ON the evening of Thursday the 14th September nine months of multi-agency collaboration culminated in the delivery of a World Café at Revoe School in Blackpool. This is part of a MutualGain initiative from the Home Office which trains staff to engage with communities in a completely different way. The aim of the café is[…]
Carly Griffith – our new Intern for Health and Inequality, shares her thoughts on her first week at MutualGain. Monday 17th July 2017 – First meeting with MutualGain. The day started off with an early morning train down to Birmingham, where the meeting was set to take place at Moseley[…]
On Saturday 6th March, Andrew and Owen from MutualGain spent the day at ‘Unity in the Community‘ Participatory Budgeting (PB) event at the Greek Cypriot Association in Birmingham. The events was the culmination of training and support provided by MutualGain to the Birmingham East neighbourhood police team, partners and active citizens. Throughout this period a[…]
MutualGain were pleased to sponsor the West Midlands Association of Women in Policing Awards 2017 ceremony at Fazley Studios in Birmingham on Friday 3rd February. The awards ceremony looked to celebrate the achievement of women working across the West Midlands Police force area, with serving police officers, police staff and partners all recognised for[…]
This week has been an interesting blend of art, culture, politics and work. Start of the week: As I roamed the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam I was reminded that you don’t need to like all art, but your life is more fulfilled if you’re willing to explore and learn what you do and don’t[…]
This blog is one of a series published on the PB Network pages following the 2016 International Participatory Budgeting Conference attended by MutualGain in October, 2016. Here, Dr Andrew Fisher gives reflections on his workshop presentation: Two weeks ago I presented a workshop at the International PB conference on the use of PB in relation[…]
MutualGain’s Dr Andrew Fisher recently supported Cheshire East Council to deliver a Participatory Budgeting process in Handforth last month which saw £20,000 shared between five groups based upon voting by members of the community. The process was part of a £400,000 investment by Cheshire East Council in improving the health of residents across the borough, and[…]
Second Generation PB: Reflections on key messages from the PB Conference, Scotland: by Susan Ritchie I love this term – it’s like the phrase wave two of feminism! Marking out differences along the journey and how people change and adapt practice as they implement their thinking. I hope second generation PB will be more positive[…]
Digital PB Workshop at the International PB conference on 20th October 2016: Reflections from Susan Ritchie, Acting UK PB Network Chair and Director of MutualGain I have just left the exceptionally good international PB conference held in Edinburgh by the Scottish Government, in partnership with the PB Partners and the SCDC. Well done to[…]
A guest blog by Susan Ritchie, describing her recent visit to China to exchange learning on PB. The Invitation PB Partners supports Participatory Budgeting as a method of improving democracy, community engagement, and wider social justice across the UK. PB in all of its forms (of which there are many emerging) enables communities or organisations[…]
