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Citizen magazine Winter 2024 - text version - Our budget for 2024/25
Published: 6 December 2024
Our budget for 2024/25
A city conversation about setting our budget for 2025-26
In the coming weeks we will be asking for your views on how we plan to set our budget for 2025-26.
Next year we will spend around £100 million across all the vital services for the city you rely on us to provide. The funding we get from central government has been cut significantly over time. We have also all been impacted by the cost of things like energy and materials going up sharply due to inflation.
The cost-of-living crisis has meant more people now need our help, creating extra demand on our services.
Council leader Mike Stonard said: “We have a strong track record of managing our finances well.
“As with all local councils throughout the country, it is becoming increasingly difficult to balance our books and provide excellent local services to all our communities who rely on them so much. We very much welcome your views on how we plan to do this.”
What we do next year must help deliver your overall priorities for the future of Norwich.
Last year, to help us shape our new priorities, we went out to the whole city to ask what was important to you. That led to more than 900 conversations with residents, businesses, and the volunteer and creative sector.
The conversations told us we need to be:
- an open and modern council
- a prosperous Norwich
- a fairer Norwich
- a climate responsive Norwich
- a future-proof Norwich
We’ve used these priorities in our ‘We Are Norwich’ community-led plan for 2024-29 to steer us through our decision making about what we deliver next year.
In the coming weeks we will be opening a conversation with the city about how we plan to invest in your local services and meet our financial targets.
We will be getting in touch via, texts, emails and social media or you can visit www. norwich.gov.uk/consultations where you will find out how to join in on our budget setting conversation when we have everything in place to gather your feedback.
