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Where Did It Go?

What your council spent, on what, with whom - taken straight from the payments-over-£500 data every council must publish by law. We add nothing: each figure links back to the file the council published. You draw the conclusions.

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Cheltenham Borough Council

Borough council

£4,044,415 across 369 payments in the archive · retrieved 25 Jul 2026

Where it went - by service

The council’s own service areas, largest first.

  • Household Waste 2 payments£750,799 · 19%
  • Phase 3 Development 7 payments£670,249 · 17%
  • Development costs - Monkscroft 3 payments£367,178 · 9%
  • Window & Door Renewals 4 payments£167,113 · 4%
  • Legal 1 payments£156,712 · 4%
  • Insurances 5 payments£151,005 · 4%
  • Supervision and Management 9 payments£119,156 · 3%
  • Publica Business Support Contract 1 payments£114,143 · 3%
  • External Improvements 1 payments£113,082 · 3%
  • CBH Intercompany Account 2 payments£102,308 · 3%
  • Cyber Business Park 17 payments£94,408 · 2%
  • Development costs - Pennine Road 2 payments£77,466 · 2%

Biggest suppliers

  • Ubico Limited 1 payments£746,799
  • E.G. Carter & Co. Limited 2 payments£365,715
  • Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers Limited 7 payments£278,617
  • Tewkesbury Borough Council 6 payments£172,239
  • Nationwide Windows Limited 3 payments£166,511
  • Publica Group (Support) Limited 1 payments£114,143
  • Joyner P A Ltd 1 payments£113,082
  • The Surveying Practice - Client Account 7 payments£94,230
  • Cheltenham Bid Limited 3 payments£87,537
  • British Gas Social Housing Ltd t/a PH Jones 19 payments£78,796

Largest single payments

  • Ubico LimitedHousehold Waste£746,799
  • Redacted (personal data)Phase 3 Development£354,723
  • E.G. Carter & Co. LimitedDevelopment costs - Monkscroft · 12 Apr 2020£213,054
  • Tewkesbury Borough CouncilLegal · 12 Apr 2020£156,712
  • E.G. Carter & Co. LimitedDevelopment costs - Monkscroft£152,662
  • Nationwide Windows LimitedWindow & Door Renewals · 12 Nov 2020£151,639
  • Redacted (personal data)Phase 3 Development · 12 Oct 2020£145,000
  • Publica Group (Support) LimitedPublica Business Support Contract£114,143
  • Joyner P A LtdExternal Improvements · 12 Apr 2020£113,082
  • Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers LimitedSupervision and Management · 12 Apr 2020£110,400
  • Redacted (personal data)Phase 3 Development£108,000
  • Redacted (personal data)CBH Intercompany Account · 12 Sept 2020£98,527
  • Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers LimitedInsurances · 12 Apr 2020£94,369
  • J Harper & Sons (Leominster) LimitedDevelopment costs - Pennine Road · 12 Nov 2020£76,641
  • The Cheltenham TrustCultural - Service Management and Support Services£67,607
  • Cheltenham Bid LimitedCheltenham Business Improvement District (BID) Levy£38,141
  • Redacted (personal data)Phase 3 Development · 12 Nov 2020£37,706
  • Snape Contracting Services LimitedPaths, Fences & Walls · 12 Apr 2020£34,709
  • A1 Maintenance (Stroud) LimitedCheltenham Municipal Offices£33,846
  • Cheltenham Bid LimitedXmas in Cheltenham£32,900

Source: Cheltenham Borough Council’s published payments data (Local Government Transparency Code). Figures as published; personal-data payees are shown as redacted by the council. No causal claim is made or implied.

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