Your councillors - Watkins, Steven - Biggleswade West

Executive Member for Assets, Business and Housing

Councillor Watkins sits on the following committees:

• Appointments Panel
• Biggleswade Joint Committee
• Executive (Executive Member for Assets, Business and Housing)
• General Purposes (Chair)

Councillor Watkins - register of interests

Each Central Bedfordshire Councillor has access to £2,000 from which they can allocate grants to local projects that demonstrate a community benefit. Councillors can also work together across their ward to combine their grants, if that’s what is most needed. Find out more about the Ward Councillor grant scheme.

Councillor Watkin's grant allocation 2024/2025

Organisation: Biggleswade Rugby Club 
Purpose of grant: Contribution towards kit for the mini section 
Amount: £500

Councillor Watkin's grant allocation 2023/2024

Organisation: The Bigg Theatre
Purpose of grant: Contribution towards flooring refurbishment
Amount: £1,000

Organisation: Biggleswade Community Gardens
Purpose of grant: Contribution towards gardening equipment 
Amount: £166.67

Councillor Watkins's grant allocation 2022/2023 Cost of Living Extension

Organisation: Preen
Purpose of grant: Contribution towards foodbank supplies
Amount: £1000

Councillor Watkins's grant allocation 2022/2023

Organisation: Keech Hospice
Purpose of grant: Contribution towards Hydrotherapy Pool equipment 
Amount: £2000

Councillor Watkins's grant allocation 2021/2022

Organisation: Biggleswade Cricket Club 
Purpose of grant: Contribution towards electric scorebox and storage facility
Amount: £1,600

Organisation: Guiding East Beds Division 
Purpose of grant: Contribution towardsReturn to Face to Face Guiding in Biggleswade North Ward
Amount: £400

Councillor Watkins's grant allocation 2020/2021

Organisation: Biggleswade Baptist Church
Purpose of grant: Contribution towards AV computer facilities
Amount: £599

Organisation: Biggleswade Cricket Club
Purpose of grant: Contribution towards outdoor cricket nets training facility 
Amount: £1,401

Councillor Watkins's grant allocation 2019/2020

Organisation: Biggleswade Scout Group
Purpose of grant: Contribution towards the replacement of windows
Amount: £1,789

Organisation: Arrows Elite Gymnastics
Purpose of grant: Towards the purchase of new uniforms
Amount: £211

Councillor Watkins’s COVID-19 allocation

Organisation: Biggleswade Baptist Church
Purpose of grant: Contribution towards ‘fogger’ for sanitising building
Amount: £550

Organisation: Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity
Purpose of grant: Contribution towards summer/winter 2020/21 campaign
Amount: £450