A guest blog by Susan Ritchie, describing her recent visit to China to exchange learning on PB. The Invitation PB Partners supports Participatory Budgeting as a method of improving democracy, community engagement, and wider social justice across the UK. PB in all of its forms (of which there are many emerging) enables communities or organisations… Read More
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Mainstreaming Participatory Budgeting: Ideas for delivering PB at Scale
This briefing has been produced in response to Scotland’s Community Choices programme and aims to support public sector organisations wishing to develop ‘mainstream’ Participatory Budgeting(PB) initiatives. It complements the recent Guide to Participatory Budgeting Grant-making released in September 2016 It is relevant to any organisation working in the UK with an interest in furthering democratic… 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
Student led Participatory Budgeting develops in USA and the UK
Universities and schools are not immune to the Participatory Budgeting bug. In a recent article on the Nation website there was a report on an initiative in New York. Student Organization for Democratic Alternatives (SODA) is pressing to bring the process to the City University of New York, one of the nation’s largest public universities… 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
RSA sets up the Citizens Economic Council
Though not quite participatory budgeting, the RSA’s new Citizens Economic Council project is certainly inspired by it. In the prospectus for the Citizens Economic Council research was undertaken on PB in Porto Alegre, seen as the founding example of a worldwide phenomena. The RSA prospectus makes the case for why we need a better and… Read More
Seattle Youths Vote to Spend Nearly $300,000 of City Budget on Homelessness
In an earlier article on this site we described the $700,000 Seattle youth PB process. Since then its been reported that $300,000 of that money, nearly 50%, went on initiatives to help reduce the plight of homeless people in the city, including young homeless. The process started in January with several assemblies where the public… Read More
Guidance on E-PB from the PB Unit
One of the jobs the UK PB Network does is save and make available the valuable work done on PB over many years. So we re-publish many toolkits produced in the days of the the PB Unit, that ran from 2008 to 2012. One of these, not previously on this site is the first coherent… Read More
Buckinghamshire’s Area Forums using PB
In Buckinghamshire, some Local Area Forums have held ‘community budgeting’ schemes over the past few years. These schemes have taken place in Aylesbury, Amersham and Wendover. To see the details of the projects that have benefited from this community budget money, view the previous years’ reports. Its unclear if the project is continuing in 2016…. Read More
Your Salix, Your Say: PB and Social Housing
Housing associations and social housing providers have been using PB for many years. This is just one example, from 2015, run by Salix Homes in Salford. Since it began five years ago, the initiative has channelled £157,000 into the local community and supported 75 local projects. If you lived on a Salix Homes estate or… Read More
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