Thurs 23rd Oct 2025 6 – 7.30pm
On Zoom
£20 (invoice to councils afterwards)
During the autumn your council will start to plan for its 2026/27 budget and so this training is timed to coincide with this important task.
We will be dealing with the key components of preparing your council’s budget and managing it throughout the year.
The training will comprise:
- Financing of local councils including your precept
- Understanding Council Tax bases
- Setting your budget/precept request and the impact of inflation, cashflows and using cost centres
- Understanding Reserves
- Budget monitoring
This course is suitable for all clerks/RFOs and councillors. It contains relevant content for CiLCA Unit 4.
Our presenter will be Steve Parkinson of the Parkinson Partnership.
Steve has over 30 years of local government finance experience at county, district and town council level, serving as Town Clerk for Alton in Hampshire from 2001 to 2015.
Click here to book on Budgeting for parish and town councils Thurs 23rd Oct 6-7.30pm on Zoom
Please note that bookings and cancellations will close 48 hours before the course. Cancellations should be emailed to cdalc@durham.gov.uk. After this time all live bookings will be charged whether the person attends or not, but non attendees will be sent the presentation. Councils will be invoiced after each event.
Our online training will be delivered using Zoom and the online weblink will be emailed to participants no later than 24 hours before the event.