Tag: participatory budgeting

Event: Participatory Budgeting & Open Government

Thursday, 16th August 2018
Cosla offices, Haymarket, Edinburgh

Share your ideas about how PB can help government, nationally and locally, work better for its people.

This free informal workshop, organised by Scottish Government, COSLA and Open Government Network & PB Scotland, will ask how participatory budgeting can help make government in Scotland more open, transparent and accountable. Using your experiences of PB, we’ll ask:

  • What actions can help take PB further?
  • How can PB enable more people to be involved in developing public services?
  • How can it be used more effectively to guide how public money is spent?

Come along and learn more about open government and the Open Government Partnership, meet the team and discuss your views and ideas about how we can make government work better for Scotland.
Learn more & register your interest here

Still time to book your place at Voice Your Choice event

Voice Your Choice Launch Event

Date: Wednesday 18th July 2018

Time: 9.00am – 1.00pm

Location: European Room, Edinburgh City Chambers, 253 High St, Edinburgh EH1 1YJ

About Voice Your Choice:

Voice Your Choice is a £40,000 Participatory Budgeting Programme, offering small grants of up to £2,000 for ideas that support positive steps towards employment. Stage one of the process involves organisations submitting a project proposal, those that meet the criteria will move on to stage two, where the community will decide how public resources are allocated by attending a voting event in their locality.

About the launch: 

The launch event aims to provide information to community organisations on the process of submitting a project proposal to the Voice Your Choice fund. You can register for an application pack, receive guidance on the employability theme of the fund, find out more about Participatory Budgeting (PB) & what’s involved in the funding process, share ideas and hear about past project successes that have come from other PB grants in Edinburgh. 

9.00 – 9.30:                Networking & Refreshments

9.30 – 9.35:                Welcome

9.35 – 10.00:              Quick Introduction to Participatory Budgeting (small grants)

10.00 – 10.30:            Voice Your Choice Information Session

10.30 – 11.15             Case Study

11:15 – 11.30:            Refreshment Break

11.30 – 12.30:            Mock PB activity

12.30 – 1.30:              Lunch & Refreshments (Provided) 

Other Information:

Lunch and refreshments will be provided

Please note there are a limited number of spaces available for the launch event so please do let us know as soon as possible if you are able to attend so we can inform the venue and catering.

Interested? Please contact stacey.cuthbertson@capitalcitypartnership.org to confirm your attendance at the launch.

Strollers youth section celebrate local funding boost

Youth players from Civil Service Strollers are celebrating after being awarded £1,000 by The Old Kirk and Muirhouse Parish Church. The local church organised a participatory budgeting event last weekend and Civil Youth was among six local projects to share in the £4500 ‘Your Voice, Your Choice’ fund. Continue reading Strollers youth section celebrate local funding boost

Your voice, your choice: have your say on spending in Muirhouse this Saturday

 ‘Your Voice Your Choice’ is back this Saturday 14th April  at 10am in Old Kirk & Muirhouse Parish Church.

Hear the pitches and have your say on how £4500 can be allocated to improve the local community! Continue reading Your voice, your choice: have your say on spending in Muirhouse this Saturday

£eith has chosen!

Leith projects share £118,000 in local Participatory Budgeting initiative 

The following projects have received a funding award following the £eith Chooses 2018 participatory budgeting initiative run by Leith’s community councils with the support of the city council:

SMALL GRANTS (up to £500) The sum awarded is what the project group applied for

Leithers Don’t Litter – Good Clean Fun – £500
CLASP Seniors Tea Party – £500
Cleaning Up Restalrig Road – £500
Help Scouts go Camping – £500
Art Outside the Police Box – £500
The Big Brunch – towards a shared vision of Childcare – £500
Family Fun Street Games and Dance – £500
See Me Portrait Project – £485
Taobh Na Pairce Film Making Workshop – £500
Choose Happiness – £475
Leith Fort Residents Community Group – £500

MEDIUM GRANTS (up to £5,000) 

Hidden Door Festival – involving the local community – £4,515
Tailor Ed Foundation – £1,959
Leith Primary Parent Council – Trim Trail – £5,000
All Together Charity Shop – Skills Training – £4,450
Leith Community Cinema – accessible screenings – £3,000
Invisible Cities – Street Barber project – £1,255
Mustard Seed – Soul Food Easter Road – £4,475
Leith Late – A Wall is a Screen – £3,500
Dr. Bells Family Centre – Summer Programme – £5,000
St. Mary’s Primary – Bike Shelter & Scooter Rack – £2,152
Leith FAB Cricket Club – all weather artificial pitch – £4,656
Beyond Gender – LGBT+ Creative Writing  – £4,038 (partial funding)

LARGE GRANTS (up to £10,000)

Leith DIY Skateparks – extending skateboarding facilities for all – £9,000
Leith Theatre Trust – Thomas Morton Hall equipment – £10,000
The Edinburgh Tool Library – accessible Leith – £9,690
Creative Electric – art and performance with various groups – £10,000
Projekt 42 – yoga, youth fitness, summer bootcamp – £9,994
Citadel Youth Centre – Citadel Connect – £8,980
Out of the Blue – Meanwhile…in Leith Hub – £9,613
Scottish Historic Buildings / Leith Heritage Trail Group – £1,223 (partial funding)

In-person card voting took place at Leith Community Centre on 3 March, and local people could also vote online voting from 3-17 March.

A face to face feedback discussion session is now being planned to facilitate interaction between participants, identify issues, share suggestions for improvement, and generate new ideas.

Still time to cast youth vote in NW Edinburgh

Over £160,000 of funding is being allocated to youth work projects across Edinburgh, and young people have the opportunity to vote for their top three choices on where they think the money should be spent within each local area and on where it should be spent citywide. There’s still time to cast your vote, but HURRY: voting closes this Friday at 6pm!

Continue reading Still time to cast youth vote in NW Edinburgh