The participatory budgeting scheme in Leith is now underway.
There is a pot of money – £52,000 – made available from council coffers and the Tram to Newhaven project, and locals can vote for what it should be spent on. Any project may apply for a maximum of £5,000.
Voting details are here and is open to anyone who is older than eight-years-old and who lives, works, studies or volunteers in Leith. Voting ends on 5 February 2024.
And there will be a community voting day on Saturday 27th January 2024 (from 11am to 3pm), at the Leith Community Centre (12A Newkirkgate, Leith, EH6 6AD).
- Voters may vote twice if they wish to: once in-person at the voting event and once online.
- If voting twice, voters should tick the box on the online voting form, to state this.
- If voting twice, voters can cast the same votes in-person as online, or choose different projects each time they vote.
- All voters get 4 votes (or 2×4 votes for those choosing to vote twice).
- 3 of the 4 votes will be cast for 3 different favourite projects – only one vote per project – out of the total number of project applications.
- The 4th vote (which is optional) is known as the ‘Boost vote’. Having already cast their first three votes, all voters can choose to cast an extra vote to support a minority ethnic project. This can be a second vote for a project they’ve already voted for, or it can be a new, extra vote for a different project.
Find out more about each project below – in randomised order) and for all details click on the image below.
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