Shared Future CIC

23/02/2026

📣 Join our free lunchtime webinar: Pride in Places and Participatory Budgeting. March 17th 2026 at 12pm on ZOOM. Click the event page to find out more and to book! 👇
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/GBDO

What is the potential in areas (and within other local regeneration initiatives) of adopting the democratic practise of , one of the suggested interventions under the Pride in Places guidance.

Exploring how to undertake a community grant making process, and give residents a fair, democratic and active decision making role, over larger sums of public money.

Delivered by Jez Hall of Shared Future CIC, and linked to his recent blog on the topic, available on the Shared Future News page. Shared Future CIC have been supporting participatory budgeting processes for over 15 years, at different scales and in many different communities.

23/09/2025

Great initiative... sign the citizen pledge below

This question was put to the Cumbria Climate Assembly - a group of 40 people from across Cumbria, chosen by sortition (lottery), who spent 30 hours hearing expert evidence, discussing and debating.

Read the Assembly's 17 urgent recommendations and show your support by signing the charter 👉 https://zerocarboncumbria.co.uk/leading-change/cumbria-climate-assembly-charter/

Shared Future CIC

15/09/2025

How do we all get down to the Democracy Gym, and strengthen our citizenship muscles? Practice makes perfect. Democracy is so much more than a X on a ballot form (though that is important too of course.).
. , , , , ... all the types of democratic exercise we need!

Read our 2025 BLOG. 👇
More than an X on a Ballot.
https://sharedfuturecic.org.uk/democracy-more-than-an-x-on-a-ballot/

04/06/2025

📣 Our Green Organisers project is underway, and we have started meeting people who have expressed an interest in being involved.
We've already had a great response from Scotland to the South of England. There is still time to become one of our local PB organisers, as we'll be taking expressions of interest throughout June.
If you are passionate 💓 about tackling the 🥵 🌍 and want to try to influence the millions of pounds 💷 being spent in your area on a there is still time to join in.
Grateful for any shares and reposts too 😊
Find out more and sign up here: 👇

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 is running short to protect our planet and achieve Net Zero. Greater citizen power behind the clima...

28/05/2025

We'd like to share a new project, and invite expressions of interest in joining it. It aims to develop citizen action on green or climate . 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.

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 is running short to protect our planet and achieve Net Zero. Greater citizen power behind the clima...

11/04/2025

💥 Youth is having their Say 💥 Loving the video from , where young people and applicants voted on £230,000 funding (yes, that's right... £230K) for youth development activities in Cheetham Hill, in Manchester through .

📢 Over 100 young people, 21 youth organisations, and £200,000 in funding - Young People Take the Lead in funding decisions!Hosted at the Ukrainian Cultural ...

18/03/2025

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17/03/2025

In the 3rd and final short video of Your Pots we hear more from applicants what they wanted from being part of a . Closing Loops will be launching another round of funding later this year. Find out more at https://foodfutures.org.uk/pots-of-possibility/
What the video below👇and a shout out to our partners and funders: FoodFutures: North Lancashire Lancaster District CVS LESS
The National Lottery Community Fund

06/03/2025

Lovely to see the results starting to flow from Your Pots and

04/03/2025

Our 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 was available...the community decides. . FoodFutures: North Lancashire. Find out more at https://sharedfuturecic.org.uk/your-pots-participatory-grantmaking-2024/ ... watch the video below👇
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25/02/2025

Following the Your Pots main video shared last week, here is one of the shorts! What participants felt about being involved in Your Pots Your Say... Using , each group was bidding for up to £10,000 to develop a project.
Find out more about Your Pots Your Say on our or the FoodFutures website.

On 16th November 2024, eleven local charities and community organisations gathered in Lancaster for the second “Your Pots – Your Say” community voting day. I...