Guide to Evaluating the Wellbeing impacts of Participatory Budgeting

This new guide and toolkit reflects on recent experiences of Participatory Budgeting (PB) within the Gwent area of Wales, from early 2020 to January 2023.

Produced by Shared Future, following qualitative research in Gwent, and building on our long experience of community empowerment, it focusses primarily on the wellbeing impacts of PB.

It contains overviews of the different processes delivered across Gwent, based on reviewing written reports, undertaking interviews with those leading the processes, engagement with members of the Integrated Wellbeing Network (IWN) that supports PB in Gwent, and with community members and groups involved, as bidders or voters, or in other ways.

Download the guide here.