Pots of Possibility grants help regenerate North Lancashire’s environment and build healthy, thriving communities across Lancaster district. There are smaller Community Pots, decided by a local panel, and larger £10,000 Your Pots participatory budgeting grants, voted on by local people…
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…
This report details key learning points from an evaluation of the ‘Wee Green Grants’ PB processes led by Glasgow City Council’s Parks and Greenspace department. The evaluation finds the Wee Green Grants initiative to be another example of a strong,…
Brent residents have cast their votes to choose which projects should share a £500,000 funding pot that aims to reduce carbon emissions in the borough by at least 100 tonnes. Voting from residents took place on Saturday 29 January 2022.…
Lisbon City Council’s first-ever ‘green’ participatory budget, an initiative supported and managed by South Pole and EIT Climate-KIC’s City Finance Lab, has been allocated a €5 million budget to support climate change mitigation and adaptation projects selected by local citizens.…
Alan Thornton, project worker for Leeds Orchard Live, supported by the ‘Helping Britain Blossom’ programme, describes how they used participatory grant-making to distribute £3,000. Small scale funding perhaps, yet vital to promoting orchard groups in Leeds. “Leeds is a city…