In a recent article, Third Force News, the ‘voice of the Scotland’s third sector’ reports a commitment from the SNP to extend the role of participatory budgeting(PB) to 1% of Glasgow City Council’s Budget if it takes control of the city in upcoming elections. In a city with a population of around 600,000, that is… Read More
Videos
Short videos about PB in the UK and worldwide
Aberdeen youth spend £100,000 to improve their lives
As recently reported in the Aberdeen evening express: "Thousands of pounds have been handed out to Aberdeen community groups after a Dragons’ Den-style event. Aberdeen City Council had allocated £100,000 as part of its participatory budgeting process to fund new youth projects and initiatives across the regeneration areas of the city." The PB Scotland website gives… 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
PB Network Unconference video
Participants at the PB Networks October 2015 Unconference talking about why they believe Participatory Budgeting is important when public bodies engage with citizens in sharing power. Especially over the use of public money. This film includes the voices of just some of the many participants at the UK PB Network Unconference held in Birmingham in… 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
Video address by Alex Neil MSP to 2015 PB Network Unconference
Video address to the conference by Alex Neil MSP, Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners’ Rights. View report on the 2015 PB Network Unconference
Durham CC video on using PB for mainstream budget consultation
In 2013 Durham County Council were facing some tough financial decisions. So they developed a simple interactive board game to involve citizens in these difficult debates. Using a successful round of participatory budgeting distribution days, that helped Durham win recognition as a model of best practice in community engagement, they asked some of the 11,000… Read More
Participatory democracy video explores the power of active citizens worldwide
Open Society Foundations supports Goal 16 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, which could enable citizens to create more a inclusive society through participatory democracy. In this short video they explore why participatory democracy matters, and how participatory budgeting fits into the story. Exploring PB initiatives around the USA, from Boston Youth lead the change… Read More
Fund My Community: $1m dollar online PB launched by Government of South Australia
The Government of South Australia has launched a $1m online programme called ‘Fund My Community‘. That’s Australian dollars so about £500,000. The initiative is part of its ‘Your Say’ programme, and they have created a video to help promote the idea. Through Fund My Community, the Government of South Australian is using participatory budgeting to… Read More
Higher Folds We Decide: Police and community working together
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