News and Stories
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Your Pots Your Say 2024 Video
On 16th November 2024, eleven local charities and community organisations gathered in Lancaster for the second “Your Pots – Your Say” community voting day. Using the model of Participatory Budgeting, each group was bidding for between £5,000 and £10,000 of a £50,000 fund to develop their own regenerative economy project. The local community voted on…
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Launch of the Birmingham Museums’ Trust Citizens’ Jury report
On the 30th January 2025, the residents of Birmingham who took part in this citizens’ jury presented their recommendations from the past four months to the Birmingham Museums Trust leadership team, its stakeholders, as well as influencers from the broader cultural and heritage sector. The citizens’ jury produced 11 ‘roles of the museum’ that reflected…
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Report Update: Grant-making through Participatory Budgeting 2025
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 with community led organisations in mind, it is also useful for front line community development…
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Kendal Town Council’s Citizens’ Jury: Four years on
Shared Future helped to facilitate the UK’s first Town Council Climate Assembly in 2020. Since then we have been following how things are progressing, and its long term impact. In a new guest blog by Anne-Marie Sanderson, Projects Officer at Kendal Town Council, we can see that it is still making a difference. In 2020…
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Samuel Augustine joins our Associates pool
From January 2025 we are losing a valuable part of our core team. However Samuel will keep connected, as the latest member of our Associates pool. Samuel joined us back in May 2023 and, over the past 18 months, became an integral part of our team, contributing to our mission of improving democratic practices in…
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“Your Pots” Participatory Grantmaking in Lancaster District (Round 2 / 2024)
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 are chosen by the general public through a participatory budgeting process. On 16th November, eleven…
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