The Preston People’s Climate Jury will provide 30 Preston residents with a chance to have their say on how we tackle climate change across the city and make recommendations to local leaders about how the city should act in response. Shared Future has been asked to facilitate the
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The Local Climate Engagement Programme (LCE) aims 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 climate decision-making to help shape their strategies,
Read more →Insights from a Peoples Panel. In 2023, supported by funding from the Scottish Government, Regen, working with Shared Future’s facilitators, conducted a People’s Panel tasked with answering the question: “The way we use energy in our homes and communities is changing, with many communities and councils developing
Read more →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 level rise, to support our community to
Read more →To bring power back and win against climate change, citizens can lead the way, one climate jury at a time. In our latest blog, by Samuel Augustine, we spoke with Wandsworth citizens to share their experience in participating in a local climate jury on air quality. Saturday
Read more →Director of Shared Future, Peter Bryant, has contributed to a new report by The Place-Based Climate Action Network and The Economic and Social Research Council, launched June 2023. The report chronicles five years of research by PCAN, highlighting key-growth indicators in place-based climate action, and the factors
Read more →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 CIC were proud to be asked to
Read more →Since the beginning of this year Shared Future has been involved in designing and facilitating the London Borough of Wandsworth’s Citizen Assembly on Air Quality. The Assembly is the fruition of the new administration’s manifesto pledges to hold a Citizens Assembly, to review its Air Quality Action
Read more →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 have convening or agenda setting powers. In
Read more →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 expectations. In our latest blog, Pete Bryant
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