Individual experiences of PB
Here is a collection of personal experiences of PB from across the country. If you have a story you'd like to share - send it to us and we'll add it here.
Experiences of PB from an individual perspective are just as important and powerful as case studies of the whole process. Individual stories provide a human perspective of the impacts and outcomes that PB is achieving whereas case studies provide overviews of a whole project or process, but often exclude the longer term impacts.
Part of collecting the evidence of the impacts of PB is collecting the experiences of individuals - not only from the voting events, but after the events to the longer term impacts.
Teresa and Sue in Manton, Nottinghamshire
Over the past seven years, Sue and Teresa have helped Manton Community Alliance transform Manton almost beyond recognition. What particularly appealed to them was the participative approach to community development, initially via participatory appraisal and then participatory budgeting. It is an approach centred on the importance of valuing the knowledge and experience of local people and empowering them to identify their own priorities, find solutions to the problems affecting them and to make their own decisions about how public money should be spent.
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