Participatory Budgeting: Your Community, Your Money, You Decide!

Your Community, Your Money, You Decide! is the third phase of Tackling Poverty through Participatory Budgeting (PB) Funding which is specifically designed to give people the opportunity to make decisions on funding for anti-poverty projects within their local area. We want to ensure that local people and communities are at the heart of our decision making. Together we we'll be able to achieve more and better outcomes for our local communities through PB.

2019/20 Voting Events

How it works

We are introducing Participatory Budgeting for 1% of our budget to let local communities directly influence spending decisions in their areas.

We will do this by:

working with people in your community to identify local priorities
generating solutions to meet local priorities
choosing the most popular solutions

What we are doing in 2019/2020

PB Funding Phase 3 Tackling Poverty - Your Community, Your Money, You Decide!

£200,000 of Tackling Poverty Through Participatory Budgeting Funding is being made available for projects developed by community groups which will help to meet all of the following outcomes:

Rural isolation particularly rural transport
Fuel poverty
Food and eating
Financial Planning and Wellbeing Courses
Developing hands on experience and new life skills through employment, peer group engagement and volunteering

The total funding pot available for each of our areas is detailed below:

Area	Amount Allocated
Annandale & Eskdale	£38,140
Nithsdale	£85,340
Stewartry	£26,020
Wigtown	£50,500
Total	£200,000

Applications are now closed for grants of between £100 and £5,000 - the final date for submitting project proposals was Friday 31 January 2020.

Public Voting Events - Dates, Times & Locations

This year we are offering more opportunities for everyone over the age of 12 to vote in person at all of the following Public Voting Events. Please see below details of each of the applications within our four Areas who are applying for funding this year:

PB Online Voting

We also have a new website this year which offers you the chance to vote online. Please access the link below which will take you to the site. All you need to do is complete a simple registration process then vote for three organisations which you wish to choose within your local Area.

Visit our PB Voting site

Voting is open from 9:00am on Saturday 29 February 2020 and will close at midnight on Saturday 4 April 2020.

You can choose to vote either through the online voting website above or by voting in in person at one of the PB Voting Events within your local area (Wigtownshire, Stewartry, Nithsdale or Annandale & Eskdale). You cannot vote more than once in this process.

Date (Saturday)	Ward No. & Name	Venue	Time of Event (refreshments will be provided)
29 February 2020	1 Stranraer & The Rhins	Stranraer Academy Stranraer	11:00am - 2:30pm
29 February 2020	3 Dee & Glenkens	Kirkcudbright Academy Kirkcudbright	11:00am - 2:30pm
7 March 2020	2 Mid Galloway & Wigtown West	Douglas Ewart High School Newton Stewart	11:00am - 2:30pm
7 March 2020	4 Castle Douglas & Crocketford	Castle Douglas Primary School Castle Douglas	11:00am - 2:30pm
14 March 2020	5 Abbey	Dalbeattie Learning Campus Dalbeattie	11:00am - 2:30pm
14 March 2020	7 Mid & Upper Nithsdale	Sanquhar Academy Sanquhar	11:00am - 2:30pm
21 March 2020	6 North West Dumfries	North West Community Campus Dumfries	11:00am - 2:30pm
21 March 2020	8 Lochar 9 Nith	St. Joseph's College Dumfries	11:00am - 2:30pm
28 March 2020	10 Annandale South	Annan Academy Annan	11:00am - 2:30pm
28 March 2020	11 Annandale North	Lockerbie Academy Lockerbie	11:00am - 2:30pm
4 April 2020	12 Annandale East & Eskdale	Langholm Academy Langholm	11:00am - 2:30pm

Further information

For more information, please e-mail the Tackling Poverty and Inequalities Team on Challenge.Poverty@dumgal.gov.uk or call 01387 260243.

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Page last updated: 28/02/2020