Funding event - Education

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Notes from the funding workshop of the March 20 2024 PB Learning Event on Funding:

Breakout – PB in Education 

Involving target group for PB process right from the very beginning through consultation and involvement was really important to a successful process 

  • It’s important to have a variety of ways to vote – online ( eg Engage Stirling and Young Scot)  - and in person/physical voting slips

  • Working with key partners – CLD and youth services is crucial – to reaching young people and families in the community, not just a school setting  

  • PB is an important tool to enable participation in decision making and democracy – a means to an end not an end in itself.  PB results in so much more than just allocating budgets

  • PB was a powerful tool which resulted in better ideas for the budget spend than teachers would have come up with and stronger partnerships to deliver the projects – this was achieved through the investment of time in building relationships and inclusions and involvement of partners within the process itself

  • PB can feel like it’s on a shoogly peg – carrot and stick are important to keep it on the agenda 

  • It can be difficult to engage with young people in PB from a community perspective and it is important to ensure young people were able to take part in community PB processes 

  • Schools are busy, Headteachers are busy – it's important to make it easy for schools to engage in a PB process – support of CD Workers/Youth Workers to make that happen and support engagement processes is crucial.   

  • Resourcing community development support to build capacity of all partners to engage in a process and involving the community right from the beginning is important to a successful process but this is the part of PB that is most difficult to resource/fund