Greta Thunberg began her campaign of school strikes aged 15. But in the UK she would need to wait another three years to be deemed mature enough to cast her vote. Greta’s story is indicative of the challenge of young people’s meaningful involvement in climate change policy
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The report detailing the youth group process and its findings is available here. Young people are highly aware of the threat to their futures from climate change yet are rarely able to influence the ‘gatekeepers’ of climate emissions – those decision makers in Cumbria whose strategies and
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In 2020, 35 residents from Cheshire and Merseyside were recruited to take part in the Cheshire and Merseyside Alcohol Inquiry.
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The Citizens’ Panel will deliberate on what government and people can do to address climate change in their homes.
Read more →For the financial year 2021-22, Winsford Town Council made a decision to allocate £25,000 to support a pilot Participatory Budgeting process. Additional funding was also made available to cover advice and support costs to the project; including an evaluation report by Shared Future associate Alan Budge of PB Partners.
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A new paper examining Shared Future’s Leeds Climate Change Citizens Jury highlights the co-benefits of deliberation, writes SF Director Jez Hall. Local authorities wanting to achieve meaningful carbon reduction, are increasingly turning towards public engagement. Shared Future is part of this, having delivered a wide range of
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In these times of deepening democratic deficit, with trust in government at an all time low and social inequality spiralling, we believe it is more important than ever to place people at the centre of the big issues facing society — from mitigating climate breakdown, to social
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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 Local Climate Engagement Programme will work with local authorities from across England and the political spectrum to deliver high-quality, inclusive public engagement projects on climate policy.
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The Social Housing Tenants’ Climate Jury saw 30 social housing tenants from across the North meet online over 10 weeks between July and September 2021. The report was released on the 2nd Nov 2021
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