Falkirk PB kicks off with £3 million fund
/Falkirk Council has launched its Community Choices participatory budgeting process. With £3 million available over two years, local communities can now submit expressions of interest.
Read MoreWatch: Digital PB Learning Event
/Here’s your chance to catch up on what we discussed during our digital PB learning event.
Read MoreNew Online Course: Participatory Budgeting for Climate Change
/People Powered have announced new course where participants will learn how to engage more community members in addressing climate change, together.
Read MoreKey Learning from award-winning Durham City USA PB
/Durham City (USA) was Awarded ‘Best Practice in Citizen Participation’ by the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) for their PB process
Read MorePeople Powered event: How to Engage People with Disabilities in Participatory Budgeting
/In this practical training, participants will learn how to make PB more inclusive, engaging, and empowering for disabled people.
Read MoreNew national PB Strategic Group launches – hear from its Chair
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A new group has been setup to support the development of participatory budgeting across Scotland.
Read MoreNew podcasts on PB in Scotland
/The Democratic Society has published a series of new podcasts which explore how participatory budgeting has been used across Scotland.
Read MorePolitician calls for PB in France's €100bn Covid-19 recovery
/A French politician has called for participatory budgeting to part of how the country recovers from the impact of Covid-19.
Read MoreSurvey results: PB and the Covid-19 recovery
/We recently asked PB Scotland Network members their thoughts about how PB has been affected by the coronavirus outbreak and what opportunities we might see as we move to the next phase of the recovery.
Read MoreNorth Ayrshire ADP moves voting online for £60k PB process
/A decision day event planned for Saturday, April 18 at Ardrossan Civic Centre was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and voting will now take place online.
Read MoreCreating online spaces for deliberation
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A recent co-produced paper by The Democratic Society and Australia’s newDemocracy Foundation highlights useful components and exercising that can be used when taking deliberation ‘online’.
Read MoreDesigning text-based tools for digital deliberation
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This article explores some of the pros and cons when designing online deliberation tools.
Read MoreHow digital tools can keep democracy going during lockdown
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Nesta share the digital tools that can keep democracy going during lockdown.
Read MoreShare your PB experience in a new survey from a University of Strathclyde student research project.
/A University of Strathclyde student research project wants to hear your PB experience in this new survey.
Read MoreGlasgow and Fife featured as Democracy Pioneers
/Fife Council and Glasgow City Council have been heralded as Democracy Pioneers for their innovative work around participatory budgeting.
Read MorePB 2020: Blacklands Community Kitty
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Application deadline for Blacklands Community Kitty is 19 April 2020.
Read MorePB 2020: Wee Green Grants
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Help £90K of participatory budgeting funds be allocated to Glasgow Parks and Greenspace projects led by volunteers across the city.
Read MoreGuide on digital participation in Europe
/Dutch organisations ‘Democratie in Actie, ‘Netwerk Democratie’ and the Like! project have developed a guide on local practices of digital participation in Europe.
Read MoreParticipatory Budgeting Youth Accelerator Open Space Workshop
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Two events during the PB youth accelerator events in Glasgow this April 22nd.
Read MorePB 2020: Gorbals Ideas Fund Small & Big Ideas
/Final day of community voting for Gorbals Ideas Fund’s first small grants funding round of 2020 and the first ever 'Big Ideas' vote giving the community a chance to decide how £10,000 will be spent to tackle barriers to participation.
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