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Dear Colleagues You may not have noticed but Lorraine has been extremely industrious and, amongst some very impressive juggling and balancing, has also been reviewing and polishing areas of our website.  This is just the front end of the engine that feeds me with details about our courses and their uptake and how we use […]

Dear Colleagues Welcome to the end of the soggiest financial year in a while apparently,  I hope all is going well as you gather all your financial queries into one place and receive the right answers to them all.   The annual subscription invoices for BMKALC and NALC’s affiliation fees have now been sent out.  Please

Dear Members and Colleagues I’m back, having enjoyed a long awaited break away from it all, I have been thoroughly spoiled, fed three times a day alongside a cocktail in the evening, lots of swims and plenty of time to catch up on reading.  I turned all my notifications off and read about the role

Dear Clerks and Councillors Lets not even mention the weather! If you are experiencing flooding, you can call Floodline for advice at 03459881188. You should report flooding to Buckinghamshire Council and Flood help and advice | Milton Keynes City Council (milton-keynes.gov.uk)  If it is an emergency and flooding is causing a risk to life, you must call

Dear Colleagues Finally my afternoon school run completes whilst it is still light, hurrah!  It’s surprising how this small extension to our daylight hours boosts mood and energy levels and we see that reflected in your queries and contacts. Last week we concluded our Free January 2024 Training Events.  Our final event was beset with technical

Dear Council Colleagues Week 2 of Free January completed.  This week we heard from our young and future rising stars in our communities and local government, looked at how we can sell and market our parishes using interactive tours and looked at keeping our websites trim, fit for purpose and legal. Thank you to our

Dear Colleagues CLERKS PLEASE CIRCULATE TO COUNCILLORS Well, I definitely saw tiny flakes of snow.  However the sledges are wedged so high up in the rafters of the garage, I don’t need any more snow as I can’t reach them! I trust that for those communities that have been flooded out, that the necessary support

Dear Councillors and Clerks Qualification, Budgets, Street Cleaning, PCC and Opening Hours Well, this is our last View for 2023.  It’s been quite a year filled with highs and lows.  We have tried some new things, dropped some stale or unproductive activities, bade farewell to Helen, celebrated 75 completed years of Association, visited the House

Dear Members and Colleagues CLERKS PLEASE CIRCULATE TO COUNCILLORS Wow, this was a county wide planning week!  Two full training Planning Demystified days sandwiching the excellent MKALC Planning Conference.  Whilst intense and exhausting, it was also highly informative and energising.  Thank you everyone for your contributions.  To start the week we met a focus group

Dear Colleagues This week I attended the briefing session on Martyn’s Law hosted by the SLCC, over 450 attendees signed on to hear an update from the Home Office, views from both the SLCC and NALC and a peer experience from Shrewsbury Town Council.  The upshot is that whilst it isn’t law yet, there are