New Directions: Evolutions in Youth Participation Blogs
The role of young people as independent actors in their own right, able to define and become architects of their future has changed over the years. In thinking this through,…
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The three ways of a good society
In springtime Shared Future Director Jez Hall feels hopeful. In our Easter 2021 blog he reflected on the behaviours that build a good society: Altruism, democracy and stewardship. Relating back these big…
Kendal Citizens Jury on Climate Change
What should Kendal do about climate change? That was the challenge tackled by a diverse group of local residents of Kendal during the summer and autumn of 2020. Commissioned by Kendal Town Council and facilitated by Shared Future, we believe the Kendal Climate Change Jury was unique in being both the first fully online Climate Change Jury in the UK and also by the way it mobilised citizens through a crowdfunding campaign.
Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast: Participatory Budgeting
The Reasons to be Cheerful podcast, hosted by Ed Miliband MP and Geoff Lloyd recently featured Participatory Budgeting. Ed and Geoff were talking about a BIG idea. One that’s close to Shared Future’s heart. In episode…
Annual Review 2020 – Shared Future
In this Annual Review of 2020, we recount our work in what was an extraordinary year. Shared Future CIC is a leader in the field of deliberative democracy and public…
Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast: Sortition, Climate Change and Citizens Assemblies
Shared Future’s Pete Bryant featured in a Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd. The podcast was originally aired on the 18th May 2020. Episode 139 of this…