Join the two day convention and take part in our workshop ‘The City of Empaville’ We are proud sponsors of The Peoples Powerhouse ‘This is the North convention’ and invite you to join us at the convention on Wednesday 29th – Thursday 30th November 2023. And whilst
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Youth PB is a process in which young people have a say over the spending of public funds in a school or community setting. This short video animation was produced by the Participatory Budgeting Youth Accelerator Project for the launch of its Youth PB Toolkit.
Read more →Apply now for a ‘Your Pots’ grant of £5000 to £10,000 to help your 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 North Lancashire. It is part of Closing Loops,
Read more →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 growing our participatory budgeting work, as well
Read more →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 of community empowerment, it focusses primarily on
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Alan Budge reflects on how he got into PB, his highlights and advice for making participatory processes sustainable. After more than 25 years promoting PB, there is a lot to say. Alex King, Shared Future’s communications lead, asked the questions.
Read more →Youth PB is a process in which young people have a say over the spending of public funds in a school or community setting. This short video animation was produced by the Participatory Budgeting Youth Accelerator Project for the launch of its Youth PB Toolkit.
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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Sharing the learning from the 2 year Youth PB Accelerator Project. On Thursday 17th March 2022 at 10am UK time. Join practitioners and participation experts to discover what we learnt through researching the experiences of young people, in school and in the community, when given control over a participatory budget.
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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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