Over the last few months we have been busy preparing new and updated resources related to Participatory Budgeting. We want to give you a brief overview of what’s available, and where to find them on our website. Choose for Cheetham…
đź’Ą Youth find their voice through Participatory Budgetingđź’Ą Loving the video from Choose for Cheetham, where young people and applicants voted on ÂŁ230,000 funding (yes, you read that right… ÂŁ230K) for youth development activities in Cheetham Hill. Led by Young…
100+ children and young people. 21 youth organisations. £200,000 up for grabs. What could go wrong? Not a lot it seems. Shared Future were happy to support Choose For Cheetham 2025, after the steering group decided to use participatory budgeting…
On 16th November 2024, eleven local charities and community organisations gathered in Lancaster for the second “Your Pots – Your Say” community voting day. Watch what went on. Using the model of Participatory Budgeting, each group was bidding for between…
Our resource for grant making through participatory budgeting has had a make-over. Refreshed and released at the beginning of January 2025, it has been updated to add new content, fix broken links, and reflect Shared Future’s current branding. Specifically written…
Pots of Possibility grants are designed to regenerate the environment and build healthy, thriving communities across the Lancaster district. They consist of smaller “Community Pots” grants, which are awarded by a panel, and larger “Your Pots” grants, where successful projects…
Our third blog on taking an ecosystem approach to democracy. Shared Future director Jez Hall concludes a short series of think pieces on tackling the crisis in our democracy, by taking an ecosystem approach. Whether it’s the climate emergency, financial…
Paris has established the largest Participatory Budget in Europe. In the 2024 year residents of Paris have again been invited to vote on projects, with voting running until the end of September 2024. Climate and environmental improvements have always featured…
A new book, detailing why Participatory Budgeting is an important innovation in citizenship education was published this month. Shared Future director Jez Hall contributed a chapter to Educating for Democracy: The Case for Participatory Budgeting in Schools, available from Edward…
In this second blog on building an effective citizen-led and responsive democracy, Shared Future director Jez Hall reflects further on how to address the current crisis in our democracy by taking an ecosystem approach. One that designs and then blends…