Child poverty initiatives implemented by Renfrewshire Council have helped boost the incomes of struggling families in Renfrewshire. Alongside a range of initiatives listed in Renfrewshire’s 2019/2020 Local Child Poverty Action Report was a reference to their participatory budgeting initiative, called…
Shared Future and the Democratic Society worked with Dundee council on “Dundee Decides”, an innovative £1.2m PB programme that ran in 2018. We provided regular strategic advice and guidance to the delivery team and also facilitated an independent review to…
How do you use Participatory Budgeting (PB) to inspire co-productive ways of working? And how do you engage in rural or urban locations and create commitment within a diverse and changing population? Hear the podcast of our discussion on PB…
Social isolation is a key requirement towards promoting wellbeing and preventing undue pressure on public services, such as costly hospital admissions. With an elderly mother of my own who is increasingly needing care at home it’s a subject close to…
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…
People from across North Ayrshire were offered the chance to stake their claim for up to £1,250 for worthy projects which will improve the lives of others. A total of £50,000 was up for grabs in the participatory budgeting event…
In June 2013, we attended yet another project’s successful PB day. The Diocese has produced a short film describing the event. Alan Budge, a Shared Future associate, had been working with the Diocese earlier in the year, supporting them in a unique…
In 2013 Durham County Council were facing some tough financial decisions. So they developed a simple interactive board game to involve citizens in these difficult debates. Using a successful round of participatory budgeting distribution days, that helped Durham win recognition…
The Academy of Urbanism is well used to reporting on the innovations that bring about an urban renaissance. In an article by Katy Hawkins the Academy now looks at participatory budgeting (PB) in the USA, the UK and more widely.…
Running over a number of years the Well London health and wellbeing initiative has been using participatory budgeting styled events to select projects for support, using money from the National Lottery and other local funding sources. Across a wide number…