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RE: National PB conference in UK
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Jez Hall
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Aug 07, 2008 13:18 PDT
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Hello Josh,
Thank you for circulating news of our national conference. It is certainly
exciting times in the UK, as we have seemed to have gained great support
from National Government and local governments, and been able to push
forward our work considerably in the last year. Many local authorities now
begin to start forms of participatory budgeting.
We have new documents online on our website, such as the consultation on
values, principles and standards for PB in the UK (now closed, but about to
produce the final version which we will be publishing soon) (see
http://www.participatorybudgeting.org.uk/about/values-principles-and-standar
ds-for-pb-in-the-uk).
We are also exploring work with young people, in rural communities, in
relation to health, transport and policing. Our website has many short
videos to view and other resources I hope of interest to an international
audience.
Of course we are aware that as we gain financial support from and influence
over elected officials and the professional civil servants that make up our
government, so we risk powers with lower standards of community empowerment
gaining influence over the work, and - as has been describe elsewhere - the
danger of 'pasteurisation' or the compromising of the full empowering
potential of PB. Experiences in Porto Alegre itself show the dangers of PB
being rolled back without a constitutional framework. In the UK we hope we
hope we are closer to some of those constitutional guarantees, and relations
with national government leaders is very good.
The friendly critique of colleagues involved in the Listserv on PB in the UK
will help us in our work, as your efforts developing the Listserv has
undoubtedly helped ours.
Yours
Jez Hall
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Lerner [mailto:jo-@linesofflight.net]
Sent: 06 August 2008 17:13
To: PB Listserv
Subject: [PB] National PB conference in UK
Making Spending Count?
A national conference on Participatory Budgeting and its role in
Community Empowerment. Organised and hosted by the Participatory
Budgeting Unit and supported by the Department for Communities and Local
Government. Keynote speaker: Rt. Hon. Hazel Blears MP, Secretary of
State for Communities and Local Government.
Date: Monday 15th September 2008
Venue: Midland Hotel, Manchester
Full costs: Private & public sector - £200; Community & voluntary sector
- £100. Bursaries may be available.
Contact: ma-@participatorybudeting.org.uk for more information and to book.
More info:
http://www.participatorybudgeting.org.uk/events/national-participatory-budge
ting-conference
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The Participatory Budgeting Network
Listserv: http://lists.topica.com/lists/participatorybudgeting
Resource Site: http://www.ParticipatoryBudgeting.org
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