Coming up soon, for those interested in the rapidly increasing popularity of PB in the United Kingdom:
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
More info:
http://www.participatorybudgeting.org.uk/events/national-participatory-budgeting-conference

Hi
Thanks for publicising our conference - it's much appreciated. We have already got quite a lot of people coming and some really good speakers so I think it's going to be an interesting and useful event.
Posted by: Ruth | August 07, 2008 at 03:58 AM