On Saturday 30th April 2016 the Edinburgh South Central Neighbourhood Partnership had over £200,000 worth of funding available for distribution in 2016/17 and residents of South Centre Voiced their Choice and decided which projects got funded. Local people had some hard choices to make but have decided which was their favourites. The money was for community grants,… Read More
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Participatory Budgeting in the UK and internationally
Participatory Budgeting, Democratisation and Open Government: The State of the Art in Europe and UK
Participatory Budgeting, Democratisation and Open Government: The State of the Art in Europe and UK. There will be a gathering of the PB Network and its partners, the Empatia programme and Brunel University London, on: Thursday 2nd June 2016, from 1.30pm until 6.30pm. Register here for your free place The PB dialogue is taking place… Read More
Boston Youth Leads the Change: Come for Pizza, stay for the power.
The PB Network has been reporting on innovations in Participatory Budgeting, and so we are pleased to read this update on Boston Youth Leads the Change on the Guardian Newspaper’s Cities webpages. As reported by Sandra Larson on the 31st March 2016: "When the city of Boston gave teenagers the power to allocate a million… Read More
Voice your Choice Scarborough… The results are in
A Voice Your Choice decision-making event was held in Scarborough on Wednesday 9 March 2016. The results are in! Residents in Scarborough came out in force to cast their votes at the sixth and final Voice Your Choice Decision-Making Event held on Wednesday 9 March 2016 at Scarborough Library. The theme for this year’s Voice… Read More
More parish councils give residents a way to have their say through PB
On the 9th April 2016 Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council, covering three villages near Keighley, North Yorkshire, will be launching a new Participatory Budgeting initiative. Around £20,000 of parish council funds will be available, split proportionally across the three villages. Ideas for how to spend the parish council’s money will be gathered following… Read More
Scottish Government starts 2016 with boost for Participatory Budgeting
A recently released statement by the Scottish Government indicates a significant boost to Participatory Budgeting (PB). This follows a commitment in the Programme for Government announced by Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland to expand Participatory Budgeting activity north of the border. Now Community Empowerment Minister Marco Biagi has announced more communities will be able… Read More
Participatory Budgeting awareness grows in Russia
We often report on PB internationally, but until now there seems to have been little awareness of PB in one of the largest countries in the world. However it seems times are changing. We increasingly pick up items from Russia such as an interview with Ilya Sokolov, director of the Budget Policy Department at Russia’s… Read More
The New York City Participatory Budgeting Rap
View the New York PB rap, produced in 2012, with music by Drew King, and created by the International Studies Film Collective – Marymount Manhattan College
Chicago Participatory Budgeting produces its own online rule book
Chicago was the first significant participatory budgeting programme in the USA. Under the guidance of Alderman Joe Moore, who was also a participant on a learning exchange to the UK in 2013 that spurred on new PB work in Scotland it has expanded and become more structured, and there is now a well developed website… Read More
State of the North report highlights how impotent citizens feel
IPPR North is the only major thinktank with a Northern base, which gives it a lot of credibility when talking about issues like a new northern renaissance. Policies like DevoManc, elected mayors, business rates reform and other measures aim to devolve power and liberate local government from over-management by Whitehall. However IPPR North believes there… Read More