Residents of Eastfield voted on how £32,000 should be spent on projects addressing crime and community safety issues. As well as local people voting for projects at the ‘Decision Day’ in June 2009, residents played a key role in the design and delivery of the process.
Three Blaby Community Forum PB events were undertaken in June 2009, leading to the city-wide "Leicestershire Together" Participatory Budgeting process.
Throughout 2010, local and central Services for Communities (The City of Edinburgh Council) staff explored the use of a Participatory Budgeting (PB) approach as a way to make local democracy relevant to community interests. Annual surveys have shown that Leith people don’t feel able to influence what happens in their...