Your Voice Your Choice: Empowering Local Communities
/St Madoes and Kinfauns Parish Church and Ayr St Columba Lochside Parish Church recently hosted participatory budgeting events.
Read MoreSt Madoes and Kinfauns Parish Church and Ayr St Columba Lochside Parish Church recently hosted participatory budgeting events.
Read MoreSouth Glasgow Big Grant Giveaway Event: Thursday 18th Jnauary
Read MoreScotland now has ‘Community Empowerment' legislation, growing co-production and participatory budgeting (or ‘community choices') movements, and communities who are have shown the difference that community ownership of assets can make for making local places better.
However, many of us who are working hard to change things locally can feel cut off from sources of support and connections that could help.
This is an invitation to a day of advice, inspiration and connection for people who have practical advice to offer, people who are starting off and eager to connect to support - and anyone in between.
The day will be hosted by the Ingage team in Scottish Government in partnership with national community support organisations.
What's The Purpose?
The purpose of this event is to offer people
How Will It Work?
This is a ‘pop-up' event offering a diverse range of workshops and conversations through the day.
It is being co-hosted by the Ingage Team in Scottish Government and colleagues from diverse networks supporting empowerment work.
Who's It For?
This is the right event for you if
About the Ingage team in Scottish Government - host of this event in partnership with community support organisations
The relationship between citizen and state in Scotland is changing; Ingage is helping people in public service to change with it.
The First Minister has set out a clear ambition to reform public services and to empower people and communities, recognising the need to make government ‘more open and accessible to Scotland's people than ever before'. We are at a crucial point in that transformation of Scotland's public services.
The Ingage Team was formed, based in Scottish Government, to support us to meet these aims. The team is small, but is working within Scottish Government and across Scotland, with public services and communities, to enable, support and grow our capability and capacity to transform. We bring together colleagues with a range of experiences of working with and in different public services and settings. Our work is based on the core principles of openness, creativity and collaboration to embed ways of working that enable people to participate in the decisions that affect their lives.
There's more information and registration here.
Participatory budgeting in Scotland.
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a way for people to have a direct say in how local money is spent.
PB Scotland is developed by the
Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC)
with funding from the Scottish Government.
For more information please contact info@pbscotland.scot.
Terms & conditions.