Sharing the learning from the 2 year Youth PB Accelerator Project. Thursday 17th March 2022 at 10am and 4pm GMT Shared Future CIC, on behalf of the Youth PB Accelerator project invites practitioners and participation experts to discover what we learnt through researching the experiences of young people, in school and in the community, when… Read More
Events
Participatory Budgeting meetings and conferences
Engaging young people in policy-making: Free webinar, 25th November
Organised by CitizenLab, this free webinar will focus on participatory budgeting and other youth engagement work in North Ayrshire Council, Scotland, as well as wider reflections on youth participation in the UK and Europe. To find out more and sign up go to: https://www.citizenlab.co/webinar More information from the CitizenLab website below Engaging young residents in… Read More
Our Money, Our Planet Workshops, June and July 2019
PB Partners are delivering a series of free events across the UK in response to the Climate Change emergency. Participatory Budgeting is an effective way for local authorities, and other statutory bodies to respond to this existential threat, and mobilise and enable communities take action themselves. Therefore they are running 4 events over June and… Read More
Sweden hosts major international conference on participatory budgeting, May 2018
There will be a PB focussed conference in Stockholm on the 17th and 18th May 2018, organised by the Swedish Association of Local Authorities (SALAR), which will see experts in participatory budgeting coming from across the world. This is a great opportunity if you want to learn more about participatory budgeting and participation in complex… Read More
New website for PB launching this month in Northern Ireland
Interested in finding out about Participatory Budgeting (PB) in Northern Ireland? And people having a say in how public money is spent locally. Then check out a new NI resource at participatorybudgetingworks.org, launching in March 2018. The Building Change Trust has made a £50,000 award to a new collaborative project which will support Participatory Budgeting… Read More
Free seminar on Participatory Budgeting in Cardiff on 18th April 2018
PB Partners held a free introduction to the principles and practice of Participatory Budgeting, delivered in conjunction with the Wales Open Government Network and ERS Cymru on the 18th April 2018. At this interactive workshop at Butetown Community Centre in Cardiff we introduced best practice in participatory budgeting (PB), built on years of experience in… Read More
The Nuts and Bolts of Participatory Budgeting: Free seminar, September 18th 2017 (AM)
This free practical masterclass on the morning of the 18th September at Manchester Metropolitan University explain some of the tools and techniques developed by PB Partners and colleagues connected to the world of Participatory Budgeting. Since it first came to the UK over 10 years ago participatory budgeting has evolved from a means to distribute… Read More
Budgeting in the Public Interest: Manchester, 18th September 2017
Taking place at the Manchester Metropolitan University, on the afternoon of the 18th September 2017. This seminar examined how we ensure public spending, and the spending of key partner agencies (including the police, health, housing and transport authorities,) or the community and not for profit sector, and even the private sector (which is set to… Read More
From small idea to big change: challenging domestic abuse and hate crime through Participatory Budgeting
A blog by Dr Andrew Fisher of MutualGain, who ran the PB and community safety workshop at Engage, Think Do! Two weeks ago I presented a workshop at the International PB conference on the use of PB in relation to community safety. This is one of those subjects where, on a Friday afternoon, you… Read More
Engage, Think, Do!… the conference report page
We’ve created this page to pull together a set of post conference blogs, presentations and resources. We had a great time at Engage, Think, Do! and want to share the love. Presentations: A highlight of the many powerpoint presentations given on the day (all PDF format): International Learning workshop presentation by Reema Patel, RSA Participatory… Read More
