Bristol’s budget 2026 to 2027

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Each year, Bristol City Council has to plan:

  • How much money we will spend
  • Where to get the money we plan to spend

This plan is called a budget.

This survey has questions for you to answer to help us make our budget.

About our budget

This year, Bristol City Council has some challenges to pay for all of the services it provides.

We think we will have £20.8 million less to spend on services than we need.

More people in Bristol need our services, as there are more people living here and more people are getting older.

We get money to pay for services from Council Tax and from the government.

Council Tax is money that people pay to their local council for important services like helping families who need more support, emptying bins and fixing roads.

We are thinking about increasing the Council Tax that people in Bristol pay.

But this is not enough to pay for everything.

So we have some plans to stop spending as much money on some services.

Please tell us what you think of our plans by answering the questions in this survey.

What do you think?

Before we decide how much we ask people to pay, we want to know what you think.

Please read this survey and tell us what you think by answering the questions.

You do not have to answer all the questions if you do not want to.

Please finish this survey by Wednesday 26 November 2025.