As reported in the Royal Borough Observer: "parents and supporters will be able to win funds for their favourite schools’ treasured projects under a new scheme being launched by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. The Schools Participatory Budgeting Scheme will see £100,000 made available each year, split across three terms. Schools can apply… Read More
North Ayrshire residents as young as 8 years have their say
Your money, you decide – the 3 Towns on the 21st May 2016 is the date of the next voting event in North Ayrshire, where residents will choose how to spend £19,000 in their community? Local people and groups can bid for up to £700. Shortlisted projects will be pitching their ideas in order to win… Read More
Edinburgh South Central Decides on over £200,000 of public money
On Saturday 30th April 2016 the Edinburgh South Central Neighbourhood Partnership had over £200,000 worth of funding available for distribution in 2016/17 and residents of South Centre Voiced their Choice and decided which projects got funded. Local people had some hard choices to make but have decided which was their favourites. The money was for community grants,… Read More
Participatory Budgeting, Democratisation and Open Government: The State of the Art in Europe and UK
Participatory Budgeting, Democratisation and Open Government: The State of the Art in Europe and UK. There will be a gathering of the PB Network and its partners, the Empatia programme and Brunel University London, on: Thursday 2nd June 2016, from 1.30pm until 6.30pm. Register here for your free place The PB dialogue is taking place… 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
Voice your Choice Scarborough… The results are in
A Voice Your Choice decision-making event was held in Scarborough on Wednesday 9 March 2016. The results are in! Residents in Scarborough came out in force to cast their votes at the sixth and final Voice Your Choice Decision-Making Event held on Wednesday 9 March 2016 at Scarborough Library. The theme for this year’s Voice… Read More
Shining light on the well manicured hands on the public purse
This blog, written by Jez Hall for the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity at De Montfort University makes some contentious claims that might not be agreed on by all. In the blog, excerpts of which are published below, it is argued that participatory budgeting can have cost benefits that are usually ignored. "Advocates for… Read More
More parish councils give residents a way to have their say through PB
On the 9th April 2016 Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council, covering three villages near Keighley, North Yorkshire, will be launching a new Participatory Budgeting initiative. Around £20,000 of parish council funds will be available, split proportionally across the three villages. Ideas for how to spend the parish council’s money will be gathered following… Read More
Imagine: Could Participatory Budgeting work in Northern Ireland?
As part of the Imagine Belfast festival of ideas, held in March 2016, Jez Hall led a workshop exploring whether the citizens of Belfast could really influence how money was spent by Belfast City Council. The workshop was organised by the Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN), and included a mixed audience of about 30… 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
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