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Coventry City Council Budget Consultation 2026/27
We are running our annual budget consultation which starts today, and your feedback can really help shape the way we plan our finances and how we target services for 2026-2027.
In this year’s annual budget consultation there are no cuts proposed to local services, in fact we have the potential for additional investment.
So that’s why, we would love to know your views on how we can deliver the priorities that the public have told us about.
For the first time in about 15 years, the Council anticipates being able to meet its legal duty of setting a balanced budget for 2026/27 without requiring significant service reductions, thanks to expected improvements from the Government's Fair Funding reform.
The Pre-Budget Report outlines potential themes for investment based on public engagement and council performance data. These include:
- Keeping people safe – tackling crime, improving cleanliness and city centre improvements
- Anti-social behaviour – including fly tipping
- Local environments – particularly in deprived neighbourhoods
- Protecting vulnerable people – tackling child poverty
- Good jobs, investment and prosperity – addressing youth unemployment and education achievement
- Helping people to manage – support with bills and energy costs
- Roads and pavements – improving condition and safety
Please take a few minutes to fill in our survey and register for an engagement session https://letstalk.coventry.gov.uk/budget-26
We really value your opinion.
The deadline for responses is Wednesday 28 January 2026.
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Budget Consultation 2024/25
We want to give everyone the opportunity to tell us what you think about our spending proposals for 2024/25
Reductions of more than £100m in our funding coupled with unprecedented rises in inflationary pressures and demand for services – 79% of our budget is now spent on social care and homelessness, up from 40% in 2010, this means we know we cannot do everything we would like to. However, we can make sure that we give everyone the opportunity to have a say in how we build our budget for the next financial year of 2024/25.
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Tell us about your area
We would like to gain local knowledge about what’s happening within our communities, we want to understand the assets and the needs in local areas.
The information you share with us will be used to help inform the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), and will provide a snapshot of what it is like to live in an area and also look at the current and future health and care needs of local communities.
We would like to know:
What things do you like about where you live?
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Coventry All Saints - Free Groups and Activities
Coventry Book Swap Facebook Group
Coventry Book Swap Facebook group lets you exchange a book you've finished with something new to read.
Check out the Coventry Book Swap Facebook Group. It's a place for people of Coventry and the surrounding areas to swap their books. Just advertise your books and feel free to ask for any books that you'd like to read!
Don't forget to invite your friends. Happy Reading!
Walks in Coventry City Centre
Walking is simple, free and one of the easiest ways to get more active, it's great... Continue reading
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Warwick Arts Centre
Creative Workshops For Families
3 Oct-6 Dec 2023
Warwick Arts Centre, Free drop in.
Get ready for another season of creative fun at the Warwick Arts Centre this autumn! Drop in to our fun and FREE Family Sundays and Workshop Wednesdays and explore movement, craft, textiles and much more.
No need to book and no need to pay, just turn up and have fun! The fun doesn’t stop here.
We also have a diverse range of activities from Mini Creatives for the little ones to the Out of Whack dance group for visitors aged 50+.
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Tile Hill Community Partnership - West Midlands Mayor's Community Picnic
10th September 2023 2pm - 4pm Limbrick Wood Church Green
The Community Resilience have been supporting Tile Hill Community Partnership to get the resources to run a free community event which takes place on 10th September.
All the voluntary sector organisations have been working together, coordinating activities and organising free food to what should be an amazing free community event for local people.
If you live in the Tile Hill area, come along, everyone is welcome!
The Wellbeing for Life Festival
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The Coventry Holidays and Food (HAF) Programme
The Holiday Activities and Food programme is back this summer, featuring over 150 activities for children and young people between July and September.
Places are completely free to children who receive free school meals.
To book sessions, parents/carers will need the child’s HAF code which is highlighted in the letter sent to their home.Support is available for bookings through the Customer Service contact centre, family hubs, schools, and libraries located around the city centre.
For more information, head to https://www.coventry.gov.uk/holiday-activities-foodCould you Foster With Coventry?
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Summer Outdoor Activity Camp '23 - Coombe Abbey Park
Five weeks of outdoor activity camps will be held in Coombe Abbey Park this summer by Coventry Outdoors Education Service, part of Coventry City Council.
The camps are open to anyone between the ages of 11 and 15. Each participant is guaranteed to have an unforgettable adventure, which will include learning survival techniques, to taking part in all sorts of outdoor activities and challenges, whilst making new friends and having lots of fun!
Activities include:- Combat Archery
- Laser Tag
- Bushcraft
- Survival Skills
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Coventry Community Spaces - Administrative Co-ordinator Role Vacancy
A vacancy has arisen for a Administrative Co-ordinator at Coventry Community Spaces CIC.
Coventry Community Spaces CIC was established in December 2021, the organisation is made up of 9 community centres working and volunteering in communities across Coventry.
Coventry Community Spaces CIC support Coventry communities by running groups and services that benefit the wellbeing of local people. The organisation is looking for someone to co-ordinate administrative functions across the 9 community centre sites.
Deadline for Applications: 16th June 2023
12 Hours per week, £13 per hour plus mileage
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Healthwatch Coventry Photography Competition
Coventry Views - take a photo and share it with Healthwatch Coventry for a chance to win a prize
To mark its 10th anniversary Healthwatch Coventry is asking people to go out in Coventry to take and share pictures:
- Of Coventry Views – pictures of places in Coventry you like, visit regularly or find on a local walk – interesting, more unusual scenes of Coventry
- Featuring the number 10 - pictures in Coventry showing an existing number 10 or one you have created for the photo.
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Coventry City Council Climate Change strategy 2023-2030
We want to hear from people who live, work or study in Coventry, we need your views on the city’s draft climate change strategy
The draft strategy sets out the foundations for creating a sustainable zero carbon city.
The strategy supports the delivery of the city’s One Coventry Plan, which includes tackling the causes and consequences of climate change as one of its three key priorities.
Read the draft climate change strategy, give us your views by filling in our survey and find out more about opportunities to get involved in an... Continue reading