The council is seeking views from city residents on next year’s finances with an online ‘budget simulator’. The exercise is spearheading a far reaching public consultation to survey people’s views and to increase understanding of how the council spends its money and the difficult decisions ahead to balance the budget in a time of financial constraint. This interactive budget simulator gives you the chance to tell us how you’d like spending prioritised across six themes. You can increase, decrease or make no changes to each service. But can you get the budget to balance?

Take part in this consultation at http://www.budgetsimulator.com/brightonandhove