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 Association for Neighbourhood Management

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.

Communities and Local Government participatory budgeting page

Section on CLG website dedicated to PB

Facebook: participatory budgeting group

A PB group on facebook

Accenture's Spending Public Money project

Accenture are running an online experiment into public budgets and how people can make choices that impact on their quality of life. The experiment is running until end of December. This link takes you to the start page for the online experiment

National Youth Agency

The National Youth Agency have a PB project and wrote a report about PB and young people in 2007

Asset Transfer Unit

Unit, similar to the PBU, that support people wanting to transfer assets to communities

ICT 4 Democracy Facebook group

Group on facebook dedicated to promoting the use of ICT in democracy

CFE: organisation working to bring social & economic prosperity

CFE is an independent not for profit company, working to improve social and economic prosperity across the UK. We focus on public service users and the development of policies and programmes to better meet their needs.

National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

 

Government Offices in the Regions

We are working to transform lives and places by: - * acting for Government in our regions and localities * acting for our regions and localities in Government * building partnerships and delivering in partnership

Community Development Foundation (CDF)

The Community Development Foundation is a leading source of intelligence, guidance and delivery on community development in England and across the UK. CDF is a non-departmental public body and a registered charity supported by Communities and Local Government (CLG).

Sostenga

Sostenga is a partnership of experienced consultants and trainers, with a wide range of practical grass roots, activist and management experience both in the UK and abroad, who provide a wide range of services to community groups and voluntary organisations.

PB project in Poitou Charentes, France

This is a PB project that's been going since 2005 with 10million Euros each year to be spent on education in the region.

The Consultation Institute

The Consultation Institute deliver training on PB with us and on our behalf, based on a programme that was jointly developed.

Local Government Association

Based in Westminster, close to the Houses of Parliament and Whitehall, the LGA is a voluntary lobbying organisation, acting as the voice of the local government sector, and an authoritative and effective advocate on its behalf.

National Association of Local Councils (NALC)

The recognised membership and support body representing and promoting the interests of 9,000 town, parish and community councils and their 80,000 councillors in England. NALC has, along with its county associations of local councils, supported and helped with the recent PBU/CRC rural pilots project and are working with PBU on a series of events on PB.

Future Communities

A website of resources, case studies and information for people wanting to build sustainable communities