Articles by Alice Kinghorn-Gray

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Alice Kinghorn-Gray, ERS Scotland Campaigns Organiser

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Denmark’s three-day democracy festival that attracts over 65,000 visitors

I had the opportunity to visit Denmark’s democracy festival, Folkemødet, (translated as the People’s Meeting), this June. Representatives from Perth and Kinross council, Argyll and Bute council and I, swapped the Scottish summer rain for the...

Posted 30 Jul 2026

healthy democracies depend on strong communities

ERS Scotland makes the case for local democracy innovation at Scottish Greens’ Conference

When citizens come together to make plans about the place they know best, Scotland’s towns, cities and villages can flourish. But what democratic systems would allow this to happen? And is Dunfermline the right place...

Posted 01 Nov 2023

Scotland’s ground-breaking Citizens’ Assembly has wrapped up. What’s next?

Scotland’s first Citizens’ Assembly, a deliberative body made up of 100 citizens reflecting the country’s demographics, concluded in January and published its visions for the future of Scotland. Citizens’ Assemblies which aim to create ‘mini-publics’...

Posted 09 Feb 2021

The Citizen’s Assembly of Scotland can help shape our post-Covid future

Scotland’s first Citizens’ Assembly met last week for the first time since March. Like many social events and workplaces, the deliberative body, made up of 100 citizens reflecting Scotland’s demographics, has moved online after being...

Posted 23 Sep 2020

Covid-19 has moved the assembly to the forefront of Scottish government thinking

What happens at the Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland?

On Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October, The Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland kicked off at the Grosvenor Hotel in Edinburgh, with one hundred people from across the country meeting for the first time. The Assembly...

Posted 25 Nov 2019