Each week, concerns about the UK's decline grow stronger. But it's too easy for this to morph into self-fulfilling fatalism. Instead, we need to fill the pipeline of ideas and talent who can wield technology and policy in pursuit of progress.
So today we are launching the TxP Progress Prize, a £5000 blog prize in partnership with Civic Future and New Statesman Spotlight:
The prize has 2 goals:
Elevate ideas for UK progress
Identify emerging talent to make them real
Until 7th Jan 2024 we're inviting responses to the question: "Britain is stuck. How can we get it moving again?"
Entries will be shortlisted by TxP and Civic Future, and judged by a stellar panel:
Sarah Hunter (ARIA, Nesta)
Sam Freedman (IfG, Comment is Freed)
Richard Jones (University of Manchester)
Kanishka Narayan (Labour PPC)
Alona Ferber (New Statesman)
Munira Mirza (Civic Future)
Winners will receive up to £5000, publication in the New Statesman, and an automatic interview for the Civic Future fellowship.
Eligibility & submission details are available at txp.fyi/progress-prize. Read carefully!
This marks a new chapter for TxP, and we're enormously grateful to Emergent Ventures for supporting the prize. As we deepen and grow this community, we just want to say: thank you to everyone that's supported TxP so far, please share the prize far and wide, and we look forward to your entries!
Andrew & Tom