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Setting up a community run post office

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Setting up a community run post office

Just under 200 community-run shops and pubs also provide post office services, often in rural areas where people can face significant barriers to accessing essential services. Citizen’s Advice Bureau ...

Jul 3, 2025

Updated NALC Model Financial Regulations May 2024 and guidance

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Updated NALC Model Financial Regulations May 2024 and guidance

The NALC Model Financial Regulations have been updated. The previous version was issued in July 2019, these are replaced by the May 2024 version which is now available in the Members Area of our websi...

Jul 3, 2025

20 actions town and parish councils can take on the climate emergency

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20 actions town and parish councils can take on the climate emergency

This guide complements Friends of the Earth’s template Local Climate Action Plan1. The guide identifies actions that parish and town councils can take on climate change and nature. Its purpose is to s...

Jul 3, 2025

Governance and Accountability for Smaller Authorities or The Practitioners Guide

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Governance and Accountability for Smaller Authorities or The Practitioners Guide

The Practitioners’ Guide is issued by the Joint Panel on Accountability and Governance (JPAG) to support the preparation by smaller authorities in England of statutory annual accounting and governance...

Jul 3, 2025

The Good Councillor's Guide to Community Business December 2020

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The Good Councillor's Guide to Community Business December 2020

NALC and the Plunkett Foundation have launched The Good Councillor's Guide to Community Business to promote the opportunities that community businesses can create locally. You can find a copy to downl...

Jul 3, 2025

NALC The Good Councillor's guide to cyber security

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NALC The Good Councillor's guide to cyber security

NALC published The Good Councillor's guide to cyber security in partnership with Microshade VSM. The guide aims to help local (parish and town) councils understand the importance of cyber security bet...

Jul 3, 2025

RHA Parish Councillor's guide to Affordable Housing

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RHA Parish Councillor's guide to Affordable Housing

English Rural published a guide (PARISH COUNCILLORS’ GUIDE TO RURAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING) aimed at local (parish and town) councillors on affordable rural housing. Rural communities can only thrive if g...

Jul 3, 2025

NALC publication on website accessibility

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NALC publication on website accessibility

The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) has a guide on website accessibility and publishing guidelines. The guide aims to help local (parish and town) councils ensure their websites meet the...

Jul 3, 2025

Assets of Community Value database

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Assets of Community Value database

Keep It in the Community [1] (KIITC) is an online database of all community assets in England, such as pubs, shops and land, that have been nominated or registered as an Asset of Community Value (ACV)...

Jul 3, 2025

Internal Audit Forum

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Internal Audit Forum

The Internal Audit Forum is a professional body to support independent internal auditors and to ensure high standards among them. Internal Audit for Parish and Town Councils is very different from tha...

Jul 3, 2025

Protecting parks and green spaces with Fields in Trust

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Protecting parks and green spaces with Fields in Trust

Parks and green spaces are places of joy and togetherness valued by the entire community from pre-school children to retired adults. We all have fond memories of our favourite places to play, enjoy sp...

Jul 3, 2025

Sec 137 amount for 2023-24

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Sec 137 amount for 2023-24

The letter from Ben Greener, Deputy Director, Communities & Integration Directorate, Department of Levelling Up, Homes and Communities to Jonathan Owen, CEO of NALC, dated 6th February states: This is...

Jul 3, 2025

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