Community Choices is a participatory budgeting programme which means that the public have a vote on the project that they would like to be funded in their community.

Each Ward has a share of public funds to invest in community projects.

Eligible projects go onto the public vote - to let the community choose their favourites.

In addition, paper ballots are available for each Ward in all local libraries.

Voting is open to anyone aged 16 years or above, living in the Falkirk Council area.

Residents are asked to select the top 3 projects they would like to see funded within the Ward they live.

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. How you vote is entirely up to you.

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.

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.

At the end of the voting process, internal checks are made to verify that duplicate emails and non-valid postcodes are removed.