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Dear Colleagues There is an audible sigh in our sector as local councils either take a recess from meetings or at least wind them down for August.  Whilst many will choose this time to be away with family or to simply take a break, others of will be climbing into those housekeeping jobs which languish […]

Dear Colleagues I trust that this email will languish in your mailboxes until Monday and that you are making the most of the sunny snap!  I’m anxious to finish off my workload on my non-working day, so that I too can escape and make the most of a rare and lovely day! This week has

You may be forgiven for thinking you’ve stepped into Autumn and I hear reports of even our most resilient of colleagues being drawn back to the central heating controls and here we are in mid July.  Still, schools are breaking up, suitcases are being hauled out of lofts and this weekend you will be unable

Dear Colleagues I cannot fail to acknowledge the big event which took place this week.  The General Election virtually silenced our email inbox which enabled me to crack on with a long list of administrative tasks for the Association.  Today we wake up to the establishing of a new government with fresh ambition and energy

Dear Colleagues It has been a busy week at BMKALC with four training courses, Councillor’s essentials session 2 and 3, Clerks Induction and CiLCA Unit 2 for Group 1.  You should all have been very busy finalising your AGAR’s.  The deadline is the end of June for submission and remember if you are not required

Well campers it might be time to dust off the deckchairs as I believe a settled spell of better weather is heading our way next week.  Goodness knows we would all welcome it. I was on annual leave last week, and been frantic all this week so if you have felt a little neglected, that’s

Dear Colleagues Happy Bank Holiday! (…and it may even be dry, probably jinxed it now, certainly doesn’t look very dray at the moment!) This week, Youth Councillors Awards, Cllr Paul Harvey and I were delighted to attend MKCC to present Certificates to the Youth Council representatives who worked with us on our Conference last year.   Community

Dear Colleagues Just don’t look out the window, it’s grey, it’s wet and I’ve had to turn the heating back on!  On the other hand the weather has offered no distraction from what has been a very busy week! As you might reasonably expect we have been a hive of activity following the BC Street

Dear Colleagues You may not have noticed but Lorraine has been extremely industrious and, amongst some very impressive juggling and balancing, has also been reviewing and polishing areas of our website.  This is just the front end of the engine that feeds me with details about our courses and their uptake and how we use

Dear Colleagues Welcome to the end of the soggiest financial year in a while apparently,  I hope all is going well as you gather all your financial queries into one place and receive the right answers to them all.   The annual subscription invoices for BMKALC and NALC’s affiliation fees have now been sent out.  Please