The CGF & Participatory Budgeting
The Community Empowerment and Engagement Team are getting in touch to invite Community Councils and local communities across Edinburgh to express interest in allocating the Community Grants Fund (CGF) in your area through a participatory budget process, similar in kind to LeithChooses.
Express your interest by completing this form no later than Friday 31st October. Please note that you will also be required to evidence that there is wider community support for this in your neighbourhood area.
The current CGF process
The CGF is currently split into thirteen funding pots, each covering a different geographical area of the city. Funding is administered and recommendations are made via voluntary funding panels in 12 of the 13 neighbourhood areas across the city. Leith is the exception, where recommendations are made via a public voting process called participatory budgeting via LeithChooses.
What is participatory budgeting?
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which citizens decide directly how to spend part of a public budget. You can read more about what PB is via the PB Scotland website. It’s worth noting that PB can take a variety of different forms and any new PB model adopted within the city would be bespoke to the needs of that community, and the council resources available.
Links to recent local publications
It has been suggested that website visitors might find the following links to local online publications helpful. These are the C & B News, Colinton Newsletter and Dell Directory
Other links to relevant websites are in our LINKS page
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