Training & Events

As part of your membership, your Council has access to a variety of training courses. WSALC CEO, Trevor Leggo, offers new/refresher councillor training (which includes chair training) at no additional cost. These currently take place on Zoom throughout the year. If your Council would like face to face training then this can also be arranged; please contact Emily for further details.    

Also included within your membership, we can help your Council with creating a business plan.  You will have access to the CEO in person on two evenings to assist with preparation and follow up. Please contact Emily for more details.

CLERK NETWORKING EVENT 2025

 We are looking forward to seeing some more real-life faces rather than over Zoom in the new year! Join us for a morning of networking where we hope to be joined by a speaker or two and where you can share ideas, raise any concerns, and ask questions to CEO Trevor Leggo. Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided. We hope lots of you will join us.  Further details to be shared in due course but please save the date in your diary! 

West Sussex – DATE TBC 

For available training during the first quarter of 2025, please see below:

JANUARY 2025

15th– The Role of Internal Audit (10am)

15th– Introduction to Planning (6.30pm)

16thIntroduction to VAT (10am) 

16th – Clerks Forum (10am) FREE

20th - Councillor/Chair Training (7pm) FREE

21st – Procurement Act 2023 (10am)

22nd – Internal Controls (10am)  

22nd – New Clerks Training (10am) 

22nd – Making Effective Planning Representations (6.30pm) 

23rd – Finance for Councillors (10am)

23rd – Chairs Forum (7pm) FREE

28th – New Clerks’ Finance (10am, plus a second course FREE) 

30th – Finance for Councillors (6.30pm) 

Please see Breakthrough Communications website for all their training dates for January. 

To book any finance training, click here: https://bookwhen.com/parkinson#focus=ev-s6qf-20220308100000

FEBRUARY 2025

4th – VAT Partial Exemption (10am)

4th – Banking for Local Councils (10am) 

5th – Introduction to Planning (6.30pm) 

6th – Updates in Planning (6.30pm) 

11th – VAT for registered councils (10am)

11th – Councillor/Chair Training (7pm) FREE

13th – Year End & Audit – Councils over £25,000 (10am)

18th – Introduction to VAT (10am)

19th – Internal Controls (10am)

24th – Local Councils Insurance: Risk & Responsibility (10am)

25th – Year End & Audit – Councils over £25,000 (10am) 

27th – Procurement Act 2023 (10am) 

Please see Breakthrough Communications website for all their training dates for February. 

To book any finance training click here: https://bookwhen.com/parkinson#focus=ev-s6qf-20220308100000

MARCH 2025

3rd – Introduction to Planning (6.30pm) 

4th – Finance for Councillors (10am)

5th – The Role of Internal Audit (10am)

6th – Year-end & Transparency – Councils under £25,000 (10am)

6th – Councillor/Chair Training (7pm) FREE

10th – Updates in Planning (6.30pm) 

11th – Year End & Audit – Councils over £25,000 (10am)

11th – Making Effective Planning Representations (6.30pm) 

13th – Income & Expenditure accounts (for larger councils) (10am)

18th – Year-end & Transparency – Councils over £25,000 (10am) 

18th – Clerks Forum (10am) FREE

18th – Chairs Forum (7pm) FREE

20th – Year End & Audit – Councils over £25,000 (10am) 

25th – New Clerks Training (10am) 

25th – Income & Expenditure accounts (for larger councils) (10am)

26th – New Clerks’ Finance (plus a FREE second course) (10am)

27th – Introduction to VAT (10am)

27th – Councillor/Chair Training (7pm) FREE

As well as the above, you can also book onto training sessions with Breakthrough Communications who deliver all aspects of council communications, community engagement and GDPR/FOI compliance. Please see their website for further details. 

To book any finance training, click here: https://bookwhen.com/parkinson#focus=ev-s6qf-20220308100000

Please see the following link for further training: 

BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATIONS - Data Protection, GDPR, Social Media, Communications