Jez Hall
@jezsfcic.bsky.social
Director at Shared Future CIC, passionate about #participatorybudgeting, #citizensassemblies and #deliberativedemocracy. Follow us @sharedfuture.bsky.social
Use it or lose it. Democracy is a habit we all need to commit to
How do we all get down to the Democracy Gym, and strengthen our citizenship muscles?
#ParticipatoryBudgeting, #Sortition, #DeliberativeDemocracy, ... all the types of democratic exercise we need!
Our Day of Democracy 2025 BLOG. 👇
More than an X on a Ballot.
sharedfuturecic.org.uk/democracy-mo...
#ParticipatoryBudgeting, #Sortition, #DeliberativeDemocracy, ... all the types of democratic exercise we need!
Our Day of Democracy 2025 BLOG. 👇
More than an X on a Ballot.
sharedfuturecic.org.uk/democracy-mo...
September 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Use it or lose it. Democracy is a habit we all need to commit to
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...
sharedfuturecic.org.uk/take-part-in...
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...
sharedfuturecic.org.uk
May 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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...
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 👍
💥 Youth is having their Say 💥 Loving the video from #chooseforcheetham2025, 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 #participatorybudgeting.
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Choose for Cheetham - Children and Young People Take the Lead in Funding Decisions!
YouTube video by Young Manchester
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April 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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
In the 3rd short of Your Pots we hear from applicants what they wanted from being part of a#regenerativeeconomy #participatorybudgeting. We'll be launching another round of funding later this year. Find out more at foodfutures.org.uk/pots-of-poss... Watch the video below 👇
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Your Pots Your Say Short 3: Participant Pitches
YouTube video by Shared Future CIC
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March 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Watch the last in the series of short videos about Your Pots! Can't wait till the next round is underway #participatorybudgeting
Reposted by Jez Hall
📣 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👇
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Your Pots Your Say Short 2: Participant Pitches
YouTube video by Shared Future CIC
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March 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
📣 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
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Lovely to see the responses to Your Pots, and remembering being at a great event
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
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Your Pots Your Say Short 1: Participants thoughts
YouTube video by Shared Future CIC
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February 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Lovely to see the responses to Your Pots, and remembering being at a great event
Reposted by Jez Hall
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
youtu.be/0vYoGuxuTks
Your Pots Your Say Short 1: Participants thoughts
YouTube video by Shared Future CIC
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February 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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
youtu.be/0vYoGuxuTks
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
Watch the new short film made by Lancaster Film Initiative at the last Your Pots – Your Say community voting day:
youtu.be/ry0qvSLmAhg
Your Pots Your Say 2024
YouTube video by Shared Future CIC
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February 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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
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.
February 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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
The 1st ever #citizensjury in a museum in the UK. We are excited to see how other cultural institutions build on its learnings. Zak and Sara, co-CEOs of Birmingham Museums Trust, say: “This is a significant step forward for BMT. A new chapter in the city’s museums story."
Launch of the Birmingham Museums' Trust Citizen Jury report - Shared Future
On the 30th January 2025 the residents of Birmingham who took part in this citizen’s jury presented their recommendations from the past four months to the Birmingham Museums Trust leadership team,…
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January 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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
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...
Edinburgh declares Scotland's first visitor levy
Jane Meagher declares Edinburgh's intention to proceed with a visitor levy scheme.
www.edinburgh.gov.uk
January 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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.
“The ideas that are coming out of it are really thrilling and exciting!”
Sara Wajid, @Birmingham Museum Co-CEO, on the experience of holding the UK’s first citizens’ jury in a museum.
We've really enjoyed helping make it happen!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#history #citizensassembly #sortition
Sara Wajid, @Birmingham Museum Co-CEO, on the experience of holding the UK’s first citizens’ jury in a museum.
We've really enjoyed helping make it happen!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#history #citizensassembly #sortition
Rethink - Rethink... museums - BBC Sounds
What are museums for?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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
Had such fun recording today’s Rethink Museums, where I got to wear a hard hat and walk around the new London Museum site AND debate museum funding and what to do with mummies with @stephenkb.bsky.social, Sara Wajid, and @tonybutler1.bsky.social Do give it a listen.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Sounds - Rethink, Rethink... museums
What are museums for?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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
zerocarboncumbria.co.uk/news/cumbria... Cumbria 10,000 randomly selected household will receive an invitation letter to the Cumbria Climate Assembly 2025. The Climate Assembly will bring people with diverse views together to discuss climate change and explore what can be done about it.
Cumbria Climate Assembly - invite letters arriving soon! - Zero Carbon Cumbria - Carbon reduction action across the county.
10,000 randomly selected household will receive an invitation letter to the Cumbria Climate Assembly. The Assembly will bring people with diverse views, from all walks of life together to discuss clim...
zerocarboncumbria.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Look whats going down... Looking forward to the results @sharedfuture.bsky.social
Great article, thanks for sharing 👇
Inspiring conversation on ecologies of democracy, #commoning, #deliberativedemocracy and #participatorydemocracy. At Shared Future, we really like this approach, and also the realism of Sonia Bussu.
A governance commons to support the commons economy? Conversation with Dr Sonia Bussu
Dave Darby of Lowimpact.org and Stroud Commons in conversation with Sonia Bussu, Associate Professor in Public Policy at the University of Birmingham and project lead for INSPIRE (looking at…
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January 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Great article, thanks for sharing 👇
Green PB... yes please
Climate themed #participatorybudgeting is a no brainer 💡 Lets get everyone on board, by following the lead of the £1m green PB in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray. ☀️🌡️🌳 Find out more at:
Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund
Thousands of you across the North East and Moray took part in the public vote during November 2024 and had your say over where the £1million Year 3 JTPB Fund should be spent.
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January 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Green PB... yes please
Reposted by Jez Hall
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: 👇 👇
Complete the survey here: 👇 👇
Participatory Budgeting Survey 2025
Does this form look suspicious? Report
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January 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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: 👇 👇
Complete the survey here: 👇 👇
Reposted by Jez Hall
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...
January 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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
We’re building a #RegenerativeEconomy in Lancaster District through #ParticipatoryBudgeting.
Read our new blog to find out more about the latest round of successfully-funded community projects.
sharedfuturecic.org.uk/your-pots-pa...
Read our new blog to find out more about the latest round of successfully-funded community projects.
sharedfuturecic.org.uk/your-pots-pa...
December 5, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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
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...
foodfutures.org.uk/2024-your-po...
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...
foodfutures.org.uk
December 3, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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...
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
November 14, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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
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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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!
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November 14, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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!
www.eventbrite.com/e/social-ent...
www.eventbrite.com/e/social-ent...
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...
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 ...
lancastercvs.org.uk
November 14, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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...
Reposted by Jez Hall
📚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...
September 17, 2024 at 9:19 AM
📚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...