The Preston People’s Climate Jury offered 30 Preston residents a chance to have their say on how to tackle climate change across the city and make recommendations to local leaders about how the city should act in response. Shared Future was…
The Local Climate Engagement Programme (LCE) aimed to help ensure that the UK can reach its net zero target. It provides local authorities and their partners in England with support to undertake or commission high quality, inclusive public engagement in…
Ensuring Local Energy Benefits: In 2023, working with Shared Future’s facilitators and supported by funding from the Scottish Government, Regen, an independent not for profit with a mission to transform the world’s energy systems for a zero carbon future, conducted…
The Bude Area Community Jury, which was commissioned by Bude Climate Partnership, brought together 34 citizens aged 16 to 86 from across the wider Bude area to answer the question: ‘‘How can we respond to a changing climate, including sea…
In 2023 we supported ‘Your Pots’, which offered grants of £5000 to £10,000 to help regenerative enterprise or zero-waste initiative grow into something great. The Pots of Possibility fund supports ideas for developing a zero-waste, circular and regenerative economy in…
As Shared Future grows and takes on new projects and challenges we have been recruiting two new staff members. We have recruited Samuel to focus on our comms and outreach, particularly growing our participatory budgeting work, as well as supporting…
This new guide and toolkit reflects on recent experiences of Participatory Budgeting (PB) within the Gwent area of Wales, from early 2020 to January 2023. Produced by Shared Future, following qualitative research in Gwent, and building on our long experience…
The Shipley Town Council Citizens’ Jury is an example of a deliberative process, similar to a Citizens’ Assembly, but smaller. It was commissioned by Shipley Town Council with support from a National Lottery ‘Together for Our Planet’ grant. Shared Future…
At the beginning of 2023 Shared Future was involved in designing and facilitating the London Borough of Wandsworth’s Citizen Assembly on Air Quality. The Assembly was the fruition of the new administration’s manifesto pledges to hold a Citizens Assembly, to…
At Shared Future we feel it’s good to push the use of public deliberation into new areas, to solve new challenges. That could be about challenging “institutional power” through mini-publics. Or democratising spaces where only a few people seem to…