Shetland community choices
Shetland Community Choices is a PB project that involved residents in prioritising how they’d like to see £100,000 spent on local projects and services. It aimed to engage residents from all parts of the community to discuss priorities that will benefit the community or solve a particular issue, and then to vote on them.
More than 1,000 Shetland residents voted during the process to fund projects in the Shetland Community Choices initiative.
When voting closed a total of 5,730 votes had been cast to decide which of twenty projects would receive a share of £100,000 of funding.
6 projects, on a variety of priorities, received funding. External funding advice and information will be shared with projects that have not been awarded funding.
Jonathan Belford, Executive Manager – Finance, said: “Shetland Community Choices has been successful in engaging the public in making decisions about how Council funding is used to meet community priorities. The number of participants has exceeded our expectations and demonstrates a keen interest from the community in this new way of working. We hope that at least one of your favourite projects has been awarded funding, and we will continue to involve the community in delivering the projects that have been successful.”