Shipley Town Councils celebrates its first Green PB
Shipley Town Council hosted its first Participatory Budgeting event on Saturday 27th January 2024 for their Green Grants funding programme and over 70 people attended to make their voices heard.
Seven projects were asked to present their environmental initiatives to help address the climate change emergency. Whilst the votes were counted participants enjoyed homemade soups created from produce donated though Aldi’s Neighbourly Project, established to reduce the amount of food waste.
Three finalists chosen to receive funding for a food propject, a craft project and creating a wildlife friendly bog garden. One voter said “they were all very good ideas – I would ideally like to see money going to all of them”, and the Council is now going to see what can be done to support more of the projects presented.
Read more on the Shipley TC website
Find out about their 2023 Climate Assembly that led to the idea.