Report
UK civic space: what is happening? 2025-2026
Over the past ten months, Bond has continued to track and analyse changes to civic space in the UK. This our third and final annual report identifying trends across UK civic space.
Civic space
What is happening to UK Civic Space? Trends and analysis from 2025 – 2026
Our latest report, the third and final in its series, identifies trends across UK civic space that are shaping the environment for civil society in the UK. Bibusa Musukwa tells us more.
Report
How to create an enabling environment for civil society in the UK
Civic space in the UK has declined dramatically in recent years as successive governments have eroded protest rights and placed stricter limits on other forms of activism and campaigning. Civil society has spoken out against the restrictions, attempting to halt and ultimately reverse them. But are there other ways to improve our civic space so that it is more open and enabling in the future?
Civic space, democracy and human rights in 2025
After yet another year of global unrest and shrinking civic space, Bond’s Rowan Popplewell takes us through how civil society and civic space has been under fire throughout 2025, and offers a message of solidarity.
Webinar
What the crime and policing bill means for protest rights
The Crime and Policing Bill is back in parliament after a summer break that saw thousands on the streets in protests. Here’s what you need to know about Labour’s first piece of legislation with measures that will further restrict the right to protest.
Civic space and international development: 10 things international NGOs can do to protect civic space and show solidarity
In this second blog, we’ll look at 10 different ways UK-based NGOs can stand in solidarity with those impacted, both here in the UK and overseas, and even take preventive action to anticipate and mitigate threats to civic space.
Civic space and international development: how restrictions on civil society in the UK and globally undermine social change
This blog, the first in a two-part series, will look at what is happening to civic space and how its impacting international development. In the second part we will look what international NGOs can do to help strengthen civic space.
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UK civic space: what is happening? 2024-2025
Bond has continued to track and analyse changes to civic space in the UK over the last 12 months. We have identified nine new trends which we believe are shaping the environment for civil society in the UK.