This is your chance to vote for how money is spent in your community.
Voting for Small Grants proposals and the Place-Based Capital Projects has now closed. Results will be announced shortly afterwards.
How it works
- Find and select the Council ward you live in below. Not sure? Check the map below.
- Read about the proposals in your ward.
- Vote for the proposals you want to see funded.
Which area are you in?
If you're not sure which area you are in, have a look at the map below.
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About this map
Click on the map to see the ward information for that area.
Voting
Online voting is used to select the preferred projects in each ward. In addition, we offer a range of drop-in locations where paper ballots are available for each ward, including local libraries.
Ballot boxes and papers can be found at the following locations:
| Ward |
Library |
| Ward 1 Bo’ness and Blackness |
Bo'ness Library |
| Ward 2 Grangemouth |
Grangemouth Library |
| Ward 3 Denny and Banknock |
Denny Library |
| Ward 4Carse, Kinnaird and Tryst |
Larbert Library |
| Ward 5 Larbert and Bonnybridge |
Bonnybridge Library |
| Ward 6 Falkirk North |
Falkirk Library |
| Ward 7 Falkirk South |
Falkirk Library |
| Ward 8 Lower Braes |
Meadowbank Library |
| Ward 9 Upper Braes |
Slamannan Library |
How the voting works
Online Voting is used for voting to select the preferred projects in each Ward. In addition, we offer a range of 'drop in' locations where paper ballots are available for each Ward, including local libraries.
Who can vote?
Voting is open to anyone of high school age or over, living in the Falkirk Council area.
Each resident has 3 votes for Small Grants and 3 votes for Place-Based Capital Grants.
Residents are asked to select the top 3 projects they would like to see funded within the Ward they live for Small Grants and the top 3 for Place-Based Capital Grants.
Note that under Place-Based Capital Grants residents can use one of their votes for the 'Falkirk Wide' category projects that benefit more than one Ward.
Other than the Falkirk Wide category, voters cannot vote for projects in Wards they do not live in.
Voters are under no obligation to use all of their votes. Voters can vote just once, just twice or all 3 times for Small and Place Based Capital Grants. How you vote is entirely up to you.
Falkirk-wide projects
Under Place-Based Capital Projects, ideas that benefit the wider Falkirk area (or more than one Ward) can apply to be included in the Falkirk Wide category.
Weighted voting
Where there are smaller concentrations of households in a Ward, votes will be weighted to ensure a small settlement's project ideas have as fair a chance as areas with more residents.
10% Eligibility rule
To secure funding, each project must attain at least 10% of the total eligible votes cast in that Ward.
The projects with the most votes will be awarded the funding requested until that Ward's budget is drawn down. Any unused funding in a Ward will be carried forward into the next programme round for that Ward or category.
Postcode voter verification
At the end of the voting process, internal checks are made to verify that duplicate emails and non-valid postcodes are removed.