Communities played their part in directing almost £6m of South Ayrshire Council’s budget to projects last year, almost three times the amount they had targeted.
Participatory budgeting is designed to give local people a more direct say in how and where public funds can be used to address local issues.
Hundreds of projects across South Ayrshire’s six ‘localities’ have been chosen at special ‘decision days’ since participatory budgeting was introduced in 2016.
