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Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Council's appeal to save Christmas celebrations
For a second year, a cash-strapped council is calling on businesses to help save Christmas celebrations in a city. Peterborough City Council (PCC) issued an appeal to raise £58,000 for this year's festivities, which included a Christmas tree and decorations in Cathedral Square. The local authority, which faced a predicted budget gap of more than £20m in 2025-26, said the sponsorship appeal was one "of a number of decisions to support the council's budget strategy". It came after the 2024 Christmas celebrations were nearly called off after a £22,000 shortage of funds, before city councillors, organisations and individuals chipped in to save the day. The authority's councillors also contributed cash from the Community Leadership Fund – a pot of money they could use each year on projects that benefited residents in their ward. Earlier this year, PCC announced several budget-cutting measures, including a rise in council tax by 4.99%, reducing Peterborough Museum's opening times and changes to the Central Park toilets' cleaning schedule in a bid to make £23m of savings. Clair George, head of safer communities at PCC said: " As part of a number of decisions to support the council's budget strategy, we are again offering sponsorship packages and opportunities for Christmas 2025. "It costs approximately £58,000 for the Christmas Tree, lights and switch-on event. "We were pleased with the response last year, and depending on the number of enquiries we receive, we will stop the appeal as soon as we've been able to confirm all costs will be covered." Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Council approves new budget with cuts and tax rise City's Christmas could be 'called off' - council Peterborough City Council
BBC News
06-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Council's appeal to save Peterborough Christmas celebrations
For a second year, a cash-strapped council is calling on businesses to help save Christmas celebrations in a City Council (PCC) issued an appeal to raise £58,000 for this year's festivities, which included a Christmas tree and decorations in Cathedral local authority, which faced a predicted budget gap of more than £20m in 2025-26, said the sponsorship appeal was one "of a number of decisions to support the council's budget strategy".It came after the 2024 Christmas celebrations were nearly called off after a £22,000 shortage of funds, before city councillors, organisations and individuals chipped in to save the day. The authority's councillors also contributed cash from the Community Leadership Fund – a pot of money they could use each year on projects that benefited residents in their this year, PCC announced several budget-cutting measures, including a rise in council tax by 4.99%, reducing Peterborough Museum's opening times and changes to the Central Park toilets' cleaning schedule in a bid to make £23m of George, head of safer communities at PCC said: " As part of a number of decisions to support the council's budget strategy, we are again offering sponsorship packages and opportunities for Christmas 2025."It costs approximately £58,000 for the Christmas Tree, lights and switch-on event."We were pleased with the response last year, and depending on the number of enquiries we receive, we will stop the appeal as soon as we've been able to confirm all costs will be covered." Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
27-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Peterborough council asks for unspent funds to be returned
A cash-strapped city council has asked councillors to return unused community funds to support its financial of the 60 Peterborough city councillors receive £3,000 yearly as part of a Community Leadership Fund (CLF) to support resident projects in their City Council released a table of each councillor's CLF spending figures for 2024/25, with some spending all of their allocation and others spending nothing at the local authority's budget earlier this year for 2025/26, councillors' CLF allocation will be reduced from £3,000 to £1,000 in a bid to save £120,000 a year. In October, councillors were given the option to forgo any unspent CLF funding but were free to do so if they councillor for West ward, Wayne Fitzgerald, leader of the Conservative group, was among those who spent none of their Fitzgerald said: "We had earmarked the money for several projects in our case, however, we had to put them off because it was requested where councillors hadn't committed to give the money back to the central pot."Labour councillor for Bretton, Richard Strangward, said he was going to spend the funds on a larger project planned which didn't come Party leader Nicola Day, of the Orton Waterville ward, spent £5,000 of her CLF allocation, including around £2,000 carried over from last year to fund defibrillators, roof repairs at a local football club - and to set up a mental health support First councillors John and Judy Fox, and Sarah Hillier, of Werrington ward, spent all of the Fox said: "I think if you are given that money to spend on the community then that is what you should do."A spokesperson for the city council said: "All unspent money has been rolled forward to the next financial year (2025/26)." Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
