Jez Hall

Use it or lose it. Democracy is a habit we all need to commit to

Take part in our new Green PB Organisers Network - Shared Future Shared Future CIC has funding from the Network For Social Change Charitable Trust (NSCCT) to establish mentoring, advice and support for a new network of Green Participatory Budgeting Organisers. Time...

Sharing a new project I'll be leading, to develop citizen action on green or climate #participatorybudgeting. Check it out be a part of it. More information on the link... If you are are interested in joining you can also fill out our short google form.
sharedfuturecic.org.uk/take-part-in...

Loved working on this #youthempowerment project. And great to see the video. Definitely worth 3 mins to watch the passion from doing #participatorybudgeting in action 👍

Watch the last in the series of short videos about Your Pots! Can't wait till the next round is underway #participatorybudgeting

YouTube video by Shared Future CIC Your Pots Your Say Short 2: Participant Pitches

📣 3rd video in 3 weeks. We're on fire🔥. This one explores some of the applicants at 'Your Pots, Your Say' in Lancaster last Nov'. £50k...The community decides. #participatorybudgeting #RegenerativeEconomy. Find out more at sharedfuturecic.org.uk/your-pots-pa... watch the video👇
youtu.be/a2BBP3CisoY

Lovely to see the responses to Your Pots, and remembering being at a great event

YouTube video by Shared Future CIC Your Pots Your Say Short 1: Participants thoughts

Following our recent posting of the Your Pots main video last week, here is one of the shorts! What participants felt about being involved in Your Pots Your Say... Using #ParticipatoryBudgeting, each group was bidding for up to £10,000 to develop a #regenerativeeconomy project.
youtu.be/0vYoGuxuTks

YouTube video by Shared Future CIC Your Pots Your Say 2024

Meet the people behind North Lancashire's #participatorybudgeting and find out how it gets more local people involved in deciding which projects get funded.
Watch the new short film made by Lancaster Film Initiative at the last Your Pots – Your Say community voting day:
youtu.be/ry0qvSLmAhg

Hanging out in North Manchester for the exciting Choose for Cheetham £200k youth #participatorybudgeting. The voting boxes are reay And the room starting to fill. #chooseforcheetham.

It's finally here. Excited to see the launch of our latest #citizensjury report. Museums are our cultural representatives over time. Let see them celebrate and include everyone. #deliberativedemocracy

Edinburgh declares Scotland's first visitor levy Jane Meagher declares Edinburgh's intention to proceed with a visitor levy scheme.

Watching closely what happens and how the £2m over 3 years for #participatorybudgeting in Edinburgh will play out. Great there is a dedicated income to democratic citizen participation. www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article...

Big cultural institutions matter in setting the tone for an inclusive, fair and equal society. Not least if they get significant public funding (and they should, esp. outside the capital city). It's sad that so many everyday people never cross their threshold, when they have so much to offer us all.

I enjoyed it, especially hearing about Birmingham Museum Trust's citizen jury, the report and recommendatikns of which are due to drop soon. #deliberativedemocracy @sharedfuture.bsky.social

Look whats going down... Looking forward to the results @sharedfuture.bsky.social

Great article, thanks for sharing 👇

Green PB... yes please

Participatory Budgeting Survey 2025 Does this form look suspicious? Report

Is 2025 the year of #participatorybudgeting in the UK? We invite you to do our short survey. We're collecting information about who, what and why people are doing (or want to do) more to engage citizens in shaping their local services.
Complete the survey here: 👇 👇

It's looking likely that some income from Edinburgh's proposed new Transient Visitor Levy may be distributed by #ParticipatoryBudgeting in the near future, so Leith Chooses may be one to watch for folk interested in local government too...

It was great to be at Your Pots in Lancaster last month. The passion, energy and networking on display was inspiring. Find out what happened and which #regenerative economy organisations were successful in securing funding. #participatorybudgeting

The 2024 Pots of Possibility ‘Your Pots’ grants are (provisionally) awarded to... - FoodFutures Participatory budgeting is coming to North Lancashire. The Your Pots grants of between £5,000 and £10,000 are to support projects that will have a positive, long-term impact on the environment and peo...

Yours Pots is a NLCF funded #participatorybudgeting project in Lancaster District. On the 16th Nov the community came together to award grants of up to £10k to local projects building a #regenerative economy. Find out more here 😁 👇
foodfutures.org.uk/2024-your-po...

At @sharedfuture.bsky.social we love mixing things up, and using creative ways to do democracy. That's why we are excited to recommend "www.ThePeopleAct.org", a new resource site for #legislativetheatre by Katy Rubin. Check it out. www.thepeopleact.org

Social Enterprise Day: Be Inspired, Pitch for £500 and Grow your network Join us at Social Enterprise Day for inspiration, a chance to pitch for £500, and expand your network!

We love a Soup event! On Thursday, November 21st, there is an inspiring evening celebrating Social Enterprise Day with the Manchester Social Economy Alliance, the Manchester Social Entrepreneurs Network and Flourish Together!
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Your Pots 2024 - LDCVS - Lancaster District Community & Voluntary Solutions The Pots of Possibility ‘Your Pots’ fund is giving grants of between £5000 and £10,000 to local projects that can help regenerate North Lancashire’s environment and build healthy thriving communities ...

On Saturday, Nov 16th, the £50k Lancaster Your Pots regenerative economy grants are being decided. Each project has made a short video. They will be played at the community voting day. Find out more, watch the videos, come along. Your Pots Videos are online at lancastercvs.org.uk/your-pots-20...

Cover of the report in green, black and white: Reviving the commons? A scoping review of urban and digital commoning James Henderson and Oliver Escobar August 2024 Data Civics Observatory - Edinburgh Futures Institute

Blurb from the website of the report: This report explores the contemporary revival of commoning practices in urban and digital contexts. The authors, James Henderson and Oliver Escobar, delve into the historical roots, current manifestations, and future potential of the commons as a paradigm for socioeconomic transformation, democratic innovation and sustainable community governance. The review aims to contribute to the growing discourse on the commons, highlighting its significance in contemporary societies and its potential as an alternative to traditional forms of socioeconomic and political organisation via the state and/or the market. Practitioners in the field argue that we are witnessing a revival of the commons in the 21st century. This report interrogates the nature of that revival and explores key concepts, examples, trends and debates in theory and practice, while outlining an emerging research agenda.

📚We just published 'Reviving the commons? A scoping review of urban and digital commoning'. A study supported by Data Civics Observatory @allartmarkets.bsky.social at Edinburgh Futures Institute to explore the potential of the #commons to mend our troubled worlds 👉🏽 efi.ed.ac.uk/reviving-the...