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The PB Charter for Scotland: Making good PB happen

The PB Charter is a set of seven key features showing what a fair and high quality PB process should look like.

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Participatory budgeting: New challenges, same principles
Evaluating our PB practice: A resource to support PB learning and evaluation
Evaluating our PB practice: A resource to support PB learning and evaluation

This resource aims to support PB practitioners to develop and improve evaluation practices.  It’s web-based, easy to use and will support practice at all stages.

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Another Green PB Seal for Scotland: City of Edinburgh Council

The City of Edinburgh Council have now been awarded a Green PB Seal for their Green Participatory Budgeting Programme – “The Edinburgh Community Climate Fund” - which was launched in 2023.

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PB and Community Led Local Development Funding
Contribute to the new PB Scotland Ideas Clinic
Contribute to the new PB Scotland Ideas Clinic

Our new Ideas Clinics are collaborative, peer learning spaces to help those working around participatory budgeting (PB) and beyond to come together to share experiences, challenges and ideas.

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National PB Strategic Group publishes 2022/23 annual report

The National Participatory Budgeting Strategic Group, which was established to help guide the strategic direction for PB in Scotland, has published its annual report for 2022/23.

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Case study: PB addressing cost of living and climate in Perth and Kinross

PKC have used their recent PB to cover a number of topics, looking at cost of living and the climate recently as a small grants PB.

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PB in Schools: Doing Democracy in Craigentinney Primary School

In this article, PB Scotland’s Paul Nelis explores the work of the Ripple Project and Craigentinney Primary school where PB has been used by pupils to set their priorities.

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Need help to launch or improve a participatory programme? The Rising Stars Mentorship Program is open for new applications
Need help to launch or improve a participatory programme? The Rising Stars Mentorship Program is open for new applications

The Rising Stars Mentorship Program connects democracy practitioners with expert guidance to launch and improve participatory programs.