The PB Charter for Scotland: Making good PB happen

The PB Charter is a set of seven key features showing what a fair and high quality PB process should look like.

Case study: Merkinch & South Kessock (Inverness): Your Place, Your Point

Funded by Police Scotland, Youth Highland have been working with young people to understand more about their feelings about where they live.

Falrkik Community Choices: Public Voting Now Open

Public voting is now open for this year’s Community Choices, with 57 projects from community and third sector groups across Falkirk District.

Participative Democracy Certificate Training - YouthLink Scotland

The Participative Democracy Certificate (PDC) is a youth award developed by YouthLink Scotland aimed at young people involved in decision making processes.

Participatory budgeting: New challenges, same principles

Evaluating our PB practice: A resource to support PB learning and evaluation

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.

Another Green PB Seal for Scotland: City of Edinburgh Council

The City of Edinburgh Council have now been awarded a Green PB Seal for their Green Participatory Budgeting Programme – “The Edinburgh Community Climate Fund” - which was launched in 2023.

PB and Community Led Local Development Funding

Contribute to the new PB Scotland Ideas Clinic

Our new Ideas Clinics are collaborative, peer learning spaces to help those working around participatory budgeting (PB) and beyond to come together to share experiences, challenges and ideas.

National PB Strategic Group publishes 2022/23 annual report

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.

Case study: PB addressing cost of living and climate in Perth and Kinross

PKC have used their recent PB to cover a number of topics, looking at cost of living and the climate recently as a small grants PB.

PB in Schools: Doing Democracy in Craigentinney Primary School

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.

Funding event - Challenges in accessing funding

Funding event - Housing

Funding event - Education

Funding event - Health and social care

Funding event - environment workshop

Need help to launch or improve a participatory programme? The Rising Stars Mentorship Program is open for new applications

The Rising Stars Mentorship Program connects democracy practitioners with expert guidance to launch and improve participatory programs.

Learning Event Report: How can we fund PB in Scotland?

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.

PB Dispatch - November 2023

We've brought together a mix of news, resources, guides and training around PB and participatory democracy.

From the Resource Hub: Evaluating participatory budgeting

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.

Supporting Community- Based Evaluations Of Participatory Budgeting

This briefing from GCPH explore things to think about when planning and evaluating a PB project.

Hear the Voice, Make the Change: Guide to evaluating PB processes

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.

Glasgow’s Participatory Budgeting Evaluation Toolkit

The toolkit is intended to be user-friendly and helpful for the public sector, the voluntary sector and community organisations running PB activities.

Participatory Budgeting Self-Evaluation Toolkit

This guidance and the accompanying tools are designed to address the issue of capacity to evaluate, and also to ensure that the evaluation meets local need.

Participatory Budgeting Community Councils webinar

The Improvement Service is hosting a free webinar on Participatory Budgeting for community councillors on Wednesday 15th November from 6pm to 7pm

8 Steps to Delivering a Successful Small Grants PB Process

In this article, we’re going to set out the basic steps of how to run a successful small grants PB process – and share links to some useful resources and tips.

Participatory budgeting in 60 seconds

A quick guide to what PB is and how it works.

Guide to Evaluating the Wellbeing impacts of Participatory Budgeting

This new guide and toolkit reflects on recent experiences of Participatory Budgeting (PB) within the Gwent area of Wales, from early 2020 to January 2023.

Digital Platform Ratings

To help users decide which online participation platform to choose, People Powered have rated the leading options in three categories according to six criteria.

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