Schools play a central role in developing the life-skills and confidence of young people. Participatory budgeting (PB) is a proven deliberative process that can inspire, empower and engage young people in a cooperative, democratic and purposeful way. Bringing the two together has many positive benefits for schools, for society and for young people. In the… Read More
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Involving young people through Participatory Budgeting
Our Money, Our Planet. Participatory Budgeting and the Green New Deal
Participatory Budgeting(PB) enables people to make their community better, starting with issues that concern us all. The biggest concern we face as a society is climate change. In a new blog featured on the Shared Future CIC’s website Alan Budge connects PB and climate change. We feature some highlights below. In August 2018, Greta Thunberg,… Read More
PB and Social Isolation: New blog by Jez Hall
A new blog by Jez Hall, published on the Shared Future CIC website outlines why he thinks PB and reducing social isolation go together. As Jez says in his blog: "Recently I’ve been coordinating a citizen inquiry on elderly care at home, where social isolation is a key emerging theme to promoting well-being and preventing… Read More
Your say, your way in Luton funds £133,000 of community initiatives
Your Say, Your way is Luton Councils long running Participatory Budgeting initiative. It’s all about the council, police, Luton Clinical Commissioning Group, fire service and voluntary and community groups working together in a joined up, cost effective and supportive way to involve all citizens and respond to local issues by listening to your views. As… Read More
Young People undertake Participatory Budgeting in North Ayrshire
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
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
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
Can Children Take Part in PB?
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
Seattle’s $700,000 youth focussed Participatory Budgeting
Youth Voice, Youth Choice is a Participatory Budgeting (PB) process in which Seattle youth will democratically decide how to spend $700,000 of the City’s budget. This initiative began here in July 2015 when Seattle Mayor Murray and former Councilmember Nick Licata announced the launch of a citywide youth PB process. Youth Voice, Youth Choice is… Read More
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
