PB Scotland are delighted to announce that our first dedicated Green PB Seal has now been issued to the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Partnership for their recent Green PB Project in the North East of Scotland.
Read MoreThe Badges and Seals are being introduced to act as a simple way to recognise where Green PB activity has taken place.
Read MoreHere, David Reilly, Communities and Networks Manager at The Poverty Alliance explores the role PB plays addressing poverty across Scotland, and what we need to do to truly challenge power and ensure decision making is accountable.
Read MoreHere, David Reilly, Communities and Networks Manager at The Poverty Alliance shares his reflections on how we can use participatory budgeting (PB) to challenge the poverty of participation.
Read MoreIn this blog Sam Jordan explores the connections between participatory budgeting and community development in Scotland.
Read MoreHere, Francesca Lynch, Development Manager at SCDC, explores the expanding world of green PB and launches PB Scotland’s new Green PB resource.
Read MoreA series of blogs explores deliberative democracy: what it is, why it’s powerful, why the time is right for it, how it works, and how to get it going in your community.
Read MoreEllie Craig, MSYP for Glasgow Cathcart has published a blog about the role of PB in encouraging young people to become involved in decision making.
Read MoreFiona Garven, SCDC Director, shares her thoughts on how we can use participatory budgeting to support our Covid-19 recovery
Read MoreAfter the release of a £350 million Scottish Government fund to support welfare and wellbeing, David Reilly writes on the role of Participatory Budgeting in building trust, resilience and ensuing community priorities guide our new investments.
Read MoreDemsoc’s interview with Hanne Bastiaensen about her work on Antwerp's consensus-based PB process .
Read MoreIn this blog, Andrew Paterson from PB Scotland shows how PB is a great way to advance children’s right to participate.
Read MoreCoryn Barclay, research consultant at Fife Council, shares insights from her visits to PB processes from across the globe.
Read MorePaul Nelis reflects on the changes to Cranhill in Glasgow and Cranhill Development Trust’s use of PB to tackle the persistent issues of summer hunger and lack of activities for young people.
Read MoreFor most groups running PB processes the final event is what everybody sees, the visible tip of the iceberg, if you like. But the planning, preparation and sheer hard work that goes into PB represents the other nine tenths of the process.
Read MorePaul Nelis reflects on the importance of evaluating the impact of PB and presents 7 simple questions that will help PB steering groups and agencies (implementing mainstream PB) to evaluate their process and events.
Read MoreFiona Garven, SCDC Director, shares her experiences of visiting Arizona to learn about their progress with PB.
Read MoreDavid Reilly gives us his thoughts about the recent Young Movers Community Celebration night - and the difference young people are making in Glasgow.
Read MoreWith local election turnout still relatively low, where do we start with getting people more engaged – and where does participatory budgeting fit in?
Read MoreAs Participatory Budgeting moves from Grants to Mainstream Budgets the PB Advisory Group are looking for clarity about the road ahead.
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Participatory budgeting (PB) is a way for people to have a direct say in how local money is spent.
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