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  • The Greater Manchester Combined Authority Participation Playbook

    In November 2025 the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) launched its Live Well Participation Playbook. Shared Future wrote the section on participatory budgeting, as well as contributing towards the launch event, opened by Mayor Andy Burnham. “What is the antidote to alienation?” So said GM Mayor Andy Burnham rhetorically, at the launch of the Participation…

  • Energising Britain: Impacts from the Cumbria Climate Assembly

    A new Government Policy Paper, by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, has featured the work of the Climate Cumbria Assembly. The policy report for “Energising Britain: Your voice in our Clean Energy Superpower Mission” promotes a new government backed public participation plan. Released on the 3rd December 2025, it aims to ensure…

  • Your Pots 2025 Participatory Budgeting: Now with added online voting

    Your Pots 2025 community grants build a regenerative economy in Lancaster District. The third annual ‘Your Pots – Your Say’ community voting day was held at The Storey in Lancaster on 15th November, and it was an energising event full of enthusiasm, great connections and hope. And, as in previous years, the Closing Loops partnership…

  • Cumbria Climate Assembly, and What Happened Next

    When the Cumbria Climate Assembly concluded its deliberations and published its recommendations, the work could easily have ended there. But due to the passion and commitment of residents involved in the assembly, it hasn’t. At Shared Future, we believe the energy, commitment and legitimacy of assembly members should not be lost. That’s why, since the…

  • Democracy: More than an X on a ballot?

    The International Day of Democracy provides “an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world”. So says the UN on its international Day of Democracy webpage. How are we all doing then? If we have read a newspaper recently, or viewed the latest news channels… then not so well. But maybe hope is…

  • The Green PB Organisers Network

    Shared Future CIC is using funding from the Network For Social Change Charitable Trust (NSCCT) to establish mentoring, advice and support for a new network of Green Participatory Budgeting Organisers. Launched in May 2025 we have now begun the programme, with participants from across the UK. Time is running short to protect our planet and…

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