By some quirk of numeric jiggery-pokery, the amount of Council Tax raised by MHDC in the Tenbury Ward exactly equals the amount they spend on subsidising the Malvern Theatre.
In defense MHDC, spend £65K subsidising the Tenbury Swimming Pool and will spend an additional £8.5k funding free swimming for the over 60s.
They spend £5k on Cafe 27, also grant aid the CAB and the Museum.
Last year they match funded the creation of the ill conceived Civic Garden and this year will fund a £40k improvement to the skate park.
This is in addition to their duties and planners, household refuse removers and suppliers of concessionary bus passes.
Anyone wishing to discuss these figures or any other MHDC business are invited to attend the District Councillors "surgery" held in the library building on the first Friday of the month.
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MHDC does spend some money on subsidising Tenbury's pool, but of course part of the Council Tax Tenbury residents pay goes to Malvern to subsidise their pool, which had some fantastically expensive work a few years ago, largely paid for by MHDC (i.e. by us), so Tenbury loses out on this.
Over-60s will also get free swimming in Malvern - this is not a 'special offer' for Tenbury and the simple fact is that more people will take it up in Malvern. So again, Tenbury loses out.
Why do MHDC subsidise Cafe 27? If this was open more, for the benefit of the whole community, perhaps as a creche in the morning and an over-60s club in the afternoon, then it shouldn't lose money.
The CAB is pretty well off at the moment - see the story in this week's local paper - so why is MHDC funding it?
I asked a committee member of Tenbury Museum if they get a grant from MHDC and the real answer is no. They get rent-free premises, which don't even have a toilet, but that is all. They have to cover all the other costs themselves.
The Civic Sensory Garden is being paid for by the Market Towns Initiative - not by MHDC. MHDC's small 'match fund' contribution to the 'Better Welcome' grant does no more than pay for the signs and benches. These are standard public realm work, which the Council is expected to pay for in any case. So money that should give visitors a better welcome, largely won't.
The skate park money is external funding ('da bid') not MHDC money.
It would be nice if MHDC got some money that would benefit the whole community - the Council does not seem to care about middle-aged people.
MHDC even provides free parking in Malvern for evenings and weekends - in Tenbury we have to pay through the nose if we want to stop more than two hours.
Add in facts like Tenbury Town Council (i.e. local residents) pay for maintaining The Burgage, but the whole district pays for the posh park outside the Council Buildings in Malvern, where Council Staff can picnic by the lake on a nice day, and it's obvious that Tenbury is getting a raw deal.
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