What We Do
Shared Future is about People Powered Participation. We’re helping citizens become more active and have increasing influence within their communities and their connected organisations.

Citizens Assembly
Shared Future are leaders in the field of Citizen Inquiries and Citizens’ Juries. We are motivated by a belief that citizens have a right to be involved in policy decision-making processes on issues of public interest.
We provide deliberative processes that involve local residents, citizens and service users in discussing, hearing evidence and making proposals around often highly contested issues of public policy.


Climate Change
Governments and organisations across the world are considering what a meaningful response to climate change looks like. As we deal with this wicked problem we need more democracy, not less. We need citizens to be at the centre of the decisions about what these policies and actions look like.
Participatory Budgeting
Participatory Budgeting is about local people making decisions directly over how local public budgets are spent. It empowers communities, gets more people involved in democracy and improves local public services.


We’re a social enterprise with a mission to support other social enterprises. We do this through projects that build a stronger social economy.
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The Greater Manchester Combined Authority Participation Playbook
In November 2025 the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) launched…

Energising Britain: Impacts from the Cumbria Climate Assembly
A new Government Policy Paper, by the Department for Energy…

Your Pots 2025 Participatory Budgeting: Now with added online voting
Your Pots 2025 community grants build a regenerative economy in…

Cumbria Climate Assembly, and What Happened Next
When the Cumbria Climate Assembly concluded its deliberations and published…

Democracy: More than an X on a ballot?
The International Day of Democracy provides “an opportunity to review…

The Green PB Organisers Network
Shared Future CIC is using funding from the Network For…
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