The task today is to dare to pursue an integral humanism that addresses the questions of our time without losing sight of its source. (Pope Leo, 2025)

We are developing a campaign around Radical Hope and what it might mean for citizens, communities and institutions shaping the public square in the UK and around the world. This campaign has emerged as a new expression of the Curating Spaces of Hope movement, as an acknowledgement of the diversification of the work from an organic movement shaped by lived experience into something much more strategic, with a rooting in political theory as well as theology and other disciplines within the humanities. In 2024, a gathering was held at Liverpool Hope University which developed the idea of Radical Hope in an Election Year. This was inspired by the fact that democratic processes were taking place in 82 countries around the world that year. We have curated the responses on this page, including a Radical Hope ebook from the gathering in Liverpool. In 2025, continued this work through the Radical Hope Podcast and a strategic conference at the Inner Temple, London, with partners from Virginia Theological Seminary (USA), exploring how to communicate radical hope in the public square in an era of poly-crisis - this led to our authentic communications charter and the establishment of strategic relationships with the St Nicholas Center for Faith and Justice (VTS) and the Susanna Wesley Foundation (UK). Into 2026 our work on Radical Hope is progressing further by o