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Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Ward Councillor Grant Scheme returns from 30 April to back local projects
We are relaunching our Ward Councillor Grant Scheme on 30 April 2025, giving communities another chance to secure funding for local projects that make a real difference.
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Friday, 9 August 2024
New Executive at Central Bedfordshire Council
Councillor Adam Zerny, Leader of Central Bedfordshire Council, has made some changes to the composition of the Executive.
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Friday, 19 July 2024
Councillor Zerny re-elected as Leader at Central Bedfordshire Council
Councillor Adam Zerny was re-elected as the Leader of Central Bedfordshire Council on Thursday 18 July 2024.
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Monday, 13 May 2024
Chair and Vice Chair of Central Bedfordshire Council reappointed for second term
On Thursday 9 May, Councillor Gareth Mackey was reappointed as Chair of the Council. Councillor Sue Bell was also reappointed as Vice Chair to serve for the upcoming term spanning 2024/25
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Friday, 19 April 2024
Central Bedfordshire Council cuts councillor allowances
Councillors agreed last night (Thursday, 18 April 2024) at the meeting of the Full Council to reduce the allowances for councillors in order to contribute to savings being made by the Council.
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Friday, 12 April 2024
Household Support Fund: Executive allocate funding
At a meeting held on Tuesday (9 April), our Executive made a decision about how to allocate almost £1.5million of government funding to support local families.
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Friday, 13 January 2023
New Chair for Central Bedfordshire Council
At its Full Council meeting on Thursday, 12 January, Councillor Caroline Maudlin was elected as the new Chair of the Council. Councillor Neil Bunyan was elected as Vice-Chair.
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Friday, 14 October 2022
Council agrees for more locations across Dunstable to access its in-person services
The council’s Executive committee agreed on Tuesday (11 October) to continue to provide customers with the modern, convenient ways to access services from the council in the Dunstable area.
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Thursday, 8 September 2022
Arlesey residents: have your say on reducing the number of your town councillors
Residents in Arlesey are being asked for their thoughts on the number of town councillors in their parish.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2022
You could be the voice of your community by becoming a councillor
With local elections planned for 4 May 2023, we're inviting residents to consider standing as local councillors.
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Monday, 25 July 2022
Council votes to support LGA’S Debate Not Hate campaign
A motion to support the Local Government Association’s Debate Not Hate campaign was agreed at Central Bedfordshire Council’s Full Council meeting on Thursday 21 July 2022.
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Wednesday, 18 May 2022
A new chairman for Central Bedfordshire Council
Councillor Gordon Perham is the new chairman of Central Bedfordshire Council, having been elected by the Council last Thursday (12 May). Councillor Caroline Maudlin was elected as vice-chairman.
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Friday, 25 February 2022
Council agrees budget for 2022/23
At our Full Council meeting on 24 February, we agreed on our annual budget.
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Friday, 14 May 2021
Chairman and Vice Chairman for Central Bedfordshire Council are re-elected
Following Thursday, 13 May Council meeting, Councillor Brian Saunders, was re-elected as Chairman of Central Bedfordshire Council. Councillor Gordon Perham was also re-elected as Vice Chairman.
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Friday, 15 January 2021
New political leadership for Central Bedfordshire Council
Councillor Richard Wenham was elected as the new Leader of Central Bedfordshire Council at the first Full Council meeting of 2021, last night (14 January 2021).
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Tuesday, 12 January 2021
New political map for Central Bedfordshire
Central Bedfordshire is set to have new boundaries for its council wards.
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Thursday, 26 November 2020
Leadership changes at Central Bedfordshire Council
Councillor James Jamieson, who has led Central Bedfordshire Council since 2011, has announced that he will be standing down from this role in January.
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Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Councillors now have extra cash to help their communities
Councillors are to be given extra funding so that they help local groups in their area affected by the impact of COVID-19.