New blog! We're part of new group 'Participatory Budgeting Works' in Northern Ireland - launching tomorrow at #ImagineBelfast festival. Read about it all on our blog here: https://t.co/rWBKPHVEWq
See you there! #PBworks#Belfast#Newry
🆕📖 We’ve supported councils and communities in Scotland to use digital tools for #ParticipatoryBudgeting since 2016. Find out what we’ve learned in our new report https://t.co/tRoerg6EpZ
We’re sharing our digital engagement expertise and learning from Scotland through #PBWorks group- and today we have Bill Fraser one of the PB Champions at @pb_scotland here too, talking about communities capacity to change things and his experience of #ParticipatoryBudgeting
The final #ParticipatoryBudgeting roadshow event! We’re in #Irvinestown to talk about #PBWorks raising awareness and talking about the (free!) support available for those wanting to pilot a community engagement and resourcing process. More info here: https://t.co/OYIKrVOJUq
Mentoring can be a key element in the delivery of successful #PBWorks projects! Support & help is available... securing funding is only the beginning @UKPBNetwork@DemsocNI
We’re in Derry/Londonderry today for the next Participatory Budgeting Works awareness raising event - sharing our expertise in digital / online engagement and learning from Scotland too
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Our @egwiltshire social reporter for the Open Government Network Conference today - bringing in the questions from school pupils at satellite event watching the livestream and taking part from @St_Rochs#ReimagineDemocracy
Great to see #participatorybudgeting coming through strongly in the commitments being discussed in groups here too at the Open Government Network conference - hopefully #PBWorks group can build on this in NI too #ReimagineDemocracy https://t.co/JwafxTRDli
What about having participatory budgeting sessions in schools so young people can vote on what they think is important in their neighbourhoods? #ReimagineDemocracy
Our second #ParticiatoryBudgetingWorks event in #Newry today - lots of questions and actions, and interest in taking up the support available - applications due by 11 May https://t.co/k3vYTYgHsS #pbworks
Our next Participatory Budgeting Works event in #Newry today #PBworks - find out about upcoming events and pilot training offer on the new website https://t.co/k3vYTYgHsS
What a wonderful introduction to Participatory Budgeting, if you want to learn about how you could use this in your community visit https://t.co/fZGU95FXBV #DemocracyDay
Louise O'Kane closing out PB session by explaining the #pbworks training & support offer. See website for details plus also help us get word out for other upcoming events in Newry, Derry & Irvinestown https://t.co/wogTDuEqGl #DemocracyDay
Housing Associations can do participatory budgeting too - hearing about @TriangleHousing experience of PB - ideas like turning green space into golf and putting greens! 🏌️♂️⛳️They heard new ideas that service delivery managers might not have thought of.
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“Our partners the Democratic Society have been really involved in doing the research on what works when you go online” - thanks @UKPBNetwork. Talk to us about #digitalengagement and our learning from our 2 year programme on online PB in Scotland (as seen on slides)📱💻
.@UKPBNetwork is talking about variety of conditions that have led PB to develop globally, like political vaccums or political leadership - but check that longgg list of people doing PB in Scotland 🏴 we’re here to share some of that learning! #DemocracyDay#PBworks