East Sussex County Council runs schools, social care, roads,
libraries and waste disposal across the county, Hastings included. From
July 2025 to June 2026 it paid £75m to payees with a
Hastings or St Leonards postcode: 8.0% of the
£927m it paid out.
£75mpaid to payees in Hastings and St Leonards
8.0%of everything the county paid out
£927mthe county paid out in all
Quarter by quarter
Paid to payees in Hastings and St Leonards, by quarter
Apr–Jun 2025
£16m
Jul–Sep 2025
£19m
Oct–Dec 2025
£19m
Jan–Mar 2026
£20m
Apr–Jun 2026
£17m
The largest payees here
Organisations the county paid, with a postcode in TN34, TN35, TN37
or TN38. Schools, nurseries and care providers are paid for the children and
people they look after.
EAST SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST(F) (a public body)£11m108 payments · 15% of the total
HASTINGS BOROUGH COUNCIL (LOCAL TAXATION) (another council)£3.1m29 payments · 4% of the total
TORFIELD & SAXON MOUNT ACADEMY£3.1m50 payments · 4% of the total
247 TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS LTD£3.1m796 payments · 4% of the total
VICS TRANSPORT£2.9m566 payments · 4% of the total
ARTEMIS NURSERY HOLLINGTON£2.9m44 payments · 4% of the total
CLIVE VALE NURSERY SCHOOL£2.3m36 payments · 3% of the total
HASTINGS BOROUGH COUNCIL (another council)£2.2m72 payments · 3% of the total
COLOURS DECORATING LTD£2.1m60 payments · 3% of the total
THE MEADOWS NURSERY SCH (HASTINGS)£2.0m41 payments · 3% of the total
CLIVE VALE NURSERY SCHOOL (CLIVE A)£2.0m39 payments · 3% of the total
JIGSAW YMCA LTD£1.7m40 payments · 2% of the total
CAROUSEL NURSERY SCHOOL (ST LEON)£1.7m35 payments · 2% of the total
EARLY BEGINNINGS NURSERIES LTD£1.6m36 payments · 2% of the total
ARTEMIS CHILDCARE LTD£1.6m53 payments · 2% of the total
What the money was for
As the county's files describe each payment, for the payees here.
Grants£35m1,366 payments · 47% of the total
Contracts for Services - Other Health Bodies£8.2m32 payments · 11% of the total
Hire of Vehicles & Plant£7.5m1,658 payments · 10% of the total
SEN High Needs Top Up Payments£7.4m476 payments · 10% of the total
General Payments (Other Local Authorities)£3.8m48 payments · 5% of the total
Main contract (Construction)£1.9m44 payments · 3% of the total
Funding for Schools£1.6m34 payments · 2% of the total
General Payments (Other Establishments)£1.6m91 payments · 2% of the total
Rents & Lettings£866k57 payments · 1% of the total
Loans to Organisations£650k1 payment · 1% of the total
By postcode district
TN37£28m · 37%
TN38£24m · 32%
TN34£20m · 26%
TN35£3.3m · 4%
How this is counted
From the county's own payments files: every payment of
£500 or more, by the date on each line. A payee's postcode is where the county
pays it, which is not always where the work is done: a national firm with a
Hastings office counts here, and a local service run from Lewes doesn't.
TN35 also reaches a few villages just outside the borough.
Counted from April 2025. The county's files before then are laid out
differently and hold far less a quarter (about £110m, against £180m and more
since), with payments booked to account codes the older files don't use, so
they aren't set beside the newer ones.
Left out of every figure: tax, national insurance and pension contributions
passed on from staff pay, and money passing through rather than spent. Payees
the council withholds, and payees whose names read as a person's, are never
listed and their postcode isn't kept; with payees whose files gave no postcode,
they come to £12m that can't be placed.