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Councillors have Locality Budgets which enable them to give financial support to groups and organisations for projects in their particular ward. Find out who to contact in your Ward.
The following awards were made in the financial year 2016-2017:
Stroke Working Age Group (Suffolk) - Guest speakers, therapists and workshops at monthly meetings - £400
Friends of Sebert Wood School - Year 6 leaving event - £625
Bury St Edmunds Dementia Action Alliance Group - Conference for family carers of people living with Dementia living in Bury St Edmunds - £1,400
Abbeycroft Leisure - Walking football - £500
Mildenhall Road Estate Games Group - Set up a new group to provide men and women with companionship through games - £150
Abbeycroft Leisure - Women On Wheels 2017 fundraising event - hire of stereo equipment, portable toilets, pedestrian barriers and generator, rider certificates and maps, first aid provision - £300
Bury St Edmunds Cricket Club - Purchase dishwasher for kitchen of the Community Pavilion - £420
Victory Sports Ground Community Interest Company - Replace fencing at the Nowton end of the Victory Sports Ground - £500
Howard Estate Association of Residents & Tenants - Removal of fencing and provision of new litter bin at the Tollgate Recreation ground - £868
Mildenhall Road Estate Over 60's - Purchase urns and soup spoons - £164
Bury in Bloom - Provide a suitable lighting scheme to highlight and enhance the Flight of Peace Sculpture on Mount Road - £4,260
Multicultural Women's Group Bury St Edmunds Ltd (MWGBSE) - To continue and expand the work of the group - £2,750
Southgate Community Partnership - Purchase a Numatic rotary floor cleaning machine - £618
Howard Estate Association of Residents & Tenants - Installation of a breedon footpath between Oakes road and play area and wooded open space - £2,995
Horringer Court Residents' Association - Towards the refurbishment of the Bedell Close play area - £5,000
Churchgate Area Association - Purchase two cast iron bins, one at or near Churchgate Street's junction with Guildhall Street and the other at or near its junction with Whiting Street - £1,860
Howard Estate Association of Residents & Tenants - Luke Southgate Memorial plaque - £100
Hardwick Primary School - Purchase and erect a storage shed for the Reception children's toys and resources - £900
Parkrun - Purchase a lockable storage unit at Moreton Hall Health Club to house equipment for Bury St Edmunds Junior Parkrun - £435
Southgate Church Liquid Youth Group - A weekend residential activity trip for 10 teenagers who attend Liquid Youth Group, accompanied by 3 leaders - £500
Sebert Wood School Football Club Y1/R - New equipment for the Year 1 and Reception year football group - £240
Bury In Bloom - Remove graffiti from the West Suffolk College wall alongside the footpath to Beeton's Way - £1.995
West Suffolk College - Towards the St John's Street Xmas Fayre project which aims to encourage the local community to visit St John's Street during the Christmas Fayre - £1,250
Howards Football Club - New sports wear and equipment including training sportswears, club kit shorts and socks, football nets and bags - £700
Suffolk County Council - Groundworks for bus shelter for Tollgate Lane - £1,500
Friends of Guildhall Feoffment CP school - Two bouncy castles, barriers, delivery and collection for Summer BBQ - £310
New Moreton Hall Pre-school - Refurbishment of garden and purchase new play equipment - £1,000
Abbeycroft Leisure - Women On Wheels - Nowton Park rider numbers, certificates, maps and marketing - £1,045
Southgate Area Association - Support for forthcoming AGM and neighbourhood gathering, contribution to running costs of association - £200
Bury In Bloom - To refresh the planting of the Luke Southgate community Memorial Garden, St Olaves Precinct - £500
My WiSH Special Events - Towards the printing of the maps and stakes for the signage, in respect of 29th May 2016 family cycle route - £200
Orbit 11 Cullum Road Very Sheltered Scheme - Installation of the water feature in the garden in which the party for the Queen's 90th Birthday Celebrations took place - £920
Milkmaid Folk Arts Centre CIC - Concrete base for siting a shipping container for storage purposes - £500
Theatre Royal - To enable 5-9 year old pupils of Tollgate Primary school to participate in the Theatre Royal 'Children's Festival for 2016' arts project - £600
West Suffolk College - To deliver 20 shows to 9 Bury St Edmunds schools in partnership with the Theatre Royal - £1,250