Tag: participatory budgeting

£eith Chooses this Saturday

Participatory Budgeting event: Leith Community Centre

Saturday 23rd February 12 – 3pm

There are 30 applicants to £eith Chooses – 8 for the ‘Food’ theme, and 22 for the ‘Supporting Vulnerable People’ theme. Lots of really great project ideas!

View them all here in the ‘£eith Chooses Gallery’.

Before the 23rd February

  • If you would like to come and vote, but cannot get to the Community Centre under your own steam, please let us know asap and we’ll try and arrange help for you to attend.
  • If you are bringing younger children, you may wish to book them in to the free creche (for both applicants and voters). Please get in touch to book them in, in advance (places limited – first come, first served).

Email Caroline.Lamond@edinburgh.gov.uk for either / both of the above

On the day

Come early, if you can – doors open at 12 – don’t leave it to the last minute, because:

  • it may get busy at Registration, and at the ballot boxes
  • you will want plenty time to chat to project groups on their ‘stalls’
  • there will be lovely free food on offer, but it may start to run out …
  • your kids may want to get glitter tattoos or face-painting done
  • under 8s may need help with the new ‘Kids Vote’ (for the ‘Best Stall’)…

Community Choices Fund: More people to have their say on how money is spent in their neighbourhoods

Communities will benefit from a share of £1.75 million to increase the numbers of people involved in making decisions about investment in their local areas. Continue reading Community Choices Fund: More people to have their say on how money is spent in their neighbourhoods

Voice Your Choice: voting event in North West Edinburgh

Voice Your Choice Voting Event NW

Edinburgh’s employability themed participatory budgeting programme has moved into the voting stages and you are invited to attend the voting event in your locality where you can learn more about the employability projects on offer, and vote for those you would like to see become a reality in your locality. Continue reading Voice Your Choice: voting event in North West Edinburgh

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.