Many of you will have responded directly, either personally or on behalf of your organisation, to Nottingham City Council's budget proposals for 2024/2025. In reducing support to our communities, especially to some of Nottingham's most vulnerable citizens, the proposals will have a dramatic impact on VCSE sector service provision, and on the health and wellbeing of all Nottingham people.
While the consultation and survey has closed for responses, there is more to do. We must continue to stand up for Nottingham and do everything we can to save our sector.
We ask you to join us in signing our open letter to Nottingham City Council colleagues, urging them to reconsider the proposal to cut 100% of the grants currently provided to the voluntary sector in Nottingham. Our sector is relied upon more than ever to provide support to some of our most vulnerable citizens. How can the city council reconcile a greater reliance on the sector’s support against the proposal to remove grant funding?
Now is not the time to disinvest in a sector which the city council and its citizens have come to rely on. We need a different conversation about the sector’s role in reshaping services so that all of Nottingham’s people have a better outcome.
Let's raise our voices. Add your signature to our letter now. Please sign before midnight on Thursday 8 February 2024. The city council Executive Board meets the following week to make its decisions.
