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PB Unit

Manchester, UK

We are the participatory budgeting unit, based in Manchester, we work across the UK promoting and implementing participatory budgeting. We are a charity project and although funded by central government, we are independent of it.

PB Unit is at home at www.participatorybudgeting.org.uk.

Recently, PB Unit...

  • commented on Vote for your Park: nothing but a bad idea? about 1 year ago.

    Wow - you have actually written something that has caused me to sign up to a site so I can post a comment!  It is Ruth, by the way, but I am writing on behalf of the PBU.  We have really mixed views about this.  On the one hand, as you say, they are doing something and involving people so in that respect maybe it's better than not involving people.  But then the way that they have involved them has the potential to be quite detrimental to PB and to put people off PB comp...