Northeast of England
Pilot Studies in the North East of England
Pilot studies in the northeast of england
The St. Ann’s Funding Team Awards for Young People 2009 – ‘The SAFTA’s’ in Stockon on Tees
The St. Ann’s Funding Team Awards for Young People 2009 (The SAFTA’s) a participatory budgeting event was held on the 19th March 2009.
Keighley Decision Day, Bradford
Bradford Local Strategic Partnership (Bradford Vision), decided to distribute the 2006/07 round of Neighbourhood Renewal Funding (NRF) in Keighley using a process of Participatory Budgeting.
Voice Your Choice in Eastfield, Scarborough
Residents of Eastfield voted on how £32,000 should be spent on projects addressing crime and community safety issues. As well as local people voting for projects at the ‘Decision Day’ in June 2009, residents played a key role in the design and delivery of the process.
The People's Fund, East End & Hendon, Sunderland
The People's Fund was one of the original 5 pilots that the then Office of the Deputy Prime Minister funded to trial PB. They used a small community chest approach, with two events using PB to allocate £15,000 and £35,000 respectively.
The Children's Fund, Newcastle
After months of preparation, 139 young people attended a participatory budgeting event in Newcastle in May 2008 to cast a 20% vote in the procurement of services for the city’s £2.25m Children’s Fund.
Acorns Your Voice, Your Choice Ballot
Your Voice, Your Choice ballot project was one of the Home Office community safety PB pilots which was given £20,000 of Home Office funding for PB. The time constraints for delivery were such that service providers were asked to come up with projects that met the community safety criteria. Ten were short listed by the steering group to go on the ballot.


