How funding will be allocated
Councillors can decide locally how to allocate their ward budgets. They can choose to do this in different ways:
- Commissioning services that provide Value for Money. This could include:
- In-house council provision e.g. Streetscene, Highways, Green Spaces etc.
- Vol-com sector or partner provision e.g. from a local group / organisation, charity, Parish Council, etc
- Community Chest / open bidding process
- A form of participatory budgeting e.g. Dragons Den, Soup Kitchen etc. where people pitch their proposals
- Purchasing equipment / goods from the private sector for the benefit of the local community
- Or by a combination of any of these
Ward budgets cannot be used for any proposal which:
- Borough-wide projects that require contributions from multiple wards
- Involves funding an individual
- Involves funding retrospective activity
- Involves funding activity that is political / religious in nature or involves campaigning against the Council / its priorities or activity that could be construed as lobbying
- Would then have an expectation of, or a legal / contractual commitment to, ongoing (Revenue / Capital) funding
- Would be unlawful for the Council to support
