The PB Charter is a set of seven key features showing what a fair and high quality PB process should look like.

This resource aims to support PB practitioners to develop and improve evaluation practices.  It’s web-based, easy to use and will support practice at all stages.

The National Participatory Budgeting Strategic Group, which was established to help guide the strategic direction for PB in Scotland, has published its annual report for 2022/23.

In this article, PB Scotland’s Paul Nelis explores the work of the Ripple Project and Craigentinney Primary school where PB has been used by pupils to set their priorities.

This PB Scotland learning event will be a chance to explore how we fund participatory budgeting (PB) and the learning we're seeing from across Scotland.

This briefing from GCPH explore things to think about when planning and evaluating a PB project.

This briefing aims to support public sector organisations wishing to evaluate their ‘mainstream’ Participatory Budgeting (PB) initiatives.  The techniques outlined here are also applicable to PB grant making programmes.

The toolkit is intended to be user-friendly and helpful for the public sector, the voluntary sector and community organisations running PB activities.

This guidance and the accompanying tools are designed to address the issue of capacity to evaluate, and also to ensure that the evaluation meets local need.

In this article, we’re going to set out the basic steps of how to run a successful small grants PB process – and share links to some useful resources and tips.

A quick guide to what PB is and how it works.

This new guide and toolkit reflects on recent experiences of Participatory Budgeting (PB) within the Gwent area of Wales, from early 2020 to January 2023.

To help users decide which online participation platform to choose, People Powered have rated the leading options in three categories according to six criteria.

This guide explains key features of these civic-tech tools, shares lessons learned from users around the world, suggests best practices, and offers several practical resources to guide selection and implementation.

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community.

This toolkit provides an overview of participatory democracy practices focused on policy-making, shares the results of a participatory policy-making (PPM) process

The 1% PB commitment is an agreement between the Scottish Government and COSLA (which represents local authorities in Scotland) that at least 1% of local government budgets should be decided through participatory budgeting.

The National Participatory Budgeting Strategic Group has published a framework for the future of participatory budgeting (PB) in Scotland. The framework sets out shared intentions and ambitions for PB and, looking ahead, outlines a series of priority recommendations to be carried forward.

This resource looks at Participatory budgeting (PB) in schools from a Scottish and international perspective. It presents insights to the common school themes and points towards useful resources for practitioners.

A quick guide explaining how PB can be used in schools.

Green PB is a way for people to make direct decisions about how budgets are spent addressing climate change and reducing our carbon footprints.

Democratic Society and Scottish Community Development Centre hosted an exploratory and discovery research project to understand what community digital participatory budgeting could look like for communities in the future.

Aberdeenshire pupils have been involved in a participatory budgeting process which has seen 27 projects related to climate change and carbon reduction.

On 22 June PB practitioners joined the online Growing PB through Digital Tools workshop to hear from 3 PB approaches which used digital tools to reach out to a wider audience and involve them in budget decisions.

This resource highlight some useful digital tools which can support a Participatory Budgeting process - from complete solutions to useful individual tools.

PB Scotland are delighted to announce that our first dedicated Green PB Seal has now been issued to the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Partnership for their recent Green PB Project in the North East of Scotland.

The Green PB Seal and Green PB Benefits Badge aim to highlight the positive impact participatory budgeting is having on Scotland’s drive to achieve a Just Transition to net-zero by 2045.

The Badges and Seals are being introduced to act as a simple way to recognise where Green PB activity has taken place.

The report details the activity of the group and the overall development of PB activity during the year.