PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING – What about the Outcomes?
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PB Partners are delivering training for people auditing public sector programmes or reporting on outcomes on Monday, 6 February 2017 from 10:00 to 15:00 (GMT) in Edinburgh.
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Improving mental health and wellbeing in North Ayrshire using PB
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North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership and The Scottish Government are jointly funding a £50,000 Participatory Budgeting (PB) initiative to improve mental health and wellbeing in North Ayrshire.
Read MoreComhairle Recognised for Community Engagement
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Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, the Outer Hebrides Community Planning Partnership and Hi-Trans have been recognised for the ground breaking work that has been undertaken to promote community engagement at the Government Opportunities (GO) Excellence in Public Procurement Awards Scotland 2016/17.
Read MoreNorth Ayrshire CPP Participatory Budget Pilot update
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North Ayrshire have now completed their PB pilot. The events were well supported, attracting in excess of 550 local people and community groups who took part in deciding how the £72,000 grant funding would be allocated.
Read MoreLet's crowdsource where PB is happening in Scotland
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Our goal is create a searchable database of information about past, present and future PB activity in Scotland - and you can help.
Read More5,4,3,2,1… for Ruchill & Possilpark’s participatory budgeting event
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For this event the community were invited to celebrate not only the range of community projects who applied, but also St Andrew’s day and so they enjoyed a steak pie meal, a bagpiper, a local musician and more at this fun family event which culminated in the projects receiving funding that would help them develop their ideas.
Read MoreWest Dunbartonshire - Community Budgeting in November
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As part of the "Your Community" initiative, there is £25,000 available for projects in local communities to improve neighbourhoods.
Read MoreMainstreaming Participatory Budgeting
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This guide from PB Network and PB Partners aims to support public sector organisations wishing to develop ‘mainstream’ Participatory Budgeting
Read MoreCommunity members come out in force in South Lanarkshire
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Hundreds of local residents in South Lanarkshire attended a number of ‘Community Decision Making Days’ to have their say on how funding should be allocated in their local area.
Read MoreUpcoming Partick West Community Budgeting event
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Glasgow Community Planning Partnership will be holding the latest of its Community Budgeting public engagement events in Partick on Friday 25th November 2016
Read MoreSURF PB Conference report
/Our colleagues over at SURF have produced an excellent take on the International PB Conference which we held last month.
Read MoreNorth Ayrshire's Young People take PB Lead
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North Ayrshire Council and Young Scot launch one of Scotland’s largest ever online participatory budgeting exercises exclusively for young people.
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Review of 1st Generation Participatory Budgeting in Scotland
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This What Works Scotland review of participatory budgeting (PB) in Scotland is based on an analysis of existing evidence about the PB processes that have taken place in Scotland up until June 2016.
Read More£eith Decides again
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£eith Decides has announced the results of its well-established PB process with a total of £44,184 being distributed to 24 community initiatives.
Read MorePB videos - home and abroad
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Following on from our recent international PB conference, we highlight two videos on PB - one from Edinburgh and one from Kenya.
Read MoreThe International PB Conference 2016 - Event report→
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The International PB Conference brought together more than 200 people across two days to learn about participatory budgeting (PB) and see how it can help shape democracy in Scotland and beyond.
Read MoreReview of participatory budgeting in Scotland
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What Works Scotland has published a review of participatory budgeting (PB) in Scotland, based on an analysis of existing evidence about the PB processes that have taken place in Scotland up until June 2016.
Read MorePB in Action: Uist and Barra bus project
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As featured on the Innovation Exchange website, Western Isles Council has used PB to engage withcommunities in Uist and Barra around the redesign of the local public bus services.
Read MoreNew PB grant making 'how to' guide available
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Specifically written with community led organisations in mind but also useful for front line workers or local authorities starting out on using Participatory Budgeting, this guide lays out a simple 10 step process for PB grant making, from forming a planning group right through to monitoring and evaluation.
Read MoreGrant making through Participatory Budgeting
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Specifically written with community led organisations in mind but also useful for front line workers or local authorities starting out on using Participatory Budgeting, this guide lays out a simple 10 step process for PB grant making, from forming a planning group right through the monitoring and evaluation.
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