PB feature on 'Creating a Fairer Scotland' website

The Scottish Government's Creating a Fairer Scotland website features the story of MutualGain PB initiative in Manchester, which Community Empowerment Minister Marco Biagi recently visited along with a PB project in Durham.

Read more here.

Call for citizen participation in spending 1% of UK public budgets

In March 2015, the Open Government Manifesto, a group of UK based civil society organisations, called for citizen participation in spending 1% of UK public budgets.  Registered users on the group's website can support and rate the idea.

Read more here.

Participatory Budgeting Leaflet

A leaflet produced by the Scottish Government to provide background information on participatory budgeting (PB) and an overview of developing PB activity and support across Scotland.

Read the full leaflet here.

Elected member briefing note on participatory budgeting

This briefing note explains how PB can work in practice, how it contributes to the work of elected members and how elected members can support PB in their communities.

You can read the full report here.

PB Working Group

Members of the PB Working Group are working with the Scottish Government to build capacity in Scotland to ensure PB is delivered in a meaningful and sustainable way.  Members are Fiona Garven, Scottish Community Development Centre, Angus Hardie, Scottish Community Alliance, Dr. Oliver Escobar, University of Edinburgh, Martin Johnstone, Faith in Community Scotland and Felix Spittal, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.

Participatory Budgeting Projects in Scotland

The Scottish Government has collated examples of participatory budgeting from around Scotland in this report, intended to be a working document that will evolve as PB grows across Scotland.

You can read the full report here.

Introduction to Participatory Budgeting in Scotland

A report on a series of workshops to local authorities in Scotland, delivered in autumn 2014 by PB Partners and commissioned by the Scottish Government.

You can read more here.

Advancing Participatory Budgeting in Scotland

Presents the findings of a 2014 participatory budgeting learning event in Glasgow, organised by Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) and Faith in Community Scotland, and funded by the Scottish Government’s Community Safety Unit.

Download the report

National Participatory Democracy Conference Report

A report from Scotland’s first National Participatory Democracy Conference in Fife in 2012. The conference generated debate and dialogue on the benefits associated with participatory democratic processes, including participatory budgeting.

Read the full report here.

Community Wellbeing Champions Initiative

This is the report from the Scottish Government’s Community Safety Unit and COSLA's Community Wellbeing Champions Initiative, which ran PB pilots in five areas across Scotland in 2010.

Read the full report here.