Tonight (27 February), Brent’s Full Council approved the final budget for 2025-26.
The budget, shaped in collaboration with residents and Brent’s Scrutiny Task Group, sets the council’s spending priorities for the year ahead. The average council tax for 2025/26 is £41.02 per week, based on a band D property.
It will also unlock investment in young people to get the best start in life and will continue the funding for our top-performing schools, Family Wellbeing Centres, and Holiday Activity and Food programmes.
As part of our ‘Don’t Mess with Brent’ initiative, residents will also see a cleaner Brent with more Community Skips, more Enforcement Officers, and higher fines for those that are caught using our streets as their own bin.
The budget navigates the balance between delivering the services that matter most to residents and making the savings needed to keep the council’s finances on a sustainable path.
A further £800,000 will go to projects including an upgrade to Kilburn Library, with £400,000 towards improving the Gladstone Park sports pitch and other parks and green open spaces across the borough.
The council has also allocated £1.5million towards a new hardship fund to support residents that need our help the most during the cost of-living crisis.
