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Tagged ItemsThe People's Fund, East End & Hendon, SunderlandThe 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.
It's your choice, participatory budgeting in CoventryA video about participatory budgeting in December 2008 in Stoke Aldermoor, Coventry
Different PB ProcessesParticipatory Budgeting can be applied to many different contexts where priorities have to be made and budgets set in the allocation of public funds. Most, but not all, of the PB initiatives in the UK to date have been applied to the allocation of small grants.
Richard Edward's Manton experiencePresentation given by Richard Edwards at the national PB conference
Participatory Budgeting in Drighlington, LeedsVideo from a PB event in Drighlington in South Leeds in Summer 2008.
Manton participatory budgeting project advertsManton Community Alliance have been running a PB project for 2 years and decided that to reach as many people as possible, rather than have a day of seeing presentations from projects and voting, they would have different events and show a DVD of 'adverts' for the different projects bidding for funding. The video is in 3 parts due to its length
Manton participatory budgeting project adverts part 2Part 2 of the adverts produced by Manton to showcase projects applying for funding for the PB pot.
UDecide PB event in Newcastle December 2006Video of a participatory budgeting event in Newcastle in December 2006
Small grants scoring matrix
From Brazil to Keighley: Part 5The fifth part of the video of a participatory budgeting event in Keighley, Bradford in 2005
Clean Green and Safe the participatory way, BradfordA video of a participatory budgeting event around a pot of money for clean, green and safe activities in Bradford in 2005 by Bradford Vision, the Local Strategic Partnership.
From Brazil to Keighley: Part 2The second part of a video of a participatory budgeting event in Keighley, a town in Bradford, in 2005
Middlesborough UChoose PB projectMiddlesborough held their first PB voting event in Summer 2008. This is a video of that process
From Brazil to Keighley: Part 4Fourth part of the video from a participatory budgeting event in Keighley in Bradford in 2005.
In Your Hands, MorecambePoulton Neigbhourhood Management arranged an event with Poulton community in February 2008 to distribute £20,000 on cleaner and greener projects using PB. The event was a great success, with over 100 people attending, 92% of which said they would take part again. 26 groups applied and 13 were funded through the process.
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Cornwall promotional leaflet
PB evolving in South West
Cae Ddol Park PB in Ruthin
Vince Howe Newcastle's UDecide project
Newcastle UDecide The Kids PB video
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can write to the
Participatory Budgeting Unit
through our Manchester Office.
Participatory
Budgeting Unit
C/o Church Action on Poverty
3rd Floor
35 Dale St
Manchester M1 2HF
UK
Office Tel: 0161 236 9321
Fax: 0161 237 5359
The PB Unit is a project of Church Action on Poverty, a charity (charity no. 1079986) and company limited by guarantee (company no.3780243)
