Fellows Festival 2025: the power of connection

Join our flagship annual event celebrating compelling new voices, fresh ideas and optimism for the future.

Fellows Festival is the RSA’s flagship annual event celebrating compelling new voices, fresh ideas and optimism for the future.

With events taking place in several locations worldwide, 2025 promises to be the biggest Fellows Festival yet.

The theme of this year’s festival is ‘The Power of Connection’. The events will bring together the leading voices from across the cultural, media, policy, civil society, business, and social and community enterprise sectors.

You don’t have to be an RSA Fellow to attend the 2025 festival, so join the world’s greatest minds and book now to support a future where everyone can thrive.

The theme of this year’s Fellows Festival could not be timelier. At the very point the world is more connected than ever, the social glue binding it together has rarely been weaker. Social capital should be the golden thread that runs through all public policy, and the Fellows Festival 2025 will place social action at the heart of the international agenda.

Andy Haldane

CEO, the RSA

The London Fellows Festival 2025 will take place at RSA House and be streamed online on Saturday, 17 May, from 11am to 5pm.

Events will also be hosted across the UK between 15 and 17 May in six locations: Bath, Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester, with global locations including Dublin, Osaka, Tokyo and Toronto.

Join us on 17 May at RSA House in London to hear from:

Baroness Hilary Armstrong (Labour peer and former minister for social exclusion)
Patrick Hurley (MP for Southport)
Lucy Musgrave RDI (Director, Publica)
John Costi (artist)
Mo Isap (CEO, IN4 Group)
Baroness Claire Fox (Founder, Academy of Ideas)
Julie Etchingham (Journalist, ITV)
Will Snell (Chief Executive, Fairness Foundation)
Lauryn Mwale (author, Young Fellow)
Amy Vaughan (Executive Director, Battersea Arts Centre)
Myriam François (journalist, filmmaker and writer)

Ollie Olanipekun (Co-founder, Flock Together)
Luke Tryl (Director, More in Common)
Morag Myerscough RDI (artist)
Matt Leach (Chief Executive, Local Trust)
Tony Clements (Chief Executive, Ealing Council)
Michael Kenny (Director, Bennett Institute of Public Policy)
Adarsh Ramchurn (Founder, Ethnically)
Vic Goddard (Principal, Passmores Academy)
Lucy Heller (CEO, Ark)
Shaheen Sayed (Head of Accenture UK, Ireland and Africa)
Peter Hyman (Founder, School 21)

Get involved in Fellows Festival 2025

Learn more about the London Fellows Festival 2025 event and secure your ticket today.

Book now

Early-bird tickets start from just £20 and are available until midnight on 30 March (regional variations apply). Standard ticket pricing starts on 31 March, so don’t miss out.

National and international regions

In the spirit of connection, regional, national and international events will be hosted across the globe, featuring keynote speakers addressing ‘the power of connection’. The Fellows Festival 2025 will connect the world’s greatest minds with the issues of the day.