Wiltshire Council is due to set one of its most talked about budgets in many years at a full council meeting today.

The council is looking to make £30million of savings over the next year after funding cuts from government.

Last year, Wiltshire Council received £119million from Westminster but this is set to fall to £103.8million and the cut, combined with a rise in demand for key front line services and inflation costs, means £30m of savings need to be found.

More than 250 residents have attended meetings in Chippenham, Trowbridge, Devizes and Salisbury as more than 100 cost-cutting areas were identified.

The most significant of these cost saving measures include charging for garden waste collections; finding office efficiencies in support services; encouraging efficiencies in voluntary sector services; changing street lighting times and reviewing the opening times of Household Recycling Centres.

Organisations falling victim to the cuts include the housing support service Commuity4, which expects to shut next month when its funding of £758,000 is withdrawn, and the Wiltshire Music Service, where the equivalent of ten full time jobs are being lost and more than 70 music teachers will be made self employed to save £247,000.

The Chippenham branch of the Green Party has announced they intend to protest outside county hall ahead of the meeting against the severity of the cuts.

Our reporter Andrew Lawton will be at the meeting and sending regular updates via twitter.