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 workers, Town and Parish Councils or Local Authorities starting out on using Participatory Budgeting (PB). It condenses our learning from over 15 years of doing PB in the UK.

The guide includes our 10 step model for running a PB grant making programme, supported by extensive templates that you can adapt in its ‘toolbox’. It’s appendices also consider different voting methods, the values underpinning PB and proposals for scaling up PB.

Access the toolkit on our website