New national PB Strategic Group launches – hear from its Chair
/WATCH: Chair Martin Johnstone introduces the National Strategic PB Group
A new group has been setup to support the development of participatory budgeting across Scotland.
The National Strategic PB Group will provide strategic direction for PB in Scotland, particularly in light of the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and the opportunities to ‘build back better’ as part of the recovery.
The group’s members represent a wide range of involvement and experience in PB, with representation from local community organisations, national third sector intermediaries, local government, national bodies, funders, third sector interfaces and academia.
The group is chaired by Martin Johnstone, who works alongside a range of different charities and organisations in Scotland and has more than 20 years’ experience of engaging with PB.
In the initial stages the group will work together to clarify the terms of reference and consider how to drive the work forward with the following considerations in mind:
What role does PB have in the Covid-19 recovery phase?
What next for PB in the short, medium and long term?
How does PB fit within broader reform of democracy and community empowerment?
For more information about the group please contact the group’s secretariat.
Group members:
Alistair Kennedy, Money for Moray
Angus Hardie, Scottish Community Alliance / Leith Chooses/ Leith Links Community Council
Anil Gupta, Katie Brown COSLA
Cit Lennox, SWAMP Glasgow
Claire McPherson, Scottish Government
David Reilly, Scottish Government (secretariat)
Elidh Brown, tsiMoray
David Allan, Scottish Community Development Centre
Kathleen Glazik, Scottish Government
Louise Macdonald, Young Scot
Martin Johnstone (chair)
Nicola Sykes, Education Scotland
Oliver Escobar, University of Edinburgh
Peter Kelly, Poverty Alliance
Tressa Burke, Glasgow Disability Alliance
Stewart Macgregor, Scottish Funders Forum
