The article presents the results of a survey conducted on a group of generation 55+ Poles living in the city of Rzeszow concerning their knowledge of issues related to participatory budgets and the state of their activity in this area. At the beginning an assessment of the knowledge of the idea of participatory budget was presented. In the following, the residents’ participation in the participatory budget was assessed and the factors influencing this activity were analyzed. Conducted examinations allowed to state that the majority of respondents knows as well as positively is assessing the idea of participatory budget. Unfortunately the level of the knowledge of respondents about principles of his functioning is low. To it sources from which they obtained information about participatory budget have a direct effect. The majority of respondents is keeping the passive posture towards works on participatory budget. They are confining themselves only for giving back the vote for notified projects.