COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Councillors provide funding to those in need

This included:

• Band equipment for use during training and community parades
• Church-led Warm Spaces including refreshments and activities
• Provision of food and toiletries for a food bank
• A lunch club for frail and vulnerable residents
• Pre-hospital air ambulance emergency care
• Public menorah lighting
• Singing sessions for people with dementia
• Musical therapy
• Inclusive football
• Highway shrub planting
• Tree planting

Each of the 78 County Councillors are provided with a Locality Budget of £10,000 to spend on projects that support Hertfordshire.

The funding enables councillors to support a wide range of projects that centre around the county council’s four key corporate areas of:

• Improving the health and well-being of our people
• Protecting and improving our environment
• Supporting the sustainable and responsible growth of our county
• Providing excellent services that are accessible to all

In line with a vision to help make a “cleaner, greener and healthier Hertfordshire”, grants made by county councillors during November reached a value of £16,734.51.