Annual report 2021/2022 - Delivering for Colchester

Colchester Borough Council provides a wide range of services that residents depend and rely on. Between April 2021 and March 2022, we will have spent around £88.9m delivering these services, and around £2.4m supporting corporate items including interest charges.

The vast majority of this funding comes from income and grants, with the extra needed to run the council’s services funded through the council’s share of Business Rates, New Homes Bonuses and Council Tax.

How we get our funding

• (£66.3m) Housing Benefit Subsidy, Fees & Charges and Service Grants
• (£12.6m) Council Tax
• (£6.1m) Business Rates
• (£2.4m) New Homes Bonus
• (£3.9m) Government Grant / Reserves

How your council tax is shared across authorities

• (11%) Colchester Borough Council
• (74%) Essex County Council
• (4%) Fire
• (11%) Police

In some areas of Colchester, a small amount of the council tax collected is for the local parish council. Information on what Essex County Council use their share of the council tax for can be found on their website.

How we share the funding across our services

• (£13.2m) Environment including Waste and Recycling Collections, Parks and Open Spaces, Street Cleaning
• (£14.4m) Place and Client including Planning, Housing and Sport and Leisure
• (£46.7m) Customer including Customer Contact, Revenue Collection and Benefits
• (£6.3m) Community including Environmental Health, Community Safety, Museums and Cultural Services
• (£8.3m) Corporate Services including Corporate Management, Finance, IT, Communications, HR and Governance