Annual return for the year ended 31 March 2016.

By law, every smaller authority in England with an annual turnover of £6.5 million or less must complete an Annual Return summarising its activities. This must be made available on the authority’s website on a set date, known as a “commencement of the period for the exercise of public rights”. 20th June 2016 is the date selected for Atworth Parish Council.

Below is a link to Atworth’s annual return for the year ended 31st March 2016

Annual Return to 31 March 2016

Notices relating to this are also available here:

Declaration of Status of Published Accounts

Notice of the Date of Commencement for the Period of Exercise of Public Rights

At the Parish Council Annual General Meeting held in the Village Hall on Wednesday 16th May 2018, Effie Gale-Sides was elected as Chair for the coming year and Richard Clark the Vice-Chair.

Effie Gale-Sides Declaration of Office for 2018

Richard Clark Declaration of Office 2018

The Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014and the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 require that the accounting records for the financial year to which the audit relates and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating to those records must be made available for inspection by any person interested, during a period of 30 working days set by the smaller authority and including the first 10 working days of July.

Please find below a link to the accounting records for Atworth Parish Council for the year ending March 2018

APC Annual Governance notice 2018 pre PKFL

The period referred to above starts with the day on which the period for the exercise of public rights is treated as having been commenced i.e. the day following the day on which all of the obligations below have been fulfilled.

The responsible financial officer for a relevant authority must, on behalf of that authority, publish (which must include publication on the authority’s website):

(a) the Accounting Statements (i.e. Section 2 of either Part 2 or 3, whichever is relevant, of the Annual Governance & Accountability Return(AGAR)), accompanied by:

(i) a declaration, signed by that officer to the effect that the status of the Accounting Statements are unaudited and that the Accounting Statements as published may be subject to change;

(ii) the Annual Governance Statement (i.e. Section 1 of either Part 2 or Part 3, whichever is relevant, of the AGAR); and

(b) a statement that sets out—

(i) the period for the exercise of public rights;

(ii) details of the manner in which notice should be given of an intention to inspect the accounting records and other documents;

(iii) the name and address of the local auditor;

(iv) the provisions contained in section 26 (inspection of documents etc.) and section 27 (right to make objections at audit) of the Act, as they have effect in relation to the authority in question;