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Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

Year-end & Audit

All of our finance training is provided by Parkinson Partnership. They release relevant training at the time of the year for when you most need it. We have two courses relating to year-end and audit: ...

Finance Officer Development Framework Training

Nov 24, 2023 Training News

Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

Finance for Councillors

More dates have been added to the website for Finance for Councillors in 2024. Click here to book your places Book places [1] [1] /training/finance-for-councillors...

Councillor Development Framework Finance Training

Nov 21, 2023 Training News

Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

Are you thinking about CiLCA?

Are you thinking about CiLCA? Does your council want you to complete CiLCA? We're putting on a free session for clerks and officers to attend to find out more about what's involved with CiLCA, what th...

CiLCA Training

Oct 17, 2023 Training News

Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

What's on the agenda?

The *National Training Strategy *commissioned a training video of how * not *to run council meetings at a local (parish and town) council level. Whilst the video is some years old, a lot of the faux ...

Training

Oct 4, 2023 Training News

Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

Budgeting Training

It's around this time that you'll start to look at your budgets for next year, some of you may have even already started! We've got the courses for both clerks and Councillors to help to know what to ...

Finance Training

Oct 4, 2023 Training News

Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

FREE ACAS Webinars

Acas are an organisation that gives employees and employers free and impartial advice on matters related to employment. They offer a range of paid for training as well as free webinars; Disciplinary...

Free Course Training

Sep 27, 2023 Training News

Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

The Code of Conduct in Practice - NEW DATE ADDED!

We've added a new date for The Code of Conduct in Practice! This course will look at the practical operation of the Code of Conduct at parish and town council level and will answer all your questions...

Training

Sep 20, 2023 Training News

Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR)

The ICO have created some helpful videos about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR). *Module 1 * Part 1: Overview of FOIA and EIR [1] Part 2: Requests unde...

Training

Sep 14, 2023 Training News

Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

CiLCA 2024

Did you know that although our CiLCA programme starts in March each year we invoice in the April?! This allows Clerks to get the cost for CiLCA into their budgets in time for the next programme. So if...

CiLCA Training

Sep 6, 2023 Training News

Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

Finance Training - more dates!

More dates for the following finance courses have now been added to the website: Budgeting for clerks and finance staff [1] Finance for Councillors [2] New Clerk's Finance [3] Procurement [4] VAT...

Finance Training

Jul 25, 2023 Training News

Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

New Clerks Finance Training - FREE

New Clerks Finance training will now be offered *free of charge *to new clerks within the* first 12 months *of commencing their role. The course is designed to give an overview of a council's year, al...

Free Course Training

Jul 25, 2023 Training News

Northamptonshire County Association of Local Councils, Marie Reilly

NEW: Councillor Development Framework Workbook and Training Matrix

We've developed a workbook for councillors to keep track of their progress for each stage of the Councillor Development Framework. The workbook can be completed digitally or a print friendly version h...

Councillor Development Framework Training

Jul 10, 2023 Training News

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