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December 31, 2029

The PB Charter for Scotland: Making good PB happen

December 31, 2029/ Admin

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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December 31, 2029/ Admin/ Comment
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February 24, 2025

Case study: Merkinch & South Kessock (Inverness): Your Place, Your Point

February 24, 2025/ Admin

Funded by Police Scotland, Youth Highland have been working with young people to understand more about their feelings about where they live.

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February 24, 2025/ Admin/ Comment
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October 11, 2024

Evaluating our PB practice: A resource to support PB learning and evaluation→

October 11, 2024/ Admin
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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October 11, 2024/ Admin/ Comment /Source
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June 17, 2024

National PB Strategic Group publishes 2022/23 annual report

June 17, 2024/ Admin

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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June 17, 2024/ Admin/ Comment
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March 28, 2024

PB in Schools: Doing Democracy in Craigentinney Primary School

March 28, 2024/ Admin

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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March 28, 2024/ Admin/ Comment
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February 16, 2024

Learning Event Report: How can we fund PB in Scotland?

February 16, 2024/ Admin

This PB Scotland learning event will be a chance to explore how we fund participatory budgeting (PB) and the learning we're seeing from across Scotland.

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February 16, 2024/ Admin/ Comment
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November 03, 2023

From the Resource Hub: Evaluating participatory budgeting

November 03, 2023/ Admin

We’ve brought together some of the key evaluation resources that are feature on our PB Resources Hub, as well as some examples of real PB processes.

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November 03, 2023/ Admin/ Comment
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November 03, 2023

Supporting Community- Based Evaluations Of Participatory Budgeting

November 03, 2023/ Admin

This briefing from GCPH explore things to think about when planning and evaluating a PB project.

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November 03, 2023/ Admin/ Comment
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November 03, 2023

Hear the Voice, Make the Change: Guide to evaluating PB processes

November 03, 2023/ Admin

This briefing aims to support public sector organisations wishing to evaluate their ‘mainstream’ Participatory Budgeting (PB) initiatives.  The techniques outlined here are also applicable to PB grant making programmes.

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November 03, 2023/ Admin/ Comment
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November 03, 2023

Glasgow’s Participatory Budgeting Evaluation Toolkit

November 03, 2023/ Admin

The toolkit is intended to be user-friendly and helpful for the public sector, the voluntary sector and community organisations running PB activities.

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November 03, 2023/ Admin/ Comment
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November 03, 2023

Participatory Budgeting Self-Evaluation Toolkit

November 03, 2023/ Admin

This guidance and the accompanying tools are designed to address the issue of capacity to evaluate, and also to ensure that the evaluation meets local need.

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November 03, 2023/ Admin/ Comment
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October 23, 2023

8 Steps to Delivering a Successful Small Grants PB Process

October 23, 2023/ Admin

In this article, we’re going to set out the basic steps of how to run a successful small grants PB process – and share links to some useful resources and tips.

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October 23, 2023/ Admin/ Comment
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October 19, 2023

Participatory budgeting in 60 seconds→

October 19, 2023/ Admin
Participatory budgeting in 60 seconds

A quick guide to what PB is and how it works.

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August 03, 2023

Guide to Evaluating the Wellbeing impacts of Participatory Budgeting

August 03, 2023/ Admin

This new guide and toolkit reflects on recent experiences of Participatory Budgeting (PB) within the Gwent area of Wales, from early 2020 to January 2023.

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August 03, 2023/ Admin/ Comment
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July 21, 2023

Digital Platform Ratings

July 21, 2023/ Admin

To help users decide which online participation platform to choose, People Powered have rated the leading options in three categories according to six criteria.

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July 21, 2023/ Admin/ Comment
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July 21, 2023

Guide to Digital Participation Platforms

July 21, 2023/ Admin

This guide explains key features of these civic-tech tools, shares lessons learned from users around the world, suggests best practices, and offers several practical resources to guide selection and implementation.

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July 21, 2023

Participation Playbook

July 21, 2023/ Admin

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community.

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July 21, 2023

Participatory Policy-Making Toolkit

July 21, 2023/ Admin

This toolkit provides an overview of participatory democracy practices focused on policy-making, shares the results of a participatory policy-making (PPM) process

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July 14, 2023

What is the 1% local government participatory budgeting commitment?

July 14, 2023/ Admin

The 1% PB commitment is an agreement between the Scottish Government and COSLA (which represents local authorities in Scotland) that at least 1% of local government budgets should be decided through participatory budgeting.

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July 14, 2023/ Admin/ Comment
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July 14, 2023

PB Framework - National PB Strategic Group→

July 14, 2023/ Admin
PB Framework - National PB Strategic Group

The National Participatory Budgeting Strategic Group has published a framework for the future of participatory budgeting (PB) in Scotland. The framework sets out shared intentions and ambitions for PB and, looking ahead, outlines a series of priority recommendations to be carried forward.

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PB Scotland

Participatory budgeting in Scotland.

What is PB?

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a way for people to have a direct say in how local money is spent.

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