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Information for member councils to share in their communities to protect your child against measles.

DAPTC have helped pull together with the expertise of Pageant Productions a short series of videos for social media and members' websites. These are the first four with another to follow nearer the election.

NALC Chair, Cllr. Keith Stevens has written an open letter to all parish and town councils at the start of 2024.

Bruno Peek CVO OBE OPR provides an update for all parish and town councils across Dorset in advance of the D-Day events in June 2024.

Dr Andrea Pellegram and Lee Searles provide an update and briefing for parish and town councils across Dorset.

DAPTC members can use the generic toolkit and have it updated with this own logo or name ahead of issuing it to councillors wishing to re-stand or potential new candidates.

Parish and town councils are invited to the forum scheduled for 8 February 2024 at The George Albert Hotel, nr Evershot DT2 9PW

We were contacted this week by Simon Sansome, founder of Snowball Community and were immediately struck by how useful the app would be for our members and those businesses and venues in their communities.

As agreed in the last few years, Dorset Council's Finance Team have supplied parish and town councils with the latest tax base data and a really useful precept calculator where you can use the tax base data to understand how that will shape your revenue in the coming financial year.

Dorset Council have issued parish and town councils with important contact information to share in their communities so that the right organisations can be alerted to issues in local areas.

News Item from Dorset Council: Following Cabinet endorsement at its December meeting, the Dorset Council UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Rural England Prosperity Fund grants for both community groups and organisations, together with local business grants, will launch on Tuesday 12 December 2023.

NHS Dorset are looking for community leaders to help create their winter messaging campaign. This may be yourselves, your colleagues, or people you know within your networks and contacts. Please let those fantastic people you know about this campaign so they can help inspire Dorset communities to think about the little things that can make a big difference this winter by way of a short quote or possible short video clip.