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. Rowan has replaced Maria as our project officer. We have also recruited Samuel to focus on our comms and outreach, particularly…
Director of Shared Future, Peter Bryant, has contributed to a new evaluation report by The Place-Based Climate Action Network and The Economic and Social Research Council, which was launched in June 2023. Their report chronicles five years of research by…
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…
In 2022 we embarked on a bold experiment. To train and support a locally run climate themed Citizens’ Jury. This was very different from our normal ‘hands on’ approach, and it felt risky to experiment. But the rewards exceeded our…
In our Annual Review of 2022, we recount some of our work in an extraordinary year. 2022 has been a year like no other. Economic, environmental and political turmoil defined the last 12 months. In our 2021 report we began…
We’re really excited to share the recommendations and report of the Blackburn with Darwen People’s Jury on Climate Change, on behalf of Blackburn with Darwen Council. The purpose of the People’s Jury was so that residents could have their say…