We launched our Citizens' Forum in 2018 to improve engagement with members of the public.
Our forum consists of about 4,500 people from across the UK. Joining allows you to put your views directly to the Bank of England. It is also an opportunity for you to ask questions about our policies.
Forum members help us understand how our decisions affect the public. This allows us to complement (or cross-check) our existing data and analysis.
Anyone over the age of 18 can join our community. All our sessions are free, but you must be a member of our forum and pre-register your interest in attending in-person and online events.
When signing up, you will have to answer a series of questions, and we use your responses to make sure our events are as representative as possible.
If you would like to take part in any of these sessions, you should join our community and respond to the invitation you receive. If you are already a Citizens’ Forum member, please email Outreach@bankofengland.co.uk and tell us which session you would like to attend.
By completing this application form for Citizens’ Forums ('Forums'), the Bank of England ('we' or the 'Bank') collects personal data about you. This information includes contact details, varied demographic information and your opinions about the economy.
We collect your personal data to evaluate public understanding of the UK economy and the Bank’s mission.
We also use your data to track how representative of the UK population our membership is.
This is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority of the Bank.
To the extent to which you provide us with any special categories of personal data, including diversity information, our basis for processing this data is that it is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest.
Your opinions may also influence how we conduct the Bank’s mission as relevant to the Bank’s policy, analytical, operational, and supervisory work.
We use the information to develop our community, our events and track how representative we are of the UK population.
We use a third party provider, Microsoft Forms, which stores data in the EU, to provide the online registration form and online survey tool. For more information about Microsoft Forms' security practices and privacy policy visit Microsoft's privacy statement.
We use a third party e-communication platform called E-shot (hosted by a company called Forfront) which allows us to deliver accessible, e-marketing. E-shot, managed by Forfront, store their data in UK based servers. For more information about E-shot’s security practices and privacy policy visit E-shot’s Privacy statement.
If selected to attend one of our events, we will use your personal data to co-ordinate your attendance and for event management.
You will be required to bring proof of identity, such as a passport or driver’s licence, to ensure access is granted to the correct people. Appropriate security checks may be carried out as deemed necessary by the Bank.
Whether you attend an event or not, we will contact you with alternative engagement opportunities, such as surveys, which may be of interest to you.
Any data you choose to provide may be linked to your personal profile to help us evaluate public understanding of the UK economy and the Bank’s mission.
You have a number of rights under data protection laws. For example, you have the right to ask us for a copy of the personal data the Bank holds about you. This is known as a ‘Subject Access Request’. You can ask us to change how we process or deal with your personal data, and you may also have the right in some circumstances to have your personal data amended or deleted.To find out more about those rights, to make a complaint, or to contact our Data Protection Officer, please visit our privacy page. You can request that we no longer use your personal data, by email at outreach@bankofengland.co.uk or writing to us at the address below:
Outreach, Communications, TS-M
Bank of England
Threadneedle Street
London EC2R 8AH