Charnwood Borough Council receives around 10% of your total Council Tax bill - for a Band D property that’s about £131 for 2021/22 (around £2.50 a week).
The other 90% is collected on behalf of the County Council, police and fire services, and town and parish councils. We do also receive Government funding and generate some income.
As a Council, we:
- Have redistributed around £43 million of Government funding to over 3,000 businesses during the pandemic
- Set up Charnwood Community Action with partners to help people in need during the pandemic with food parcels, befriending and advice. CCA has delivered 20,000 food parcels
- Support community projects, groups and venues with advice and grants
- Look after 617 acres of open spaces including the Outwoods and Queen’s Park
- Organise council meetings and support 52 councillors
- Empty refuse and recycling bins over 4 million times a year
- Keep residents informed via our website, email alerts, social media and the media
- Operate Charnwood Museum which receives 40,000 visits a year
- Investigate over 1,000 fly-tipping incidents a year
- Investigate 1,400 noise and nuisance complaints a year
- Operate two business centres – Ark and Oak in Loughborough and Sileby
- Collect council tax and distribute various benefits
- Run Loughborough and Shepshed Markets and manage town centre facilities
- Operate a number of car parks across the borough
- Operate a 24/7 CCTV system which monitors Loughborough and other areas
- Provision of disabled facility grants, repair and partnership grants
- Organise Loughborough Fair and the Loughborough Christmas Lights Switch-on
- Run Charnwood Big Switch, a collective energy switching scheme designed to help residents change suppliers and save money on their energy bills
- Brought 219 empty homes back into use since April 2016
- Manage a cemetery and we are developing a new one for Loughborough
- Organise Public Health Funerals
- Aquire properties to meet housing need through right to buy receipts
- Deal with 2,500 applications for various planning and building control consents a year
- Empty dog bins, litter bins and clean hundreds of miles of streets
- Provide 1,500 residents with advice and assistance on their housing options
- Operate 3 leisure centres in Loughborough, Syston and Mountsorrel (over 1 million visits)
- Manage Loughborough Town Hall with nearly 100,000 visits a year
- Help 10,000 residents access physical activity programmes
- Look after public safety through licensing of taxis, pubs and clubs
- Support emergency responses such as flooding and open temporary shelters
- Organise elections involving hundreds of staff and tens of thousands of votes
- Caravan site licensing and monitoring the management of sites
A downloadable leaflet of the above information can be viewed below:
- Excellent Services, Excellent Value Leaflet (PDF Document, 0.58 Mb)
Last updated: Thu 11th March, 2021 @ 13:35