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Become a Macmillan volunteer car driver
Transport can be a real worry for people affected by cancer living in the Forest. Can you help?
Become a Macmillan volunteer driver with partners, Lydcare and Lydney Dial-a-Ride.
To find out more, give Louise at Lydney Dial-a-Ride a call on 01594 843809 or email louise@lydneydialaride.co.uk
Posted: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:11 by Anita Sach
NALC Chief Executive's bulletin
Meeting of chairman and vice chairmen
The NALC newly elected chairman, Cllr Sue Baxter (Worcestershire), vice-chairman (finance), Cllr Keith Stevens (East Sussex), and vice-chairman (member services), Cllr Mike Drew (Avon), met this week with the NALC Chief Officer and the corporate management team to map out the priorities for the next two years, and how they would work together as a team to promote... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:15 by Alison Robinson
NALC Chief Executive's bulletin
Happy New Year and chairman's open letter
This is the first bulletin of the 2020, so on behalf of everyone at NALC happy and prosperous New Year! And in case you missed it just before Christmas, the NALC chairman, Cllr Sue Baxter, wrote a New Year open letter to all councillors about working together to build stronger communities. Sue's letter pays tribute to the work of councillors, explains how local... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:00 by Alison Robinson
Government announces new Town of the Year competition
9 Jan 2020 01:15 PM
Competition aims to celebrate towns' achievements, including in areas such as entrepreneurship, technology, community, enterprise, and integration.
- Communities Secretary announces new Town of the Year competition to celebrate thriving towns
- New government focus on delivering for towns, with designated contacts to help people in every town and an expert panel to advise towns to plan... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:36 by Alison Robinson
Half Day training on dealing with difficult customers - Wednesday 29th January 2020
Tetbury Town Council have confirmed they are holding two training sessions (one in the morning and one in the afternoon) on Dealing with Abusive Customers they will be run in Tetbury on Wednesday 29th January 2020. The cost is £45 per attendee. This is not an all-day event, but two separate sessions run back-to-back.
TTC are now taking bookings. Please confirm by 17th January to townclerk@tetbury.gov.uk... Read More »
Posted: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:28 by Alison Robinson
19/20 audit
We just want to remind councils that you should be starting to prepare for the 19/20 audit. We are running a course on 16 January at Highnam from 0930-1230hrs to help you prepare for audit, so if you wish to make a booking, go to the training calendar on our website and use the online booking form.
You also need to start thinking about arranging an internal audit for 19/20 and, as the IA looks at systems... Read More »
Posted: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 11:49 by Alison Robinson
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to everyone.
We are looking forward to working with you again in 2020.
Posted: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 09:38 by Alison Robinson
Merry Christmas - we are back on 2nd January 2020
Merry Christmas to all our members and partners that have supported GAPTC across 2019.
We look forward to another exciting and opportunistic year.
We return to the office on 2nd January.
Thanks
Posted: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 16:21 by Alison Robinson
GAPTC Executive Committee member elected on to one of NALC's governing committee
Mark Harris, GAPTC Executive Committee member, is our NALC representative and at the recent NALC National Assembly elections was voted on to the Larger Councils Committee.
Posted: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 16:13 by Anita Sach
Congratulations to Sarah Broadley for achieving CiLCA
We are delighted to report that Sarah from Kemble & Ewen PC has passed the CiLCA qualification, the 11th in Gloucestershire this year. Congratulations from the GAPTC team.
We have 10 candidates currently going through the mentoring sessions and we have another 4 who are close to completing the qualification. Do get in touch if you would like to join the growing number of professionally qualified... Read More »
Posted: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 12:23 by Anita Sach
