Links

Peopleandparticipation.net

A website set up by Involve as a resource for participation practitioners to provide them with information, tools and space to discuss participation. There are publications, case studies, process maps etc on the site for all kinds of participation methods including PB.

Church Action on Poverty

Link to the Church Action on Poverty website, the unit's accountable body

Free images

Most of the images on this site are our own and have been taken at PB events. However, some generic images have been used and have been taken from this royalty free site.

Trafford Hall

Trafford Hall near Chester runs very good training events for tenants and residents of social housing, community groups and other voluntary groups. Costs of courses are often very minimal (£10) and include accommodation, training and food. They run courses on PB on a regular basis.

Department for Communities & Local Government

The department for communities & local government are the central government champions of PB and part-fund the work of the PB Unit.

National Association for Voluntary and Community Action

NAVCA (the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action) is the national voice of local third sector infrastructure in England. Their website has lists of local and national voluntary and community groups and organisations in the UK.

National Neigbhourhood Management Network

A dissemination and good practice network for neighbourhood management practitioners. They run a number of training and sharing learning events across the country.

Sustainable Development Commission

The Sustainable Development Commission is the Government's independent watchdog on sustainable development, reporting to the Prime Minister, the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales and the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. Through advocacy, advice and appraisal, they help put sustainable development at the heart of Government policy.

Home Office

The Home Office are supporting neighbourhood policing PB pilots

Involve

Involve is a third sector organisation who's main aim is to involve people in public decision making. They have produced a number of publications on participation.

Local Government Information Unit

The LGIU are running a series of PB workshops with our support.

International website on participatory budgeting

ParticipatoryBudgeting.org is a general resource site on participatory budgeting and other forms of participatory democracy. It was launched in March 2006. The site aims to collect and publicize information on participatory budgeting around the world in an accessible format.

International Budget Project

The International Budget Project was formed in 1997 to nurture the growth of civil society capacity to analyze and influence government budget processes, institutions and outcomes. The IBP is interested particularly in working with those organizations that focus on the impact of the budget on poor and low-income people in developing countries or new democracies.

European Union Socrates Programme PB toolkit

 

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

 

New Economics Foundation

a think & do tank. They believe in economics as if people mattered.

Institute for Development Partitipation Team

Part of the University of Sussex

International Centre for Participation Studies

One of our academic partners. Part of Bradford University

Logolink

LogoLink is a global network of practitioners from civil society organisations, research institutions and governments working to deepen democracy through greater citizen participation in local governance. LogoLink encourages learning from field-based innovations and expressions of democracy which contribute to social justice.

Women's Budget Group

The Women's Budget Group ( WBG ) is an independent organisation bringing together individuals from academia, non-governmental organisations and trades unions to promote gender equality through appropriate economic policy.

Marc Bloch Center in Germany - studying PB in Germany

A project from the Marc Bloch Center with the financial support of the Hans Böckler foundation “Participatory Budgets in an European Comparative Approach. Perspectives and Chances of the Cooperative State at the Municipal Level in Germany”

Freefoto.com

Some of the images on this site were provided royalty free by Freefoto.com

Brazilian participatory budget network

They produce a an e-bulletin on a regular basis providing updates on participatory budgeting in Brazil and also links to PB elsewhere around the world.

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