A ‘hot off the press’ video of a recent Police led £20,000 participatory budgeting (PB) event on the Higher Folds estate, near Wigan. One part of a wider initiative that saw PB grant making projects take place across Greater Manchester in the winter of 2014/15. That altogether distributed well over £250,000 for community projects into… Read More
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What's happening in Participatory Budgeting across England
Windsor and Maidenhead’s online rolling PB programme 2015
Online voting is now open for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead’s online PB-style neighbourhood grants process. Up to £50,000 is available in 2015 and supported by information posted on the council’s website local people are able to vote using an online survey. The neighbourhood PB scheme is geared towards assisting local residents and… Read More
One Wigan community celebrates through Higher Fold We Decide
Higher Folds is a small community trying big ideas and Saturday 17th January 2015 was a special day in the life of the Higher Folds Community Centre. Higher Folds “We Decide” became a reality and local groups really did benefit. After nine months of consulting and working with the community the first “We Decide” event… Read More
Tower Hamlets “You Decide!”
In Tower Hamlets, a Participatory Budgeting project known as “You Decide!” was carried out across the whole Borough in 2009 and 2010. The Cabinet allocated £2.38 million per year for a two year period (total of £4.76 million) with £300,000 added by the local Primary Care Trust (PCT) in year two. A total of over… Read More
180 Feock residents take part in "Your Choice"
Feock Parish Council has handed out funding to a raft of local groups, with 180 people in the area helping decide who should share the cash. Successful groups last year were the 1st Devoran Brownies, 1st Devoran Rainbows, 17th Truro Scout Group (Devoran), Devoran Village Hall, Up the Creek Theatre Productions, St Feock PALS, Devoran… Read More
Local Democracy for Everyone, Conference and workshops, 7th Feb 2015
Would you like to change one small thing (or change the whole system) to make democracy work better for all of us? This event is for everyone who has something positive to say about local democracy and for anyone who is up for a challenge. Not enough of us are interested in local decision making… Read More
Change the Grange Winners Announced
The eight projects with the highest number of votes by the community of The Grange in Runcorn were announced at an event held last night at the Grange Youth Hub by Cheshire’s Police & Crime Commissioner John Dwyer. “I was proud to announce the winning projects as they are all worthy causes covering a wide… Read More
Greater Manchester Police adopt PB to build strong community leadership
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has begun the largest scale experience of Participatory Budgeting running in the North West of England. Embracing all 11 divisions of Greater Manchester, and working closely in partnership with Councils, Housing Providers, Voluntary and Community Organisations, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Fire and Rescue Services and in some cases private sector organisations. PBPartners,… Read More
Seaham residents use Police funding to create a better community
Community groups and organisations will be able to apply to a £26,000 fund which has been secured to benefit Seaham. A £10,000 grant has come from Durham Constabulary, a further £10,000 from an Our Place grant and a neighbourhood budget of £6,000, jointly provided by Seaham councillors. The police and other agencies involved in the… Read More
Dulverton Council and Devon and Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service combine forces on Our Place
Partnership working is at the heart of successful Participatory Budgeting and this is nowhere more true in Dulverton, that has been pathfinding an ‘Our Place‘ approach to PB for many years. By combining forces with agencies like Devon and Somerset Fire Service, Dulverton was recently awarded Our Place status and is looking to develop it… Read More