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Sheffield is a city of artists, makers and do-ers, with a cultural life that is shaped at a community level and powered by the people who live and work here. We now have the opportunity to develop our bid for UK City of Culture 2029 – a chance to tell our story with confidence, celebrate what already makes the city extraordinary, and accelerate delivery of the ambitions set out in the Culture Strategy.
We have appointed a lead bid writer and are working with the team at Opus to engage with organisations and individuals working in the culture sector across the city. And on that note, we want to hear your thoughts!
This page outlines the City of Culture engagement process and how you can contribute your ideas. Be sure to toggle between the events and surveys channel to see the different ways you can get involved.
Please note that we also keep our own website updated with opportunities and news around City of Culture, so make sure you bookmarkThe Sheffield Culture Hubtoo.
Let's get into it.
Sheffield is a city of artists, makers and do-ers, with a cultural life that is shaped at a community level and powered by the people who live and work here. We now have the opportunity to develop our bid for UK City of Culture 2029 – a chance to tell our story with confidence, celebrate what already makes the city extraordinary, and accelerate delivery of the ambitions set out in the Culture Strategy.
We have appointed a lead bid writer and are working with the team at Opus to engage with organisations and individuals working in the culture sector across the city. And on that note, we want to hear your thoughts!
This page outlines the City of Culture engagement process and how you can contribute your ideas. Be sure to toggle between the events and surveys channel to see the different ways you can get involved.
Please note that we also keep our own website updated with opportunities and news around City of Culture, so make sure you bookmarkThe Sheffield Culture Hubtoo.
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 the deadline for submissions is 30 July 2026.
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.
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.
