For hosts — Come Visit Us

If you don't show people
the reality of your life,
someone else will.

Come Visit Us is looking for ordinary Muslim people living in the UK to open their time — and their conversation — to people who've simply never had the chance to meet someone like them.

Register as a Host

The question worth asking

"Somewhere right now, a newspaper is explaining what you believe. A politician is describing what you value. An algorithm is deciding which version of your life reaches people who have never met you."

And you are not in the room.

Most people's understanding of Muslim British life comes from two places. The news — which, by its nature, reports the exceptional and the dramatic, not the ordinary and the everyday. And social media — which rewards performance and controversy, not reality.

The result is that millions of people in this country carry a picture of your life — your faith, your family, your values, your humour — that was drawn by someone who has never sat across a table from you.

That is not their fault. They have had no other frame of reference. But you can give them one. And it costs almost nothing — a cup of tea and an honest conversation.

Why your
presence
matters.

When you become a Come Visit Us host, you are not a spokesperson. You are not representing a community, a faith, or a political position. You represent only yourself.

That is the point. Your guest is not meeting "a Muslim." They are meeting you — with your specific job, your particular family, your opinions, your cooking, your sense of humour, and the specific, ordinary texture of your daily life.

One honest conversation does more than a thousand articles.

  • You already know the reality. The gap between how Muslim life is portrayed and how it is actually lived is enormous. You are on the right side of that gap.
  • Your guest is not an adversary. They are simply someone who has not had the chance to know you yet. Most people, when they actually meet, find they have more in common than they were led to believe.
  • The alternative is silence. If you leave the telling of your story to others, the stories that get told will be the ones that serve other people's interests — not yours, and not the truth.

Practical and low-commitment

What being a host actually means

This is not a formal programme. It is a conversation. Here is the whole process.

1
Register on Come Visit Us

A short profile, a one-off £1 registration fee, and a brief wait for admin approval. That is it.

2
We match you with a guest

An ordinary person — curious to meet someone from a different world. Guests are matched randomly. There is no agenda on their side.

3
You meet somewhere public

A café, a restaurant, a walk in the park. Always somewhere public for the first meeting. You choose the venue.

4
You have a real conversation

Open, frank, without a script. You decide what you share and how much. There is no brief and no audience.

You are in control. You decide when you are available, how often you host, and the pace of every conversation. You can host once and never again, or become a regular host. There are no obligations beyond the meeting itself.

See the full step-by-step host walkthrough, with video →

The question is not
whether it matters.
It is whether you will.

You know the reality of your life. You know the gap between that reality and the version of it that circulates in the media, in politics, in the assumptions of people who have simply never had the chance to meet you. Come Visit Us gives you a direct way to close that gap — one honest conversation at a time.

Register as a Host

One-off £1 registration · Takes five minutes · You're in control