Welcome to Our AI Resource Hub
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming an incredibly useful tool for parish and town councils. It can help clerks, councillors, and volunteers work more efficiently—whether that’s drafting minutes, analysing consultation feedback, creating policy documents, or supporting day‑to‑day workflows.
When used responsibly, AI can help councils:
- save time and improve productivity
- make clearer, more informed decisions
- communicate more effectively with residents
- strengthen engagement and good governance
Our aim is to help councils get the benefits of AI while using it safely and ethically.
About Our AI Resources
The resources in this section are designed to be used alongside AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Google NotebookLM. By combining these documents with AI software, clerks and councillors can streamline everyday tasks, improve accuracy, and build a growing bank of useful information over time.
Whether you're drafting reports, analysing data, summarising meetings, or generating ideas, these documents help you provide AI tools with the right structure and context. This means you’ll get clearer, more reliable outputs and can gradually develop an AI‑supported knowledge base tailored to your council’s work.
The Essential Clerk 2021
Practitioners Guide
Local Councils Explained 2025
Financial Regulations 2025
Standing Orders - PDF
Standing Orders - Word
The Good Councillor Guides - All available on our A-Z Page.