[cma-l] Big Society Network Your Local Budget: Pioneer Areas Announced

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From: http://thebigsociety.co.uk/your-local-budget/your-local-budget-pioneer-areas-announced/
Posted by Emily Fennell • 24.11.10

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Here at the Big Society Network we are delighted to be able to
announce nine of the areas who will be working with us on Your Local
Budget.

The programme is designed to harness the knowledge, ideas and capacity
of local people to find more innovative and effective solutions to the
financial and other challenges that face public services. It will also
increase public engagement on vital issues, improve trust and offer a
greater role for local people in the design and delivery of services.

The areas taking part in the programme are:

• Norfolk County Council

• Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

• Manton Community Alliance, in Nottinghamshire

• Herefordshire Association of Local Councils

• Dulverton Town Council, in Somerset

• Sheffield City Council

• Liverpool City Council

• London Borough of Tower Hamlets

• Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead

Over the coming months, The Big Society Network and the National
Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), with support
from the Participatory Budgeting Unit, will be working with these
areas to develop new ways to involve local people in tough spending
decisions, building on the pioneering approaches to Participatory
Budgeting that have been developed around the world.

For a full version of the press release click here:

http://thebigsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Local-Budget-Pioneers-press-release-24th-November.doc

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