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…
In 2023, People’s Budget Cleveland launched a historic ballot initiative to direct the City of Cleveland to put aside funds equivalent to 2% of the City of Cleveland’s General Fund each year towards participatory budgeting. While the vote was razor…
This was the second year of a two year funding scheme to increase access to arts, culture and heritage activities in Moray which was co-designed with the sector as part of a Participatory Budgeting process, which saw applying organisations vote…
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 new guide and toolkit reflects on recent experiences of Participatory Budgeting (PB) within the Gwent area of Wales, from early 2020 to January 2023. Produced by Shared Future, following qualitative research in Gwent, and building on our long experience…
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.…
An exciting new youth led and designed PB process was launched in 2020, across the Derry and Strabane District Council Area of Northern Ireland. Young people from across the city have been involved in shaping and designing the YOUth Making…
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…