Welcome

Updated June 2023

Welcome to the Salisbury Democracy Alliance Webpage.  We are a group of people and organisations dedicated to bringing deliberative democracy to the city.  We aim to provide citizens with the time, space and capacity to engage in free and equal dialogue.  We began in 2017 with the Salisbury Democracy café, which meets in Salisbury Library every second Saturday in the month and has been extremely successful.  We now want to create the city’s first Citizens’ Assembly, which will involve randomly selecting a representative group of people to deliberate on an important local issue and make recommendations to our councils. 

We have organised two Talkshops the first of which was instrumental in establishing the Salisbury EcoHub which has a stall in Salisbury Market place. A second was held in May 2023 and we may follow up with a second meeting to progress some of the ideas which emerged from that.

We are supported by the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)

There is no membership fee at present and we welcome new members and supporters. Contributions are invited at our meetings to help with our costs.

Democracy Café

Democracy Café is held once a month on the second Saturday of the month. It takes place in the Library here in Salisbury starting at 10 am and lasts 2 hours. Elsewhere on this site you will find write-ups of these cafés to give you a flavour of what they are about.