Webinar: A Charter for Participatory Budgeting in Scotland
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You're invited to one of our webinars about developing a PB Charter for Scotland. We will think about ‘What principles should underpin good quality PB in Scotland?’
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Watch now: A new film about the next steps for PB in Scotland→
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‘Moving Toward the Mainstream’ looks how we can take PB a step further by using it to decide mainstream budgets - watch our final trailer now, full film out now.
Read MoreWorkshops: A Charter for Participatory Budgeting in Scotland
/We want to co-produce this charter with PB Scotland members to help define PB’s principles, values and conditions in Scotland.
Read MoreEvent: Participatory Budgeting and Open Government
/Share your ideas about how PB can help government, nationally and locally, work better for its people.
Read MoreApplications now open: Community Choices 2018/19→
/The Scottish Government has announced the latest round of the Community Choices Fund, giving community organisations and community councils an opportunity to run their own participatory budgeting (PB) events.
Read MoreYour Voice Your Choice: Sharing the Experience from Musselburgh
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Tuesday evening Musselburgh Area Partnership held an event to showcase their evaluation process of ‘Your Voice Your Choice’ programme.
Read MoreHealth and Wellbeing for all ages: Money for Moray
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Over 300 people from across Moray packed the hall to see 36 groups giving short presentations in the hope of persuading the audience to vote for their project.
Read MoreMoney for Moray - Beneath the tip of the PB Iceberg
/For most groups running PB processes the final event is what everybody sees, the visible tip of the iceberg, if you like. But the planning, preparation and sheer hard work that goes into PB represents the other nine tenths of the process.
Read MoreSeven Simple Questions to Evaluate PB
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Paul Nelis reflects on the importance of evaluating the impact of PB and presents 7 simple questions that will help PB steering groups and agencies (implementing mainstream PB) to evaluate their process and events.
Read MoreDundee Decides: Results in for mainstream PB process
/With more than 11,000 voters from across the city, Dundee has decided how it wants to spend more than £1 million of the council's mainstream budget through participatory budgeting.
Read MoreLet’s leave age limits in the past: Voting ages and PB
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With equality and empowerment central to participatory budgeting, David Reilly asks: why we would exclude anyone because of their age?
Read MoreLessons from America: Democracy, decision-making and PB
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Fiona Garven, SCDC Director, shares her experiences of visiting Arizona to learn about their progress with PB.
Read MoreVoting systems for PB: Making your choice
/Here Paul Nelis reflects on his discussion with Ullapool Community Trust about the voting options available to them as they plan for their participatory budgeting event. It seems like there are as many variations in voting as snowflakes on a winters day.
Read MorePB quick tips: How your community organisation can get involved in PB
/Find out some of the ways local community organisations can get involved in participatory budgeting in Scotland.
Read MoreCommunity Choices events near you in 2018→
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Community Choices funded events are taking place across the country during 2018. Catch up on everything that's happening.
Read More"Trust was the key word": Homelessness support through PB
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Here, David Reilly shares his thoughts about a recent PB process which saw people experiencing homelessness decide on the best support for them.
Read MoreSouth Glasgow Youthbank Big Grant Giveaway
/More than 100 young people from across Glasgow came together for this participatory budgeting event, organised by South Glasgow Youth Bank.
Read MoreYou’ve got to make your mark - Spirit of the Gorbals PB Event
/Glasgow’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 MorePB goes 'mainstream' in Dundee
/Dundee 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 MoreHow far have we come? Report from the PB Scotland Conference 2017
/Read about all the action from the day.
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