Voting openned on Monday 17 February 2025 for people, young and older, living in Aberdeen’s Priority Neighbourhood Areas (North, South and Central) to select the projects they think are best suited to meet their community needs. Aberdeen City Council’s Participatory…
Over 6100 valid votes were cast across all nine council wards in the most recent PB process in Falkirk, held in February 2025. Helping 22 of the 57 community groups in the public vote secure their share of just over…
RiotFest is a long running music festival in the city of Chicago. As part of its commitment to the community that hosts this largescale but a times disruptive event, it has agreed a generous community payback scheme, in association with…
Participatory Budgeting in Belfast gives residents a direct say in the decisions that affect them. It helps generate new ideas, strengthen community spirit and direct funding to where residents think it will make a difference. The most recent participatory budgeting…
100+ children and young people. 21 youth organisations. £200,000 up for grabs. What could go wrong? Not a lot it seems. Shared Future were happy to support Choose For Cheetham 2025, after the steering group decided to use participatory budgeting…
Following last year’s online public vote, residents in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray can now find out which local eco-friendly projects will receive a share of £1million in funding from the Scottish Government’s Just Transition Participatory Budgeting (PB) Fund. Details of…
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…
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…
Communities and residents living in the Killutagh area of Northern Ireland received grants through Triangle Housing for funding for small projects. In the 2024 round they could apply for up to £1000. Triangle housing regularly uses the same format in…
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…