Category Archives: Participatory budgeting

Using Eventbrite for Offline Consultations

If you’re looking for a better way to organise your offline budget consultations, I’ve blogged about why Eventbrite is a great tool for this.

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Does Budget Simulator help increase engagement within the budget consultation process?

“We never used to get that level of response from using paper surveys on budget consultation” – Walsall Council Prior to using Budget Simulator South Yorkshire Police Authority (SYPA) used to run focus groups which engaged 30-40 people. Following a … Continue reading

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Engaging young people: Moray launch the Budget Challenge

An interactive budgeting challenge built by Delib has been launched by the Moray Community Planning Partnership focused on getting 16-24 year olds engaged on budgeting issues. Moray Council is currently formally consulting on its budget proposals and the Budget Challenge … Continue reading

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Heather talks about Delib’s open budget data project

Our Open Data project with iShed and Bristol City Council has been a white knuckle rollercoaster of data acquisition resulting in no data and a revision of our project. In this video Chris asks me (mildly) searching questions about our … Continue reading

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