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Demonstrating the positive impact of building dementia-friendly communities and providing local councils with the tools to help them develop their own.

• Dementia Friendly Communities (PDF, 3.4 Mb)

Section 137 Expenditure Limit for 2022-23

• Section 137 Expenditure Limit for 2022-23 (PDF, 76 Kb)

Funding & grants available for local communities and councils

• Funding & Grants Bulletin November 2021 (PDF, 1.3 Mb)

This report aims to paint an accurate picture of how climate change is being tackled by local (parish, town and community) councils and identify the challenges they face. In doing so, NALC can better understand how to support local councils in creating more sustainable communities.

• What can local councils do on climate change? (PDF, 5.2 Mb)

Allotments provide an excellent opportunity to grow your own fruit and vegetables, meet new people and get plenty of fresh air and exercise. 'Allotments: a plotholder's guide' is for anyone who rents or is thinking of renting an allotment plot. It outlines the basics you need to know in order to enjoy all the opportunities and benefits that allotment gardening offers.

• Allotments, A Plotholder's Guide (PDF, 742 Kb)

If the council of any borough, urban district or parish are of opinion that there is a demand for allotments in the borough, urban district or parish, the council shall provide a sufficient number of allotments, and shall let such allotments to persons resident in the borough, district or parish and desiring to take the same.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/36/part/II/crossheading/provision-of-allotments/enacted

• The Duty on Parish and Town Councils to Consider the Provision of Allotments (PDF, 146 Kb)

The preface to the second edition of the good practice guide for the management of allotments, Growing in the community (to be referred to hereafter as the guide), highlights the recent revival of interest in 'growing your own'. The consequent increase in the demand for allotments is reflected in lower vacancy rates and lengthening waiting lists across the UK. Over the two years since the publication of the guide, this trend has intensified. Estimates of waiting lists exceeding 100,000 are widely reported, and few areas have vacant plots. Local authorities have come under increasing pressure to provide new sites, and to accommodate alternative food growing projects where allotments are scarce.

• A Place to Grow (PDF, 1.3 Mb)

Survival rates for cardiac arrests improve significantly when defibrillation can be administered within 5 minutes.

Abbots Langley Parish Council, having researched and purchased 3 cPads, have kindly shared their findings in this paper to help inform other Councils in Hertfordshire considering installing them.

• Community Public Access Defibrillators (cPads) (PDF, 469 Kb)

Purchasing or supporting purchase of a community defibrillator, some notes for Councils to consider, courtesy of Herts County Council.

• Defibrillators in the Community – Some Suggested Guidelines (PDF, 265 Kb)

This presentation sets out the requirements and provides practical help and information.

• Website Content Accessibility Guidelines (PDF, 437 Kb)

Protocol on marking the death of a senior national figure.

• Protocol on marking the death of a senior national figure; images usage guidelines (PDF, 398 Kb)