PB Toolkits

PBU Toolkit

We've developed a new PB toolkit with over 150 pages of case studies, tools, resources and updated information.

The toolkit is set out into three sections:

• Section A: The PB Context
• Section B: PB processes
• Section C: Tools

Section A has refreshed and updated information about PB including new chapters looking at PB around the world and the different models of PB in the UK.  Section B is an entirely new section to the toolkit.  It looks at the generic PB process and provides good practice case studies for each stage with accompanying matrices to chart development.  There are now nine new case studies in this section.  Section C has lots of new tools and resources from twelve different initiatives, plus extra resources that the PB Unit has developed.

The focus of the toolkit is primarily on the community grants pot model, although we have included case studies from different models such as mainstreaming in Tower Hamlets, partnership approaches in Norfolk and utilising Section 106 monies in East Devon.  The community grants pot model is the most common approach in the UK, and so we have the most resources and information about this model.

We do appreciate that there is growing interest in other models and so we have included some case studies and resources which look at a more strategic approach and at providing budget literacy.

The toolkit is primarily aimed at organiers, and potential PB organisers, although community and voluntary groups may also find it useful. 

The toolkit contains over 150 pages of updated, revised and new information from the first edition.  It has cost us to produce the toolkit and so we have to pass on this cost.  However, the cost of the toolkit still represents excellent value for money.  Practitioners found the first edition invaluable when planning their PB processes and the new edition is a significant improvement on the first. 

To download a sample of the toolkit click here

To download an order form, click here

Rural Action Yorkshire: Town and Parish PB Toolkit

Rural Action Yorkshire have produced a toolkit and DVD on implmementing PB in town and parish council areas. It draws on the work of several councils in Yorkshire and Humber.

Town and Parish councils are quite unique in that they are non-statutory so they are directly created by the people they serve.  Often councillors aren't aligned to a particular party, and they have the ability to raise their own precepts.  They are closer to their communities and understand better what needs to change to improve it

Parish councillors frequently complain about how difficult it is to get their community involved in the parish council’s business.  Major planning proposals, wind farms, waste incinerators and such like are usually pretty effective in filling parish meetings with members of the public anxious to know how they might be affected, but otherwise, it is often said, no-one is interested.  PB demonstrates that this isn't the case, but that people want more of a say, rather than less.

To download the toolkit click here

To view the video please see the link at the bottom of the page.