Number thirteen of our seminars was Participatory Budgeting
Alan Budge, who lives in Buxton and helped to write the Buxton Economic Resilience Study (2016) has worked to support the development of Participatory Budgeting (PB) across the UK for the last 15 years, working with Local Authorities, the Police, Housing Trusts, community organisations and residents. Since 2014 he has been working with the Scottish Government on the national roll-out of PB, offering direct training and support to PB programmes across Scotland. He has a particular interest in ‘Green’ Participatory Budgeting, where community decision-making can be harnessed to help address the challenges posted by climate change. Alan shared his ‘Our Planet, Our Money’ themed Ted Talk then discussed how these tools and methods could be used locally to increase local influence or local public spending.
Alan produced a report last year entitled, ‘Our Money, Our Planet‘, which covers the ground regarding PB and they believe, the climate crisis.