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Louise O’Kane and Jez Hall interviewed for German PB website

on 6 October, 2020 in England, International, News, Northern Ireland, Videos

Journalist Stephanie Grimm speaks with Louise O’Kane of Community Places and Jez Hall of Shared Future CIC on behalf of the Buergerhaushalt website, on the past present and future for Participatory Budgeting in the UK. Buergerhaushalt is Germany’s online portal for participatory budgeting and related issues, to enable anyone interested to obtain basic information on… Read More

What is Democracy Anyway: Why voting systems matter in Participatory Budgeting

on 5 July, 2019 in Blogs, International, News, Videos

In a world seemingly dominated by elections and talk of confirmatory referenda, and when we are so used to ‘first past the post’, probably quite a lot of people were confused as to how the EU election voting process worked. Was it fair? Did my vote count? Did the right outcome result? It feels timely… Read More

I got goosebumps: Community Voting Day in Haringey

on 8 March, 2019 in Case Studies, England, Neighbourhoods, News, Videos

"I thought it was very very interesting, I was excited, I got goosebumps hearing about the projects and I thought this was an amazing thing to do." So said one of the participants in the "Community Voting day", held in Northumberland Park, Tottenham in 2017. Gayle Wallace, Director of G.W Training & Consultancy Ltd managed… Read More

Video: Participatory Budgeting in Edinburgh

on 24 January, 2017 in News, Scotland, Videos

Participatory budgeting (PB) allows communities to be directly involved in decisions on the priorities and spending of public budgets. In Edinburgh, PB has been implemented since 2010. As an approach it can offer significant benefits in increasing community participation, improving the effectiveness of public spending and promoting greater community cohesion.

Participatory Budgeting in West Pokot: Hearing the voices of women

on 31 October, 2016 in International, News, Videos

A film about participatory budgeting in Kenya was first shown to an international audience at the ‘lived experiences’ session of the Engage, Think, Do! PB fringe conference held in Edinburgh in October 2016. The film showed how PB worked in West Pokot in 2016. It looked at the history of this innovative process in that… Read More

Davy Jones reports on growth of Participatory Budgeting in the UK

on 25 October, 2016 in Events, News, Videos

In a special edition of the Davy Jones politics show on RadioFreeBrighton, these are recordings of interviews he undertook while attending the International Participatory Budgeting Conference in Edinburgh in 2016. In four interviews he talks to Jez Hall from the UK Participatory Budgeting (PB) Network, Alastair Kennedy from Elgin, Kathleen Glazik, a civil servant in… Read More

2nd Generation Participatory Budgeting… reflections on mainstreaming public participation

on 24 October, 2016 in News, Scotland, Videos

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

RSA sets up the Citizens Economic Council

on 11 September, 2016 in England, News, Videos

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

Buckinghamshire’s Area Forums using PB

on 11 September, 2016 in England, Neighbourhoods, News, Videos

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

Can Children Take Part in PB?

on 11 September, 2016 in International, News, Videos, Young People

This article is an extract from the full story on the website of the Center for Urban Pegagogy in the USA and was published in 2012. How can someone who is too young to vote have a say in the future of their neighbourhood? What does civics really look like in action? In the spring… Read More

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