Events
Making Effective Planning Representations
**Summary** This 2.5 hour session will explain the principles which underpin how a planning decision is made, and how your comments as a consultee can be drafted to best effect. It will give you an understanding of the key terminology…
Berkshire ALC Annual General Meeting 2026
Berkshire ALC Annual General Meeting will take place on 12th November 2026 Please arrive from 19:00 hrs for registration and refreshments, with the AGM to commence at 19:30hrs prompt. Agenda and additional papers will be provided in due course prior…
Local Council Governance - Understanding Your Responsibilities
**Summary** As a Parish and Town Councillor you bear ultimate responsibility for ensuring the Council is well governed and that public money is being spent appropriately. This course will explain these responsibilities and outline some suggested processes to have in…
Community Engagement
**Summary** Local councils engage routinely with their communities through a variety of channels, and receive feedback on a multitude of issues in, and affecting, their area. Community engagement is a form of communication, but making it meaningful involves more than…
Preventing Sexual Harassment
**Summary** To fulfil your duty of care to your employees, it is vital that councils as employers understand the impact of sexual harassment and the steps to take to prevent it. This 2 hour course will give you an understanding…
Digital and Data Compliance
**Summary** This 2 hour session is designed to update council’s on data protection legislation and how to achieve compliance with Assertion 10 on the Annual Governance & Accountability Return. Suitable Audience Councillors, Clerks and office staff who handle personal data.…
Political Awareness
**Summary** Politics can contribute to the success or failure of any local council, and, in the most egregious examples, it threatens to destroy the harmony and good work for all involved. Some clerks and staff are uncomfortable with the risk…
Clerk and Officers Update
These sessions, for local council employees, are relatively informal and are designed for information sharing and networking. Topical subjects are introduced, occasionally by external expert speakers. You will also have time to raise own issues and questions and given a…
County Forum
The County Forum allows member councils to interact and share best practice as well as raising and considering matters of relevance to local councils in Hampshire. Further information about specific speakers and presentations will be provided closer to the event…