The Parish’s financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
The accounts are prepared by the Responsible Financial Officer (the Clerk) and are then subject to internal audit. Our current Internal Auditor is Mr John Plumb. This parish is a smaller authority where the gross income/gross expenditure does not exceed £25,000 and is therefore entitled to certify itself as exempt from a limited assurance review.
The Parish Council is required to advertise the audit and display a notice of conclusion of audit. These notices are displayed here and on the Parish Council Noticeboard.
If you would like to know more about the Council’s accounts and your rights, you can read the legislation regarding the Period of the Exercise of Public Rights and each year the Notice of Public Rights and Publication of Annual Governance & Accountability Return (exempt authority) is published below (this explains your rights and how and when you can view the accounts information).
The Parish Council’s Financial Regulations are available to view here: Financial Regulations (May-18).
Posts about LW&GC PC financial matters are available here:
Annual Audit Return 2022/23
The Annual Audit Return for the Financial Year Ended 31 March 2023 is available to view here:
Payments over £100 (2022/23)
In line with the Code of Transparency for Smaller Councils, we are required to publish a list of all payments for the year over the sum of £100, exclusive of VAT.
Annual Audit Return 2021/22
The Annual Audit Return for the Financial Year Ended 31 March 2022 is available to view here:
Payments over £100 (2021/22)
In line with the Code of Transparency for Smaller Councils, we are required to publish a list of all payments for the year over the sum of £100, exclusive of VAT.
Budget 2022/23
The Budget for 2022/23 was approved and adopted at the Parish Council meeting on 4 January 2022 and can be viewed here:
Annual Audit Return 2020/21
The Annual Audit Return for the Financial Year Ended 31 March 2021 is available to view here:
Notice of conclusion of audit is available to view here:
Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2021 (Notice of Commencement of Audit)
NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION OF ANNUAL GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN (EXEMPT AUTHORITY)
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021
Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 25, 26 and 27
The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)
NOTICE
| 1. | Date of announcement 18 June 2021 |
| 2. | Each year the smaller authority prepares an Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR). The AGAR has been published with this notice. It will not be reviewed by the appointed auditor, since the smaller authority has certified itself as exempt from the appointed auditor’s review. Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the AGAR, the accounting records for the financial year to which it 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. For the year ended 31 March 2021, these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to: Helen Eldridge, Clerk to the Parish Council t: 01926 853841 e: clerk@leekwootton.org.uk commencing on Thursday, 1 July 2021 and ending on Wednesday, 11 August 2021 |
| 3. | Local government electors and their representatives also have: The opportunity to question the appointed auditor about the accounting records; and The right to make an objection which concerns a matter in respect of which the appointed auditor could either make a public interest report or apply to the court for a declaration that an item of account is unlawful. Written notice of an objection must first be given to the auditor and a copy sent to the smaller authority. The appointed auditor can be contacted at the address in paragraph 4 below for this purpose between the above dates only. |
| 4. | The smaller authority’s AGAR is only subject to review by the appointed auditor if questions or objections raised under the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 lead to the involvement of the auditor. The appointed auditor is: PKF Littlejohn LLP (Ref: SBA Team) 15 Westferry Circus Canary Wharf London E14 4HD (sba@pkf-l.com) |
| 5. | This announcement is made by Helen Eldridge, Clerk to the Parish Council |
For further information, please see the full Notice of the Period of Exercise of Public Rights: