The Shipley Town Council Citizens’ Jury is an example of a deliberative process, similar to a Citizens’ Assembly, but smaller. It was commissioned by Shipley Town Council with support from…
At the beginning of 2023 Shared Future was involved in designing and facilitating the London Borough of Wandsworth’s Citizen Assembly on Air Quality. The Assembly was the fruition of the…
At Shared Future we feel it’s good to push the use of public deliberation into new areas, to solve new challenges. That could be about challenging “institutional power” through mini-publics.…
In 2022 we embarked on a bold experiment. To train and support a locally run climate themed Citizens’ Jury. This was very different from our normal ‘hands on’ approach, and…
We believe that young people should have a voice in shaping their future through participatory democracy. That is why we took part in a joint project, funded by Erasmus+, working with…
In our Annual Review of 2022, we recount some of our work in an extraordinary year. 2022 has been a year like no other. Economic, environmental and political turmoil defined…