The application period for this year's £eith Decides is open from 11am Saturday 24 October until 5pm Wednesday 18 November. Community projects in Leith are invited to apply for funding from a pot of more than £22,000 as part of one of the longest running participatory budgeting projects in the UK.
Click here to read the full story on the City of Edinburgh Council website.
Book your ticket for the UK PB Network National Gathering.
Read MoreMinister for Local Government and Community Empowerment, Marco Biagi, introduces, and sets the context for, PB Scotland
Read MoreThe PB Network is the UK's independent body advocating for learning and innovation in Participatory Budgeting. As well as being a great resource in itself, the website contains a wide range of case studies, reports and videos about PB in the UK and worldwide.
See more at http://pbnetwork.org.uk/resources/
The people of East Brechin are being invited to spend a budget of £20,000 on initiative to improve wellbeing in their area.
Read MoreMidlothian Council is working with Coalfields Regeneration Trust to deliver a Participatory Budgeting (PB) project in Woodburn and Dalkeith.
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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.
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.
PB Scotland is a new website for sharing and learning about the great work being done by PB initiatives around Scotland.
Read MoreA number of local events have taken place in Fife which are promoting PB approaches - along £500k devolved to local communities to spend on their priorities.
Read MoreRead of two PB projects are underway in the Western Isles, one focusing on the local transport budget and another as part small youth grants.
Read MorePB has been a key area of development in the Highlands, with a series of events taking place across the year around funds of more than £60k.
Read MoreAs part of the approach to community planning Glasgow City Council is rolling out community budgeting to local areas so local people have greater influence over, and input into, how services are developed and delivered.
Read MoreJez Hall from PB Partners discusses the potential role of participatory budgeting in the future of community service provision.
Read MoreThe Scottish Government's Creating a Fairer Scotland website features the story of MutualGain PB initiative in Manchester, which Community Empowerment Minister Marco Biagi recently visited along with a PB project in Durham.
Read more here.
In March 2015, the Open Government Manifesto, a group of UK based civil society organisations, called for citizen participation in spending 1% of UK public budgets. Registered users on the group's website can support and rate the idea.
Read more here.
A leaflet produced by the Scottish Government to provide background information on participatory budgeting (PB) and an overview of developing PB activity and support across Scotland.
Read the full leaflet here.
This briefing note explains how PB can work in practice, how it contributes to the work of elected members and how elected members can support PB in their communities.
You can read the full report here.
Members of the PB Working Group are working with the Scottish Government to build capacity in Scotland to ensure PB is delivered in a meaningful and sustainable way. Members are Fiona Garven, Scottish Community Development Centre, Angus Hardie, Scottish Community Alliance, Dr. Oliver Escobar, University of Edinburgh, Martin Johnstone, Faith in Community Scotland and Felix Spittal, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
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.
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.
Participatory budgeting in Scotland.
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a way for people to have a direct say in how local money is spent.
A 60-second guide
to PB
PB Scotland is developed by the
Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC)
with funding from the Scottish Government.
For more information please contact info@pbscotland.scot.
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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.