Welcome to PB Scotland - The latest events, news & ideas on Participatory Budgeting in Scotland.
What is participatory budgeting?
Participatory Participatory budgeting (PB) is a way for people to have a direct say in how local money is spent.

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This resource aims to support PB practitioners to develop and improve evaluation practices. It’s web-based, easy to use and will support practice at all stages.
The National Participatory Budgeting Strategic Group, which was established to help guide the strategic direction for PB in Scotland, has published its annual report for 2022/23.
In this article, PB Scotland’s Paul Nelis explores the work of the Ripple Project and Craigentinney Primary school where PB has been used by pupils to set their priorities.
This PB Scotland learning event will be a chance to explore how we fund participatory budgeting (PB) and the learning we're seeing from across Scotland.
We’ve brought together some of the key evaluation resources that are feature on our PB Resources Hub, as well as some examples of real PB processes.
This briefing from GCPH explore things to think about when planning and evaluating a PB project.
This briefing aims to support public sector organisations wishing to evaluate their ‘mainstream’ Participatory Budgeting (PB) initiatives. The techniques outlined here are also applicable to PB grant making programmes.
Public voting is now open for this year’s Community Choices, with 57 projects from community and third sector groups across Falkirk District.
The Participative Democracy Certificate (PDC) is a youth award developed by YouthLink Scotland aimed at young people involved in decision making processes.
The National Participatory Budgeting Strategic Group, which was established to help guide the strategic direction for PB in Scotland, has published its annual report for 2022/23.
The Rising Stars Mentorship Program connects democracy practitioners with expert guidance to launch and improve participatory programs.
The PB Charter is a set of seven key features showing what a fair and high quality PB process should look like.