Councillors' Ward Budgets

Each Councillor has access to a ward budget of £3k that can be allocated to voluntary and not for profit groups to support activities and initiatives that will improve their local area.

Councillors are well placed to understand local issues and priorities and this budget enables them to help encourage positive change through community action. The Councillors Ward Budget is quite flexible and can be used as seed funding to encourage the establishment of new groups to deliver local initiatives or to sustain or expand more established groups and organisations in benefitting the wider community.

The Councillors ward budgets were originally introduced during April 2020 when the country was in lockdown and at that time much of the funding was used to support food banks, arts and craft activities that could be carried out at home and to support groups undertaking activities online. Since that time funding has been used to support the sustainability of important local groups including the purchase of equipment, helping to fund important community events and setting up local groups to provide activities for young people or the elderly.

Details of how the funding has been allocated in past schemes from 2020 to 2023 is included in the 'downloads and resources' section on this page. A monthly update on expenditure on the current scheme 23/24 is also provided under 'downloads and resources'.

Anyone wishing to access the fund should contact their local ward Councillor directly to discuss their project and seek their support. If the project is supported you will need to complete an application form that will be provided by the Councillor and this will be assessed to ensure it complies with the scheme before funding is released.

The link below provides a list of Doncaster Councillors:

Doncaster Councillors