North Ayrshire Council website has announced it will launch one of Scotland’s largest ever online participatory budgeting exercises exclusively for young people. From Wednesday 2nd November, around 21,000 Young people in North Ayrshire will be able to use Young Scot’s online voting platform to allocate £60,762 to youth projects in their local area. The funding… Read More
Scotland
What’s happening in Participatory Budgeting across Scotland
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
The Winner Takes It All? Opportunities for Mainstreaming Citizen Participation
The Winner Takes It All is a guest blog by Dr Andrew Fisher, who led the workshop on policing at Engage, Think, Do! international PB fringe conference in Edinburgh in October 2016. Last weeks International PB conference set the sights very high for next year. A fabulous venue, a great backdrop in Edinburgh and wonderful… Read More
Blog from the Small Grants and Mainstreaming workshops at Engage, Think, Do
This blog has been written by Alan Budge following our Engage, Think, Do conference 21st October 2016 SMALL GRANTS AND MAINSTREAM WORKSHOPS I had the pleasure of facilitating two ‘back to back’ workshops (as part of the ‘Do’ strand of the PB event in Edinburgh on Friday 21st October. ) Workshop 1, attended by about… Read More
Review of 1st Generation Participatory Budgeting in Scotland
A new paper reviewing the evidence about participatory budgeting processes in Scotland up to June 2016. Written by WhatWorks Scotland it examines the growth and development of the first generation of participatory budgeting in Scotland in order to generate insight to support the strategic and operational leadership and delivery of future participatory budgeting. Scotland has… Read More
Digital Participatory Budgeting: Opportunities and challenges
Digital PB Workshop at the International PB conference on 20th October 2016: Reflections from Susan Ritchie, Acting UK PB Network Chair and Director of MutualGain I have just left the exceptionally good international PB conference held in Edinburgh by the Scottish Government, in partnership with the PB Partners and the SCDC. Well done to all… Read More
2nd Generation Participatory Budgeting… reflections on mainstreaming public participation
Second Generation PB: Reflections on key messages from the PB Conference, Scotland: by Susan Ritchie I love this term – it’s like the phrase wave two of feminism! Marking out differences along the journey and how people change and adapt practice as they implement their thinking. I hope second generation PB will be more positive… Read More
Rural transport community led commissioning featured as model of good practice
The Uist and Barra Public Bus Service Redesign project has used innovative methods to improve service outcomes for rural communities through procuring services in a new way. By using participatory budgeting methodology the community has had the opportunity to be fully involved in the design and procurement of their bus services. Together with the use… Read More
Grant Making Through Participatory Budgeting: A ‘How To’ Guide.
Grant making through Participatory Budgeting: A ‘How To’ Guide for Community Led Organisations and community engagement workers. Launched in September 2016, this guide was written by PB Partners, at the request of the Scottish Government, to support the £2m Community Choices programme. Specifically written with community led organisations in mind but also useful for front… Read More
Scotland is Setting the Pace on Participatory Budgeting in the UK
Over the last 18 months there has been an explosion of PB activity in Scotland. Here at UK PB Network we do what we can to post significant news from north of the border. There is now also a dedicated website for news of PB in Scotland, with its own mailing list. If you are… Read More
