[UPDATE 26/02/2026: Privacy notice for this consultation added to this page]
Councillors want to hear your views on spending priorities for the coming financial year, so we're holding a meeting which is open to all businesses and residents. The details for the meeting are as follows:
Date: Thursday 26 February 2026
Time: 5pm - 6.30pm
Venue: Wesleyan Chapel, St Mary’s
Dial into meeting: 020 7660 8305 (phone conference ID: 983 835 476#)
If you are unable to attend in person
Please be aware that if you are unable to attend this meeting in person, you are welcome to join by conference call using the dial-in details above.
Please understand that this call may have a lot of participants on it, so we ask that anyone dialling in mutes their phone, unless invited to speak. If there are any issues with particular lines, we may need to remove those lines from the call to ensure the meeting can proceed smoothly.
If you would like to submit a question to be asked at the budget consultation meeting on your behalf, please email your question to Councillor Stuart Nixon, Lead member for Finance, Governance, Risk and Performance and Corporate Services at stuart.nixon@scilly.gov.uk by noon on Thursday 26 February 2026.
How to view the draft budget proposals
A summary of the latest draft budget proposals can be viewed at the following link:
Draft budget proposal summary document
Printed copies of this document will also be available at the meeting venue on the day of the meeting.
How to comment on the draft budget proposals
If you would like to provide written feedback on the budget proposals following the meeting, please either:
- email your comments to Councillor Stuart Nixon, Lead Member for Finance, Governance, Risk and Performance and Corporate Services at stuart.nixon@scilly.gov.uk; or
- deliver your comments to St Mary’s Library in a sealed envelope, marked for Councillor Nixon's attention.
Please submit your written comments by noon on Friday 27 February 2026 to ensure they can be considered ahead of the budget being presented to Members at an Extraordinary meeting of Full Council on 10 March 2026. Details of this meeting will be published on the committee pages of our website in due course.
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Privacy Notice for the budget consultation 2026-27
As this is a hybrid meeting, both in-person and virtual, the Wesleyan Chapel camera and microphone are live and the meeting is being recorded to assist with keeping a record of the meeting and feedback from the consultation.
We will use the information you provide to inform the Council of the Isles of Scilly's budget for 2026-27 and the Medium Term Financial Plan 2026-2029.
The Data Controller for the information you provide in this survey is the Council of the Isles of Scilly, Old Wesleyan Chapel, Garrison Lane, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0JD. Data Protection Registration Number: Z5715100. Once the consultation has finished, your data will be held within the Council’s secure network and premises for up to 1 year. Where you supply personal data, we will only make access to this data available to authorised members of staff who are required to process it for the purposes of the consultation process. Please note that feedback that you provide may be used to present to Members at Full Council to consider when making decisions relating to the budget.