A SENIOR Thurrock Conservative councillor has called on Thurrock Council to look at the amount of taxpayer’s money spent on organisations such as Trust and ngage before slashing the budget of the Citizen’s Advice Bureau.
Blackshots councillor Ben Maney was responding to a motion on the virtues of Workfare. Cllr Maney took the opportunity to question the ruling Labour group’s proposal to remove a major part of its funding to the Citizens Advice Bureau.
After cllr Maney had completed his speech, combative Tilbury councillor Lynn Worrall spoke and reminded cllr Maney that Thurrock was left with £40 million cuts to make.
Cllr Maney then suggested that they: “Start with Trust and Ngage”.
Trust is the anti-racism organisation based in the Thameside Theatre. Ngage is a community enabling organisation based at The Beehive.
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I agree.. if funding is going to be cut it should be for all voluntary sectors not just a selected few like CAB and Trans-Vol… what about Trust, Ngage, CVS, etc etc.??……Non-discrimination Thurrock Council?…….I think not !?
Well done Cllr Maney. Things like Trust and Ngage should be the first to lose funding whilst Trans-vol and the CAB should be supported.
Maybe if the CAB manager hadn’t spent the council grant on his company Jaguar I would have a little more sympathy…
It would appear that Cllr Maney has no understanding of the size of cuts that Thurrock Council is to get over the next three years. All of the voluntary sector will see cuts to their council funding as well as every other department in the council.
Instead of just trying to protect one organisations cuts perhaps Cllr Maney might like to propose how the council can sustain this grant without hitting day to day services and the vulnerable in our communities.