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Hosted by John Fagan · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 16 episodes
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Practical advice, real stories, and a bit of fun for everyone working in parish, town, and community councils across England and Wales.
John Fagan hosts Pod-on-the-Parish, a government show with 16 episodes published.
The Proper Practices are being rewritten. Claire Reed of NALC sets out what's changing — a new governance assertion, a code of practice for internal audit, and an accounts form that splits your reserves in two. A short b
The AGAR is going digital. Lance Allan of SAAA walks through the new online submission portal ahead of its 26/27 launch, and Claire Reed of NALC sets out what's changing in the Proper Practices rewrite — including the va
Martyn's Law sounds daunting — but for most parish and town councils the response is far smaller than the panic suggests. Alex Jay of Little Green Button cuts through the jargon on who's in scope, the tiers, and what a p
Employment law's biggest shake-up in a generation is here. HR specialist James Corrigan explains what the Employment Rights Act 2025 means for parish, town and community councils — from six-month unfair dismissal rights
Eleanor Greene is back — this time to walk you through the bit that comes after the AGAR submission: the external audit stage. In this episode, Eleanor covers what external auditors actually look for, why one in three co
Eleanor Greene — returning from Episode 3 — on what happens after you submit the AGAR: how to navigate external audit queries, explain variances, handle Assertion 10, and come out with a clean sign-off rather than a stre
Most clerks deal with planning applications, precepts, and the occasional difficult councillor. Gale Pettifer deals with all of that — plus donkeys cracking open wheelie bins, cars floating down the village high street,
Dr Gale Pettifer — Clerk & Proper Officer at Brockenhurst Parish Council and a practicing commoner with ponies roaming the New Forest — on what it's really like to manage a council where the residents include free-roamin
Stepping into a role that involves public money can feel overwhelming — especially when local council finance comes with its own rules, "proper practices" and terminology that can read like a different language. This epi
Hannah Driver — Head Accountant at Scribe and an eight-year veteran of town and parish council finance — strips the jargon out of local council accounting: the cashbook that underpins everything, receipts-and-payments vs
This one breaks the usual format. Instead of a single guest, we brought together a panel of people who know the sector — and the tech — to ask a deceptively simple question: if AI keeps developing at its current pace, wh
Something a bit different: a seven-strong panel on where AI takes parish and town councils over the next decade — automation, the changing clerk role, guardrails and hallucinations, data and GDPR, and keeping the human t
Every pound in a parish or town council's reserves represents a future investment in the community — playground repairs, village hall upkeep, the project a clerk hasn't yet thought of. Most councils default to a "safety
Jamie Charters — Client Relationship Manager at CCLA Investment Management and a 25-year lifer in the public-sector investment space — on what to do with the reserves. Why diversification beats a single bank account, how
Procurement doesn't have to be dreadful — and Tom Sykes makes a compelling case that it's actually one of the most important relationship-building exercises a parish or town council ever runs. Tom is the architect and fo
This one's different. The episode opens with a heads-up from John: don't listen to this in the car or walking the dog — it's a hands-on workshop, and you'll need the 14th edition of Arnold-Baker on Local Council Administ
Beckie Whitehouse joins the podcast for a deliberately different kind of year-end episode — not the AGAR-and-bank-rec mechanics, but the bit nobody talks about: keeping your head, your boundaries, and your evenings while
Mark Tomkins is back on the podcast — this time for a follow-up to his Assertion 10 session. The question now: once the website is compliant, how do you actually use it? Mark strips away the jargon and lays out what work
In this episode, John talks to Millie Manton from KOMPAN UK about why tweens and teens are the forgotten age group when it comes to playground and outdoor space design — and what councils can do about it. Millie draws on
In this episode, John sits down with Eleanor Greene — Chief Accountant at Do the Numbers Ltd and Secretary to the Internal Audit Forum — for a straight conversation about internal audit best practice ahead of Year End. E
Claire Reed
NALC
1 appearance on this show
Lance Allan
SAAA
1 appearance on this show
Alex Jay
Little Green Button
1 appearance on this show
Gale Pettifer
Brockenhurst Parish Council
1 appearance on this show
Tom Sykes
Common Works
1 appearance on this show
Julie King
Norfolk Parish Training and Support
1 appearance on this show
Beckie Whitehouse
Cloudless Sky Coaching
1 appearance on this show
Millie Manton
KOMPAN UK
1 appearance on this show
Eleanor Greene
Internal Audit Forum
1 appearance on this show
Nigel Hayes
Dorchester Town Council
1 appearance on this show
Mark Tomkins
Aubergine
1 appearance on this show
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