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Is 2022 the year for more Participatory Budgeting?

On 16 December, 2021   /   Featured, Participatory Budgeting, SFCIC Blogs  
PB

The pandemic interrupted the use of participatory budgeting (PB) programmes, but we believe there is a growing appetite to restart them post-Covid, especially grant making PB programmes. While grant making PB certainly has benefits, there are pitfalls too, says Shared Future Director Jez Hall in this end of year opinion piece. The work for Shared Future, he adds, is to suggest ways to make the transition from PB grant-making to consider the larger ‘mainstream’ budgets and reach the ideal situation where we have both.

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The three ways of a good society

On 30 March, 2021   /   Featured, SFCIC Blogs, SFCIC News  

In springtime Shared Future Director Jez Hall is feeling hopeful. In our Easter blog he reflects on the behaviours that build a good society:
Altruism, democracy and stewardship.
Relating back these big themes to the work we do at Shared Future on local democracy, climate change and to support mutual aid. And it all started with a dream.

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Climate Assemblies and Juries: A people powered response to the climate emergency

On 15 August, 2020   /   Citizens Inquiries, Climate Change, Featured, SFCIC News, SFCIC Reports, SFCIC Resources  
Leeds Climate Change Jury

With funding from the Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN), an ESRC supported network that brings together the research community and decision-makers in the public, private and third sectors, Shared Future CIC has published a guide for local authorities and other bodies. The guide aims to support local authorities and other bodies thinking of commissioning a citizens’ assembly or jury. It considers how such processes might address the climate emergency, what is involved and approaches to design and delivery.

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