š„ Youth find their voice through Participatory Budgetingš„ Loving the video from Choose for Cheetham, where young people and applicants voted on Ā£230,000 funding (yes, you read that right… Ā£230K) for youth development activities in Cheetham Hill. Led by Youngā¦
The Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies has released new guidance, co-authored by Pete Bryant of Shared Future. Their new report, “Supporting Members After the Climate Assembly Ends: How to Nurture Action” aims to help commissioners, organisers and funders to considerā¦
Our latest climate assembly is now underway in Cumbria. The Cumbria Climate Assembly is focussed on ensuring the voices of everyday residents are heard and can influence local climate policies. The need for impactful ways for residents to have theirā¦
100+ children and young people. 21 youth organisations. Ā£200,000 up for grabs. What could go wrong? Not a lot it seems. Shared Future were happy to support Choose For Cheetham 2025, after the steering group decided to use participatory budgetingā¦
On 16th November 2024, eleven local charities and community organisations gathered in Lancaster for the second āYour Pots ā Your Sayā community voting day. Watch what went on. Using the model of Participatory Budgeting, each group was bidding for betweenā¦
The Birmingham Museums Citizensā Jury was the first citizens jury to take place in a museum in the UK! The Jury brought together 26 people from across Birmingham that reflected the diversity of the city to answer the question: āWhatā¦
On the 30th January 2025, the residents of Birmingham who took part in this citizens’ jury presented their recommendations from the past four months to the Birmingham Museums Trust leadership team, its stakeholders,Ā as well as influencers from the broaderā¦
Our resource for grant making through participatory budgeting has had a make-over. Refreshed and released at the beginning of January 2025, it has been updated to add new content, fix broken links, and reflect Shared Futureās current branding. Specifically writtenā¦
Shared Future helped to facilitate the UK’s first Town Council Climate Assembly in 2020. Since then we have been following how things are progressing, and its long term impact. In a new guest blog by Anne-Marie Sanderson, Projects Officer atā¦
From January 2025 we are losing a valuable part of our core team. However Samuel will keep connected, as the latest member of our Associates pool. Samuel joined us back in May 2023 and, over the past 18 months, becameā¦