Wokingham Borough Council will set its budget for 2025/26 in February next year, and is currently looking at how it can set a balanced budget, protect services, and invest in residents’ futures with input from residents in the form of questions proposed to the Council and a Survey.

Overview and Scrutiny Committees

With this in mind, the Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committees (which are public meetings of elected councillors that residents are welcome to attend and ask questions of) will hold sessions to look in detail at the ideas we have so far and make recommendations on them.

As well as a chance at these sessions to look at the detailed proposals, the Council is seeking views on a few key questions that will help it plan for a secure financial future.

The Overview and Scrutiny meetings, at which detailed budget proposals will be discussed, are:

• Community and Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee: Tuesday October 29, 7pm
• Community and Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee: Tuesday November 12, 7pm
• Community and Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee: Tuesday December 17, 7pm
• Community and Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee: January 20, 2025, 7pm

Questions can be submitted in advance of these meetings via the Council’s website.

Residents Survey

In addition to the Overview and Scrutiny process, the Council is seeking views on how it can safeguard its financial future by asking residents to complete a Survey, giving their input on these issues, by 2nd December.

Take Survey