Golden days (and services) at Alcester
ALCESTER Town Council has received the prestigious Quality Gold Award as part of the Local Council Award Scheme.
This achievement recognises that the council has good practice in governance, community engagement and council improvement. It also confirms the town council goes above and beyond its legal obligations in leading the community and continually seeks opportunities to improve and develop even further.
Out of the 9,000 town and parish councils in England, there are only 53 that have been awarded this status and the council is very proud of this achievement.
The Local Council Award Scheme is a peer assessed programme designed to both provide the tools and encouragement to councils at the beginning of their improvement journeys as well as promoting and recognising councils that are at the cutting edge of the sector.
Alcester Town Council’s Mayor, Cllr Vaughan Blake, announced news of the award at the annual parish meeting in April and said: “We are very honoured to receive this accolade and it reflects the huge effort and hard work put in by councillors, the town clerk and her team.”
The council is constantly reviewing ways in which it can keep on improving its offer to the local community and welcomes input from local people and partners on this.
Alcester Town Council is at the front line of the Government’s localism agenda and are doing as much as it can to deliver services while being efficient and cost-effective.
Currently the council provides a range of services including maintenance of 4 play areas, recreational open spaces and a cemetery, the Eric Payne Community Centre, management of over 130 allotments at 4 sites, Health & Wellbeing projects and activities, issuing grants to local organisations and responding to planning applications.