Sheffield has been longlisted to become UK City of Culture 2029. This is an exciting opportunity to celebrate everything that makes our city special and to share Sheffield's stories, creativity and communities with the rest of the UK!

As part of the next stage of the process, we're asking people across Sheffield to share their ideas, experiences and ambitions for culture in our city.

The survey takes around 5-10 minutes to complete, and you can answer as many questions as you like/are able.

The deadline for submissions is 30 July 2026.

Please only fill in this survey once you have completed the activities lined out in the Community Conversation Toolkit.

What Facilitators Should Send Back

Please submit key Insights for each activity. Please include:

• As much detail as you can
• Participants own words or phrases where possible
• Any challenges or barriers raised by participants 
• Memorable quotes that help bring participants' ideas to life

Do not feel you have to summarise responses, or create points of agreement from participant’s responses. We are as interested in the conflicts and divergences as much as clear signals.

There will be an option to upload:

• Photographs of workshop outputs
• Drawings/creative outputs

Thank you!

Thank you for helping shape Sheffield's City of Culture 2029 bid.

By taking part, you're contributing to a city-wide conversation about Sheffield's future and helping ensure that the ideas, experiences and ambitions of people across our neighbourhoods and communities are reflected in the bid. We can’t promise that your ideas will make it into the final bid, but we can promise it will be read and carefully considered by the bidding team.

Together, we're exploring how culture can help Sheffield become an even more creative, connected, welcoming, sustainable and opportunity-rich city for everyone.

Please only fill in this survey once you have completed the activities lined out in the Cultural Conversation Toolkit.

What Facilitators Should Send Back

Please share with us:

• As much detail as you can
• Participants' own words, memorable quotes or phrases where possible
• Any challenges or barriers raised by participants 

Do not feel you have to summarise responses, or create points of agreement from participant’s responses. We are as interested in the conflicts and divergences as much as clear signals.

There will be an option to upload:

• Notes
• Post-it outputs
• Images
• Drawings
• Diagrams

Thank you!

Thank you for contributing to Sheffield's City of Culture 2029 journey.

Your ideas will help shape a vision for Sheffield that reflects the city's creativity, ambition, communities and future aspirations, while contributing to the wider conversation about what kind of city Sheffield wants to become. We can’t promise that your ideas will make it into the final bid, but we can promise it will be read and carefully considered by the bidding team.

Please only fill in this survey once you have completed the activities lined out in the Young People's Conversation Toolkit.

What Facilitators Should Send Back

Please share with us:

• As much detail as you can

• Participants own words or phrases where possible

• Any memorable quotes that help bring participants' ideas to life

• Any challenges or barriers raised by participants

Do not feel you have to summarise responses, or create points of agreement from participant’s responses. We are as interested in the conflicts and divergences as much as clear signals. 

Where possible, please include any:

• Photographs of workshop outputs

• Drawings

Thank you for helping shape Sheffield's City of Culture 2029 bid.

By taking part, you're contributing to a city-wide conversation about Sheffield's future and helping ensure that the ideas, experiences and ambitions of people across our neighbourhoods and communities are reflected in the bid. We can’t promise that your ideas will make it into the final bid, but we can promise it will be read and carefully considered by the bidding team. 

Together, we're exploring how culture can help Sheffield become an even more creative, connected, welcoming, sustainable and opportunity-rich city for everyone.