Your Voice – Young Choice: Participatory Budgeting in North Glasgow
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Over 600 votes were placed on 11 local projects, resulting in £60k in grant awards.
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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 MoreApplications are now open for 2016 PB event in Brechin
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Applications are now open for Brechin's next round of Your Budget Your Choice. An online app has been set up to post ideas onto.
Read MoreProposal to put £1m a year per council ward into PB in Glasgow
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Proposals have been made within Glasgow City Council to commit £1m per council ward to participatory budgeting.
Read MoreCarers Voice, Carers Choice! Participatory Budgeting Event
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Singing, dancing and even a few tears - not something you might expect from a public decision making process but it was clear from the outset that the ‘Carers Voice, Carers Choice’ event in Perth was going to be something very different. We
Read MoreDigital Tools and Scotland's Participatory Budgeting Programme
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This publication from Demsoc presents the findings of a research project into the use of digital tools to support Participatory Budgeting (PB), in the context of the requirements of local councils in Scotland.
Read MoreDigital Tools and Scotland's Participatory Budgeting Programme
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In 2015 the Scottish Government commissioned the Democratic Society to investigate options for PB digital tools. The report Digital Tools and Scotland's Participatory Budgeting Programme is now available.
Read MoreFacilitation role for forthcoming PB project in Edinburgh
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Employability and Skills at the City of Edinburgh Council wishes to engage an organisation to facilitate their Participatory Budget programme for Activity Agreements
Read MoreSpringhall gets a spring in its step - PB in South Lanarkshire
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In January 2016, South Lanarkshire Council and partners organised PB events in four locations in South Lanarkshire which took place across two days. The events allowed local people to decide how best to spend money on facilities and activities for young people. PB Scotland reports from one of the events, held in Springhall Community Centre.
Read MoreCouncils giving more power to people
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Communities will be able to vote on how councils spend money through a funding boost of nearly £500,000, Community Empowerment Minister Marco Biagi has announced. Thirteen councils will receive a share of the participatory budgeting fund, which will give people the opportunity to decide where investment should be directed in their local community.
Read MoreUpcoming PB event in Perth and Kinross to support carers
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Perth and Kinross is organising a PB event on 4th February 2016 to enable unpaid carers to be involved in deciding how money is spent to benefit them.
Read MoreCoalfields Regeneration Trust supports PB in Prestonpans
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On Saturday 7th November 2015, the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT) supported a PB event in Prestonpans, in which local people voted for their favourite projects and help decide who shares the £20,000 participatory budget provided by the CRT.
Read MoreIntroductory Guide to Participatory Budgeting
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This guide to Participatory Budgeting has been written by leading experts on PB in the UK. Funded by donations from consultancy work done by PB Partners, it covers all the basic information you need to understand how PBcontributes towards the democratic community engagement work of local authorities and public bodies.
It includes information on the Values, Principles and Standards underpinning all high quality PB work, the background to how it has developed in the UK, the advocacy work of the Network and PB Partners and includes case studies of 4 successful PB programmes.
You can download your free copy from PB Network
