Local People Leading - Participatory Budgeting in Brechin
/PB Scotland reports from PB in the East Brechin where residents have allocated £20,000 to a variety of local community groups.
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 MoreParticipatory budgeting in Scotland - GCPH and WWS report
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This paper from Glasgow Centre for Population Health and What Works Scotland outlines ten strategic PB design choices and ten principles for effective delivery.
Read MoreBetter decisions, local priorities: Cardenden visit for £2m PB funding announcement
/PB Scotland visits Cardenden to find out more about the local PB activity and a new £2m PB fund
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 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 MoreParticipatory budgeting in Scotland - new report
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The Glasgow Centre for Population Health and What Works Scotland have today published Participatory budgeting in Scotland to complement the launch of the Scottish Government’s new participatory budgeting website.
Read MoreEvaluating Participatory Budgeting
/Public Agenda in the USA has released 15 key metrics for evaluation and a toolkit to provide common measures of success in participatory budgeting (PB). The North American PB Research Board, in collaboration with the USA based PB Project helped to develop these tools. The methodology used ‘will have universal application, even outside the USA and Canada’.
You can find out more and download the toolkit here.
Introductory 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
PB in Action blog posts
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PB Scotland is featuring a series of updates from Scottish local authorities who have been supported to engage in PB activity by the Scottish Government. The Scottish Government is part-funding PB consultancy support delivered by PB Partners during 2015/16 to twenty local authorities across Scotland signed up for PB activity in their area.
You can read these updates below.
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Participatory budgeting and community services
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Jez Hall from PB Partners discusses the potential role of participatory budgeting in the future of community service provision.
Read MoreParticipatory Budgeting Projects in Scotland
/The Scottish Government has collated examples of participatory budgeting from around Scotland in this report, intended to be a working document that will evolve as PB grows across Scotland.
You can read the full report here.
Introduction to Participatory Budgeting in Scotland
/A report on a series of workshops to local authorities in Scotland, delivered in autumn 2014 by PB Partners and commissioned by the Scottish Government.
You can read more here.
Advancing Participatory Budgeting in Scotland
/Presents the findings of a 2014 participatory budgeting learning event in Glasgow, organised by Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) and Faith in Community Scotland, and funded by the Scottish Government’s Community Safety Unit.
Download the report
National Participatory Democracy Conference Report
/A report from Scotland’s first National Participatory Democracy Conference in Fife in 2012. The conference generated debate and dialogue on the benefits associated with participatory democratic processes, including participatory budgeting.
Read the full report here.
The role of participatory budgeting in promoting localism and mobilising community assets
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Read MoreCommunity Wellbeing Champions Initiative
/This is the report from the Scottish Government’s Community Safety Unit and COSLA's Community Wellbeing Champions Initiative, which ran PB pilots in five areas across Scotland in 2010.
Read the full report here.
As featured on the Innovation Exchange website, Western Isles Council has used PB to engage withcommunities in Uist and Barra around the redesign of the local public bus services.