NALC publishes its quarterly activity report
We have published our quarterly activity report covering January to March 2025.
The quarterly activity report details progress in delivering our strategic plan, including information on critical internal issues, parliamentary and government affairs work, events, finances, media coverage, publications and legal advice. It features updates from across all our teams under different themed topics.
This quarter's report summarises the organisation's strategic direction and significant milestones during the reporting period. Key highlights include:
- Launching the Star Council Awards 2025/26. The only national awards celebrating the incredible contributions of England's parish and town councils.
- Achieving a major breakthrough for parish and town councils, as the government has backed a proposal to reintroduce remote and hybrid council meetings.
- We met with Alex Norris MP, Kevin Hollinrake MP, David Simmonds MP and Vikki Slade MP to discuss devolution, local government reorganisation and neighbourhood plans.
- We launched our Westminster Forum to strengthen the voice of England's 10,000 parish and town councils in national politics.
- We published the 2025 edition of the Practitioners' Guide. The most notable changes were the requirement for parish and town councils to have a generic email account hosted on an authority-owned domain and a new Assertion 10.
- We published a joint guide on responding to planning applications with the CPRE to empower communities to shape local development.
- We unveiled the all-new digital edition of Local Councils Explained, a must-read guide for anyone involved in parish and town councils. Fully updated for today's legal and digital landscape.
- 193 people attended NALC events in the latest quarter. This includes our sold-out Power Shift 2025 conference in London, our sold-out study tour at Braunstone Town Council and an online event on strengthening local connections.
- We responded to 51 formal advice requests, as well as a further 112 direct enquiries that were not formally logged, from parish and town councils and county associations.
- Our communications and compliance support service, provided by Breakthrough Communications, handled 58 queries.
- Five parish and town councils were accredited under the Local Council Award Scheme (three Silver and two Bronze), while training sessions on the scheme were delivered to multiple county associations.
- 110 enrolments in our online courses via the Nimble e-learning.
The subsequent report covers July to September 2025 and will be published in October 2025.
