Who We Are

We are a Community Interest Company with a pool of associates across the UK. Our aim is to provide an excellent service that makes a difference to communities and individuals and works towards a fairer, more equal society.

Our Vision

A world where everyone feels they can take action to make a better life for themselves and for others. We make progress towards a fairer, more equal society through being:

  • Reflective, modest and caring
  • Willing to share knowledge and experience
  • Active, involved and making a difference

Our Mission

To move people towards ever greater authority and autonomy. We do this by supporting them to act confidently and in community with others:

  • A community is more than the sum of its parts
  • Community is a verb – what we do, not who we are
  • Community is about taking part

Achieving our Mission

We achieve our mission by:

  • Encouraging people to engage with difficult issues
  • Facilitating exchanges between those with diverse experiences
  • Respecting there are many solutions, no right way to solve a problem, and that everyone has something to contribute

History

Through our commitment to creating a fairer and more sustainable world, we set up Shared Future in 2009.

2010

Jez hall and pete bryant join as directors

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2011

lANCASTER DISTRICT SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK LAUNCHED

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2012

1ST CITIZEN ASSEMBLY LAUNCHED: a CITIZEN JURY ON ALCOHOL IN morecombe

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2013

THE UKPB NETWORK LAUNCHED (2013 – 2022)

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2014

3 YEAR PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PROGRAMME WITH GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE

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2015

LATTICEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT IN MANCHESTER AND LANCASTER

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JAYNE MCFADYEN join as director

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A 3 year programme of support to grow PB in Scotland which led to the Scotland PB network (2015 – 2018)

2016

5 Citizen Assemblies achieved! The West Midlands Mental Health Commission Citizen Jury Launched

A 3 year programme of support to grow PB in Northern Ireland which led to the PB NI network (2016 – 2020)

Jenny Willis Joins Shared Future as an associate

2017

10 Citizen Assemblies achieved! The last of four citizen assemblies on Health and wellbeing in the Blackpool region completed. Blackpool south report

Martin Wells and Amanda Preece Joins Shared future as associates

2018

Sally Bloomer Joins Shared Future as a associate

Participatory Budgeting and Social Housing report launched

2019

Our Money our Planet (PB and citizens juries and climate change) report launched

Participatory Budgeting and Social Entprise research report launch

4 Citizen Juries on Mental health and wellbeing in Dudley

2020

20 Citizen Assemblies Completed! A citizens Jury on Climate in Warwick launched

Mara Livermore, Caroline Tosal-Suprun, Claire Mellier-Wilson and Liz Goold Join Shared Future as associates

A Youth PB project funded by Erasmus which produced the YouthPB toolkit (2020 – 2022)

2021

Andy Paice joins shared future as associate

2022

30 Citizen Assemblies Completed! The Blackburn with Darwen Peoples Jury on the climate change crisis Launches

2023

Samuel Augustine and Rowan Harris join Shared Future as officers

Supporting a regenerative economics/food Participatory Budgeting programme in Lancaster

The UKs’ first citizen panel on community safety and policing

The UKs first climate jury on rising sea levels in Bude

Evaluation report on PB projects Gwent

Design support for the Just Heat energy transition report


2024

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Meet the team

We have associates based across the UK, and our core team of directors and staff live in Lancashire, Cumbria and Greater Manchester.

Partners

We are proud to collaborate with many respected organisations

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