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…
Originally posted on PB Scotland’s website, Paul Nelis explores the work of the Ripple Project and Craigentinney Primary school where PB has been used by pupils to set their priorities over how to spend £3,000. Supported and funded by The…
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,…
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…
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…
It is a sad but undeniable fact that post Brexit levels of hate crime have risen across some parts of the UK, most notably England and Wales. Intolerance, ignorance, prejudice and inequality have emerged as communities try to make sense…
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…
The video below is of a Participatory Budgeting (PB) event held in Blaenau Gwent in 2009. Search for more PB Knowledge