The grant from the Town Hall to the brotherhoods of Cordoba will reach 360,000 euros

This is indicated in the project execution bases budget municipal, which was approved this week by the Local Government Council and which will now have to go through the entire process until its approval to come into force in 2025. In 2024 it amounted to 313,000 euros, the same as ‘in 2023 and 2022. . In 2021, it was 300,000, so in four years the increase will have been 20 percent.

The Cordoba City Hall continues to increase the amount, which has continued to grow since the arrival of Jose Maria Bellido at the City Hall: in 2019, the last year with Isabel Ambrosio, it was a little more than 228,000 euros. In just over five years, what the brotherhoods receive has increased by 57 percent.

The subsidy paid to the Brotherhood Group is independent of other in-kind collaborations carried out by the Cordoba City Hall, and which have as an example the transfer of the Grand Theater for the proclamation of Holy Week, the publication of the poster or the installation of infrastructure for certain activities.

This amount of 360,000 euros is intended to mitigate the invoices created by the processional exits of the brotherhoods, in sections such as wax, flower and musicand this is why it must be justified with the invoices provided by the suppliers. This is one of the most important agreements signed by the city council each year.

Until 2021 it was normal that it only covered this aspect, but at that time the municipality modified the system to provide broader coverage of its work. THE to agree It is also for the general functioning of the brotherhoods throughout the year.

Invoices

Insurance, security and control methods, actions against Covid or training tasks are also expenses that can be justified, in the same way as heritage actions. The Group can justify up to ten percent of the subsidy in pure administrativewhich are those which derive from its own functioning.

This was at a time when fraternities were beginning to emerge from the coronavirus and were struggling to justify subsidies. THE Intervention The municipal authorities did not take into account expenses that had nothing to do with the processions as such, at a time when they could not go out either due to the restrictions of the pandemic.

It was a way of sticking to the spirit of an agreement drawn up at a time when the suspension of a processional exit It was only considered because of rain or an unforeseen event, and never because of an illness that made it impossible even to install the steps or put up the flowers, as happens when the weather is unstable prevents processions.

From there, the system was modified with the idea that in the future the legal problems that needed to be resolved could not arise, especially in 2021. If there were again mass suspensions of processions for a reason other than the rain, the brotherhoods would continue to receive the money.

The increase in allocation also comes in a year where the contribution of official career It was not very high because of the rains which marked the whole of Holy Week. Even though almost all boxes and a significant part of the places were already reserved for each day, and therefore also paid for, the full places for Wednesday, Thursday and Good Friday were lost.

There was no income from chairs loose for those days which, being public holidays or the eve of vacations, would have been full. This money also did not reach the coffers of the Group or therefore of the brotherhoods, which then distribute it according to a criterion which includes the number of stages, and in which the corporations of glory also participate, to a different extent.

In recent years, the Town Hall has also supported the work of the Group of Brotherhoods in the social program “Step by step, with big steps”, with an amount of 80,000 euros.