Financial Information
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The council’s financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March. Information for the current and last financial year are below. For earlier years see the Archive page.
2025-26 Financial Year
Accounts and Audit for 2025-26 financial year
The preparation, audit and publication of parish councils’ accounts is a formal process governed by The Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 and the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015. The following gives an overview of the process for this Council.
In April 2026 the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2026, including the Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR), were prepared and an Internal Audit Report undertaken. The accounts and AGAR (including the Internal Auditor’s report) were approved by the Meeting of the Council on 20 May 2026. Again Council’s expenditure exceeded £25,000. In this case Council cannot declare itself exempt from external audit so the accounting documents are currently marked as “Unaudited” and have been sent to the Government appointed external auditor who will carry out a limited assurance review. These and other financial documents relating to 2025-26 are published below.
Following Council approval of the accounts and Annual Return, there is a statutory period of 30 working days for the public and local electors to exercise their rights to inspect these documents and other financial documents underlying them (such as invoices and receipts). Additionally local electors may submit questions or objections to the external auditors. The notice of “Exercise of Public Rights 2025-26” is given below and has also been placed on public noticeboards around the Group Parish concerning the dates for this, which are Monday 29th June 2026 until Friday 7th August 2026 inclusive.
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