East Suffolk councillors have provided over £4,800 to support community organisations in Beccles.
Councillors Sheryl Rumble, Sarah Plummer and Caroline Topping, Leader of East Suffolk Council, have allocated £4,862 to five local groups through their Enabling Communities Budget.
Cllr Sheryl Rumble, East Suffolk councillor for Beccles and Worlingham said: “We are pleased to have been able to provide this funding to all these organisations, who are supporting Beccles residents in a variety of ways. There is a huge amount of hard work which goes on ‘behind the scenes’ every day in our communities and we are proud to be able to support some of this work which makes such a difference to local people.”
East Suffolk Council’s Enabling Communities Budgets support activities delivered by community, voluntary and social enterprise organisations.
Distributed equally amongst each of the Council’s 55 members, each ward councillor has a £7,500 Enabling Community Budget to spend on community projects or to develop new projects which tackle community needs in their area.
Previous projects which have benefitted from Enabling Community Budget funding include play areas, village hall refurbishments and equipment, community events, projects supporting people with disabilities and the purchase of defibrillators.