Financial Information

The Parish Council finances its activities from part of the council tax paid by households in the parish. Waddesdon Parish Council has set its precept (the amount of money it raises from council tax payers) for the current financial year (April 2022 to March 2023) at £110,188. This equates to a £3.70 rise per week for a Band D property. For April 2023 – March 2024 the precept has been set at £115,500 (Band D equivalent to £150.62pa).

The 2023-2024 draft budget can be seen here

All spend data has been reviewed internally prior to publication.

The accounts for 2022/23 have been internally audited and have been sent to PKF Littlejohn for external auditing.

The accounting statements are as yet unaudited.

Section 1 – Annual Governance Statement 2022/23

Section 2 – Accounting Statements 2022/23

Internal Audit Report 2022/23

Notice of Public Rights 2022/23

The accounts for 2021/22 have now been audited.

Section 1 – Annual Governance Statement

Section 2 – Accounting Statements

Internal Audit Report

Section 3 – External Auditor’s Report

Notice of Public Rights

Notice of conclusion of audit

The accounts for 2020/21 are as follows:

Section 1 – Annual Governance Statement

Section 2 – Accounting Statements

Internal Audit Report

Notice of Public Rights

Notice of conclusion of audit

The accounts for 2019/20 are as follows:

Section 1 – Annual Governance Statement

Section 2 – Accounting Statements

Internal audit report 2019-20

External Auditor’s report

Notice of public rights

Notice of conclusion of audit

The accounts for 2018/19 are as follows:

AGAR Section 1 & Section 2

Internal Audit Report

Public Rights Notice

Notice of conclusion of audit

Section 3 – External auditor report & certificate

The Clerk, the senior and paid officer (employee) of the Parish Council, is paid according to the scales agreed between the National Association of Local Councils and the Society of Local Council Clerks. The Parish Council has agreed that the Clerk should be paid on Scale LC2, which is the scale appropriate to a large village or small town.

Asset Register

A full list of the current assets of the Parish Council can be seen h ere. This is updated annually.

Please note the following:

For data protection reasons, where payments have been made to individuals, the names have been replaced with the words ‘Redacted Personal Data’.
This data has been prepared in accordance with the latest guidance from the Local Government Association.

These payments are shown net of VAT (the true cost to the council).