Response 4083810

Response to request for information

Reference

4083810

Response date

24 August 2026

Request

1. Does the council operate funding schemes whereby individual councillors are provided with funding that they can distribute to charities and other organisations at their discretion? These schemes have different names in different areas, such as “member budgets”, “ward budgets”, “locality budgets” etc. Here is an example of one such scheme - https://www.devon.gov.uk/democracy/councillors-info/locality-budgets/ 
   • If the council is uncertain of whether a particular funding scheme fits this criteria, please check with me. 
     If the answer to question 1 is “no”, the council need not respond to the rest of this FOI request.
     If the answer to question 1 is “yes”, please proceed with the remainder of this request.
2. For each year since 2023/24 (including 2026/27 year to date), please list each councillor, their political party/grouping that year, their ward, their annual budget under the scheme(s), and the list of entities they chose to distribute funding to under the scheme(s) covered by question 1. For each recipient entity, please state:
   
   1. The name of the recipient entity (e.g. the name of the charity)
   2. The amount of funding
   3. What the funding was for (if recorded)

Response

Rushcliffe Borough Council runs a scheme known as the Community Support Scheme. Full details are available on the Council’s website, a link is provided for you convenience.

Community Support Scheme Grant - Rushcliffe Borough Council

The information requested is available on the Council’s website for years 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 detailed in summary of grants approved, on the same webpage as above. This information is published annually and the 2026/27 information will not be available until 2027.