Your councillors - Watkins, Steven - Biggleswade West

Name

Councillor Steven Watkins

Councillor Steven Watkins
Position

Executive Member for Business, Housing and Public Assets

Political party / group

Independent

Ward

Biggleswade West

Other councillors representing this ward

Councillor Paul How and Councillor Hayley Whitaker

Committees: click links for info on each committee

Councillor Watkins sits on the following committees:

Register of interests
Community grants

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 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

Street

9 Kidman Court

Town or village

Biggleswade

Postcode

SG18 0FH

Telephone number

0300 300 8557

Email address
steven.watkins@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk