Excellent services, excellent value

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)

View the Council Tax banding for the year of 2021/22.