This event will provide an in-depth exploration of the essential principles for managing current and future assets.
Parish and town councils are increasingly tasked with managing a broad array of critical assets, often while facing pressure from financially constrained principal authorities to take on additional community facilities.
This event will provide an in-depth exploration of the essential principles for managing current and future assets. We’ll address the challenges of overseeing new facilities, which may come with business rates and minimal financial support or advance notice from principal authorities.
Attendees will learn comprehensive asset management strategies to oversee existing assets and effectively integrate new responsibilities. Discover practical approaches for navigating financial constraints, including handling facilities with business rates and other financial implications despite limited funding. Gain valuable strategic insights to optimise your asset management practices and stay ahead of evolving challenges with actionable advice.
Sponsors: Blachere Illumination, CCLA and Clear Councils Insurance
NB: NALC reserves the right to change the programme at any time.


Research fellow in sustainable and inclusive enterprise, Middlesex University


Head of services (Central and North), Locality
Alison Berwick is the head of services (Central and North) at Locality, where she leads support for community-led development organisations across the region. With over 25 years’ experience in the heritage, culture and community engagement sectors, Alison has developed specialist expertise in project development, capacity-building and community ownership initiatives, including bringing vacant historic buildings back into use and guiding high-street regeneration and community-share ventures.

Research fellow in sustainable and inclusive enterprise, Middlesex University
Dr Amy Burnett is a research fellow in sustainable and inclusive enterprise at Middlesex University’s Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research, within the Faculty of Business and Law in London. Her research focuses on regenerative value, redistributive solutions capturing the value of nature and society, nature-positive finance, planning and the built environment, and inclusive enterprise, with particular attention to civil society and local government’s role in sustainable development and placemaking. She combines extensive international field experience (in Southern Africa, Brazil and the UK) with specialist expertise in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and communications. Her practitioner background includes neighbourhood-planning consultancy, the establishment of community-led energy and housing organisations, and advising social enterprises on impact measurement and regenerative procurement.

Deputy clerk, Thetford Town Council
Alan Yorke is the deputy clerk and head of corporate services at Thetford Town Council, with a strong background in public sector finance and governance. A qualified accountant, he previously worked in South Africa supporting the transformation of local government, developing the country's first local government accounting standards and helping to establish a national public sector standard-setting body. He has also delivered development finance projects across sub-Saharan Africa for organisations including the World Bank, USAID and the UK Department for International Development. After returning to the UK in 2010, Alan joined Thetford Town Council in 2019 as a finance officer and now leads on financial management and corporate services with a focus on strong governance and sustainability.
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