Mayor Dave Hodgson has announced that most fees and charges for Council services for residents will be frozen this year to help people with the Cost of Living Crisis. This includes freezing marriage and registration costs, cremation or burial service costs and freezing car park charges for the sixth year in a row.
From 14th October 2022, over 50s will be invited to book in their autumn booster vaccine thanks to the huge uptake of Autumn boosters.
Thousands of families across Bedford Borough, who are entitled to income related free school meals, will be given vouchers for the October half term and Christmas holidays.
Now in its eighteenth year, Recycle Week is the nation's biggest celebration of recycling. This Recycle Week, Recycle Now and Bedford Borough Council are 'getting real', about how we can all tackle recycling together.
Earlier this month Mayor Dave Hodgson wrote to the Secretary of State for Transport calling on the government to return the fines from average speed cameras to Bedford Borough Council to allow reinvestment in road safety measures. The government have refused this call and instead decided to continue to retain all the money from fines generated by average speed cameras. This means that Bedford Borough residents will not see a penny of these funds invested into new road safety measures.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bedford Borough residents who held a statutory English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) pass were able to travel on bus journeys outside the hours of operation of the scheme for a discounted fare of £1.
