Palma's €1.95 million plan lifts grants for seniors

Palma, Mallorca: Older people’s groups could receive grants of up to €9,000 each under a €1.95 million council budget plan for 2027. Palma City Council presented the plan on Monday, 9 November 2026. Its budget for older people and intercultural programmes is 1.4% higher than the previous year.

More support for older people’s groups

The council wants to keep and strengthen meeting spaces in neighbourhood centres and older people’s clubs. It also plans to draw up Palma’s first municipal plan for older people, using a study of their needs and suggestions to guide its work. Its advice office will continue to explain what help and activities are available and support people with administrative procedures.

The proposed budget sets aside €300,000 in grants for older people’s associations and other groups running activities for them. The maximum grant per association would rise by €1,000 to €9,000. A separate €130,000 fund would support organisations that let older people’s associations use their rooms free of charge.

Translation and neighbourhood projects

Palma also plans an additional translation and interpreting service, alongside workshops and mediation in its neighbourhoods. It would keep a €125,000 grant fund for projects promoting human rights and good relations between communities.

The council’s contribution to the Fondo Mallorquín de Solidaridad y Cooperación would rise by 18% to €95,000. Funding for the Vacances en Pau project would move into that agreement; until now, it has been a separate grant to the Association of Friends of the Sahrawi People of the Balearics.

Topics: Social affairs · Politics · Palma

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com