While the small Ayrshire town is experienced at hosting the Open International Golf Tournament which returns this summer, this PB process was something really new for residents.
Read MoreGiovanni Allegretti shares his knowledge of PB from around the world at this PB event in Edinburgh. He said we need to keep our eye on inequalities and make sure the process supports this aim.
Read MoreOn Saturday 21st May 2016, 349 local residents in a disadvantaged area of Midlothian decided how to spend £30,000 on projects supporting people struggling financially. PB Scotland was there to capture the action.
Read MorePB Scotland reports from PB in the East Brechin where residents have allocated £20,000 to a variety of local community groups.
Read MoreSinging, 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 MoreThis paper from Glasgow Centre for Population Health and What Works Scotland outlines ten strategic PB design choices and ten principles for effective delivery.
Read MorePB Scotland visits Cardenden to find out more about the local PB activity and a new £2m PB fund
Read MoreIn 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 MoreIn 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 MoreThe 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 MorePublic 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.
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 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.
June saw 2 Participatory Budgeting events in East Ayrshite - Mauchline on June 5th and Valley Ventures, in Darvel on June 25th.
Kilwinning’s young people came out in force at the weekend to secure over £3500 for community projects in the town.
Each of Glasgow’s 21 Area Partnerships had access to £10k of the £210,000 pot for disbursal using Community Budgeting - read about how it happened in this report.
North Ayrshire's second PB event was held in the 3 Towns of Saltcoats, Stevenston and Ardrossan on the 21st May 2016 - read about the results of this PB process
On Saturday the 30th APRIL 2016 (11am to 3pm), people in South Central Edinburgh will have the chance to decide how £200k is spent on housing, the environment and roads.
Local residents in a disadvantaged area of Midlothian are being supported to decide how to spend £30,000 to support people who are struggling financially
The first North Ayrshire PB event will take place on Saturday 19th March 2016. The event will be a chance for local community members aged 8+ to vote on £12,000 of funds for community organisations, who can bid for up to £700.
Edinburgh South West Neighbourhood Partnership has run a PB process where young people have decided on £10,000 for local projects.
Colleagues from Ayrshire have let us know about some of the developments taking place in the early part of 2016, including community information meetings and PB training.
Jez Hall from PB Partners discusses the potential role of participatory budgeting in the future of community service provision.
Read MoreThe 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.
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.
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.
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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.
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Read MoreThis 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.
Participatory budgeting in Scotland.
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