Your ward, Your cash, Your choice!
/15,000 from the Ward Discretionary Budget has been set aside to provide grants from £100 up to £1,500.
Read More15,000 from the Ward Discretionary Budget has been set aside to provide grants from £100 up to £1,500.
Read MoreKyle Community Projects – Let’s Decide! Application deadline extended!
Read MoreBuilding a stronger Merkinch - Your chance to have your say!
Read MorePeople Tackling Poverty – £240,000 of Tackling Poverty Development Funding to communities across Dumfries and Galloway
Read MoreThousands of pounds of funding has been given out to youth projects in North Ayrshire as part of Scotland’s largest ever online participatory budgeting exercise.
Read MoreCalling all community groups, clubs and associations in Newton North, Prestwick, Heathfield, Monkton and Symington!
Read MoreGirvan Youth Trust is organising another participatory budgeting (PB) initiative, taking place on 24th February 2018 at Girvan Academy.
Read MoreLocal community groups are encouraged to submit ideas that will benefit the local community, with funds between £500 and £3,000 available.
Read MoreArgyll & Bute Council are using a participatory budgeting process to decide how its local grants will be distributed across the region.
Read MoreA fund has opened for groups in East Dunbartonshire who want to produce cultural and arts activity in their local community, as part of Festival 2018 – the cultural programme for the Glasgow 2018 European Championships.
Read MoreThe Lochbroom 3-D Fund: Discuss, Decide, Do (part of Ullapool Community Trust) has received £30,000 from the Scottish Government Community Choices Programme to promote and encourage community empowerment and participation.
Read MoreThe “Your Voice, Your Choice” programme is an opportunity for every child and young person, aged 8 – 18, living in Musselburgh, Old Craighall, Wallyford or Whitecraig to submit an idea (project) for funding up to a maximum of £2000.
Read MoreMore than 100 young people from across Glasgow came together for this participatory budgeting event, organised by South Glasgow Youth Bank.
Read MorePeople in Ayr South and Coylton are being encouraged to show their support for local community groups by voting on their favourites. The latest Ayr South decision day will be held on Saturday, 17 February at the Coylton Activity Centre.
Read MoreGlasgow’s Gorbals is famous for its strong community and on 1st February 2018 the Gorbals community met to decide on how public money should be spent.
Read MoreThe public will vote on the list of options for the £50,000 to be spent on, following on from the PB Information Day on Saturday 24 February.
Read MoreLochalsh local councillors have set aside a ‘pot’ of £10,000 – made up of £4,000 from the local Ward Discretionary Budget topped up with £6,000 of Scottish Government funding - and they want to put the community in control of how it is spent through a ‘Kyle Community Project – Let’s Decide!’ event.
Whether you want to organise a dance for young people, a healthy living project, a crime prevention idea, a lunch club for older residents, a community arts project…the only limit is your imagination!
Any local community, voluntary or non-profit organisation can apply for funding from £200 to £2,000 to put ideas into action. Only one bid is permitted per organisation and all activities will have to happen in the Kyle Community Council Area by Lochalsh based organisations and benefit local people.
For more information or help with your application drop into the The Lighthouse Centre, Station Road, Kyle any Wednesday from 10-2pm or phone or email the SLCVO office on 01478 612921 or info@slcvo.org.uk
To apply for the funding you must return your completed form before the closing date on Friday February 16 2018.
Inverness Central local councillors have set aside a ‘pot’ of £20,000 – made up of £10,000 from the local Ward Discretionary Budget topped up with £10,000 of Scottish Government funding - and they want to put the community in control of how it is spent through a ‘Building a Stronger Merkinch’ event.
Any local community, voluntary or non-profit organisation can apply for funding from £200 to £2,500 to put ideas into action. Only one bid is permitted per section of an organisation and all activities will have to happen in the Merkinch Community Council Area and benefit local people.
For more information or help with your application drop into to see either:
To apply for the funding you must return your completed form before the closing date on Friday 23 February 2018.
Money for Moray are embarking another participatory budgeting (PB) process for 2018, with £60,000 available for groups.
Read MoreClosing date for applications is Friday 16 February 2018.
Read MoreDundee City Council's ambitious PB programme has been launched, with citizens in each of Dundee's eight electoral wards deciding how best to spend £1.2 million of the Council's spending budget.
Read MoreParticipatory budgeting in Scotland.
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a way for people to have a direct say in how local money is spent.
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.
Terms & conditions.