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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.

Inequality on carer allowances highlighted this Carers Rights Day

On Carers Rights Day, Thursday 23^rd November, campaigners are urging the Government to end an inequality on carer allowances ahead of next May’s local elections.

We have been asked to alert you to the funding opportunities below by Dorset Council:

The latest round of Community and Culture Project grants is now open for applications.

The 2023 AGM for DAPTC was held on Saturday 18 November 2023 online via Zoom and featured two guest speakers in Kevin Moore (Programme Co-ordinator for the Armed Forces Covenant) and Jonathan Owen, CEO of the National Association of Local Councils.

Parish councils in Dorset are being invited to help Dorset Council influence future government policies on improving broadband in the county’s hardest to reach areas.

The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) has unveiled its annual analysis of local precepting authorities' council tax levels, including local (parish and town) councils for the fiscal year 2023/24.

Planning Together for a Nationally Important Landscape - 
How planning can enhance biodiversity, preserve our heritage and conserve dark skies on Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Utility Aid have some questions for parish and town coouncils - want to know more, then read on!