Tendring Council uses a butcher’s axe to cut its budget 

 

A huge number of Tendring residents are now being savagely squeezed between the disproportionate cuts unfairly imposed on the District by the Conservative-led Government (see “Pickled” article elsewhere) and the inadequacies of their Conservative-led Council in anticipating and dealing with them. 

 

Despite having two years notice, they wasted time, opportunity and tax-payers money and, by their own admission, are still only 15% into the process. 

 

To see if you or members of your family are affected, here is a more detailed list of those excessive cuts and fee increases. 

 

 

New Graves - interment 15% - 20% 

Adult Body Parts 40% 

Interment of Ashes 40% to 76% 

 

 

Annual Fees increase 4% - 8% 

Change of Ownership Fee 380% (from £75 to £360) 

 

 

Athletics 44% 

Cricket 44% 

Softball 44% 

Football 44% 

Mini-Football 44% 

Rugby 44% 

 

 

Badminton 24% 

Tennis 24% 

Family Swim 8% 

Gym (means-tested) 18% 

 

 

Unmade road maintenance 

CCTV maintenance 

Cultural activities 

Sports Promotion 

Youth Sports Development 

 

 

Land Drainage 

Staffing of Joint Use Sports Facilities (Manningtree, Harwich and Brightlingsea) 

Youth Theatre 

Princes Theatre 

New Playground Maintenance 

Summer Seafront Activities 

Clacton Air Show 

 

 

 

The proposed cuts and excessive fee increases will hit very many of our residents hard, in particular targeting the more vulnerable sections of our community. In particular, up to £400,000 of simple and effective annual support to the Voluntary Sector has been lost – support that has helped hundreds of organisations and thousands of our more vulnerable residents. 

 

Over the years, Community Voluntary Services Tendring (CVST), with the aid of Tendring District Council grants, has supported or worked alongside the organisations listed below. 

 

Many will face great difficulties in face of the cuts being imposed by the current administration. Once again, follow this link to see if you or family will be affected by those cuts in the name of the ‘Big Society’. 

 

LINK to CVS Associate List - in red below 

 

 

For more detail on the work of CVS Tendring, follow the link below. 

 

 

 

To add insult to injury, TDC’s Conservative Administration is now dressing up deep annual cuts to the Voluntary Sector as a large, one-off give-away and has now apparently been praised by Eric Pickles, the Government Minister, for doing it. 

 

The centre piece of the Cabinet’s controversial budget announces a £500,000 ‘Big Society’ Fund. However, a closer look shows that it has major strings attached to it. In essence, you have to help the Council cut its budget. Most people would think that officers and leading councillors like Council Leader Neil Stock and Deputy Leader Peter Halliday are already well paid enough to do that. 

 

Nearly four years ago (when in opposition), they led complaints that TDC’s Small Schemes Fund (where councillors could obtain grants for their local communities) was not fair and not transparent. 

 

In response, the Tendring First-led Administration restructured and simplified the fund, adding money to the total so that each councillor had £2,000 a year to spend in his or her ward each year. To see the impact of this very simple and popular scheme, and to see who has spent what on which of very many voluntary organisations, follow this link to TDC’s website. Please note that this scheme will now cease. 

 

 

4 Youth’ Brightlingsea 

• Age Concern - Clacton 

• Age Concern - Essex 

• Age Concern - Harwich & District 

• Alternatives Pregnancy Crisis Centre 

• Alzheimers Society - Tendring 

• Bereaved, Divorced & Single Person’s 

Support Group 

• British Red Cross - Clacton Unit 

• CARA 

• Child & Adolescent Mental Health 

• Citizens Advice Bureau Tendring 

• Clacton Bead Queens 

• Clacton Community Projects 

• Clacton Deafblind Club 

• Clacton District Girl Guiding 

• Clacton Family Trust 

• Coastal Community Centre 

• Colchester Gay Switchboard 

• Co-operative Funeral Services 

Bereavement Support Group 

• Cruse Bereavement Care Colchester 

& District Branch 

• Diabetes UK (Clacton & District 

Voluntary group) 

• Dumont Luncheon Club 

• East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices 

(E.A.C.H.) 

• Epilepsy Action Tendring 

• Essex Blind Charity 

• Essex Carers Support 

• Essex Mediation 

• Extra-Support for Families 

• Family Support - Brightlingsea 

• Family Support - Clacton 

• Friends of the Elderly 

• Girlguiding UK Essex North East 

• Golden Hearts Association 

• Grassroots 

• Great Bentley Good Neighbours 

• Greenpath Ventures 

• Harwich & District Comm Association 

• Harwich & District Fellowship for the Sick 

• Harwich and District Girl Guides 

• Harwich Peninsula U3A 

• Headway Essex 

• Health in Mind (Rethink) 

• Health Trainers NHS North East Essex 

• Hearing Dogs for Deaf People 

• Hedgehog Haven Rescue Centre 

• Hindu Culture Heritage Centre 

• Holland Art Society 

• Holland on Sea Community Association 

• Home-Start Harwich 

• Inclusion Ventures 

• Inner Wheel Club of Clacton-on-Sea 

• Interact Chelmsford Ltd 

• Jaywick 60Plus 

• Jaywick Community Lunch Club 

• Jaywick Community Resource Centre 

• Kingsway Hall Arts & Theatre 

Community Trust 

• Leisure Hour Club 

• Leonard Cheshire Disability 

• Lions Club of Clacton on Sea 

• Little Clacton Parish Fields 

• Look Essex 

• M.S. Society Clacton & District 

• Mad About Theatre Company 

• Mayday Self-Help Group 

• Millicents Day Centre 

• Multiple Sclerosis Society Clacton & 

District Branch 

• North Essex Stoma Support Group 

• Open Road 

• Opportunities Through Technology 

• Parkinsons UK Clacton & District Branch 

• Pier Ward Forum 

• Point Clear & St Osyth Disabled 

Persons Club 

• Point Clear Community Association 

• Royal Artillery Association 

• S.S.A.F.A - Forces Help - Tendring Division 

• Shaw Trust 

• Signpost Tendring 

• SLDARA 

• St Michael’s Pre School 

• Surestart Childrens Centres (SSCCT) 

• T.S.Rebel Sea Cadet School 

• Teen Talk ( Harwich) 

• Tendring & Colchester Minority 

Ethnic Partnership 

• Tendring Access Group 

• Tendring Alliance of Residents Groups 

• Tendring Bridge Trust 

• Tendring Community Transport 

• Tendring Crossroads 

• Tendring District Talking Newspaper Assoc 

• Tendring Home Improvement Agency 

• Tendring Mental Health Support 

• Tendring Pensioners’ Action Group 

• Tendring Reuse & Employment Enterprise 

• Tendring Specialist Stroke Services 

(formely CDSA) 

• Tendring U3A 

• Tendring V.I.P.’s 

• The Ark Centre 

• The Ernest Luff Homes 

(Christian Charity Pilgrim Homes) 

• The Lynch Mob 

• The Relatives & Residents Association 

• The Tendring Furniture Scheme 

• The Topaz Trust Limited 

• Thyroid UK 

• TMHS - Independent Advocacy Services 

• Victim Support 

• Volunteer Centre Tendring 

• Walton & District Sea Cadet Corps 

• Walton Community Care 

- Hospital Car Services 

• Weeley Community Care Association 

• Whatever Youth Club 

• Whisperers 

• Womens’ Institute - Clacton on Sea 

• Youth Theatre Supporter