Troon Locality Decides - applications close 10th June
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South Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership is running a PB event in Troon with up to £10,000 available to local organisations.
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Angus Participatory Budgeting Learning Exchange - 17th June
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The day will be a chance to learn more about the PB process and hear more about the Your Budget, Your Choice PB work that has been happening in Angus already
Read MoreInternational experiences in Participatory Budgeting: A session with Giovanni Allegretti
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What Works Scotland is inviting those interested and involved in participatory budgeting to morning session with international participatory budgeting expert Giovanni Allegretti.
Read MoreSouth Centra£ Decides on Saturday
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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.
Read MorePublic Participation in Decision Making - draft report
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The Democratic Society has published a draft paper which outlines methods of implementing the new public participation in decision making power described in the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act.
Read MorePB in Action: Tackling disadvantage in Midlothian
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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
Read MorePB across the pond
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Young people in Boston have been deciding where to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money.
Read MoreLocal Glasgow community budgeting events in April
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Glasgow Community Planning Partnership has a series of events planned during April which will see £10,000 to be voted on in each Glasgow's 21 Area Partnerships.
Read MorePB in Action: Shetland
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Lerwick Community Council is organising and hosting a participatory budgeting event, 'Loot for Lerwick' on 21st May 2016.
Read MoreLocal 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 MorePB in Action: North Ayrshire PB event, Kilwinning, Sat 19th March
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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.
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 MorePB in Action: South West Edinburgh
/Edinburgh South West Neighbourhood Partnership has run a PB process where young people have decided on £10,000 for local projects.
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 More£2 million fund for PB in Scotland
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These funds will enable further involvement from community organisations and other public bodies over the next year.
Read MorePB in Action: Ayrshire
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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.
Read MoreMini publics and free school meals
/Explore how Aberdeenshire used participatory budgeting and mini publics to address issues around free schools meals.
Read MoreDigital Tools and Scotland's Participatory Budgeting Programme
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This publication from Demsoc presents the findings of a research project into the use of digital tools to support Participatory Budgeting (PB), in the context of the requirements of local councils in Scotland.
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.
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