Overview
Discover how to hold your council meetings by webinar with this free training session.
Date
Pre-recorded – view anytime, anywhere! Just click the video on the left to play.
Price
FREE
Course outline
Following the regulations which enable town and parish councils to conduct ‘virtual meetings’, the SLCC has launched free webinar training for members and non-members on how to hold council meetings by webinar.
The pre-recorded 60 minute session is presented by Andrew Maliphant.
Webinar Material
Click here to view the presentation slides.
Click here to view the Model Agenda for Online Council Meetings – SLCC Members only
Click here to view the Guidance for Holding Meetings Online – SLCC Members only
Key points that will be covered include:
- How to hold and manage virtual meetings to ensure the standard meeting agenda items are covered
- How to ensure the Chairman controls the meeting in terms of inviting members to speak and taking votes on decisions
- How to incorporate an observation of standing orders
- How to prep for the meeting including preparing an online presentation
- How to select the correct software for your virtual meeting
About the Trainer
Andrew has been the part-time parish clerk at Longhope, Gloucestershire since September 2012, and also carries out consultancy work under the banner of The Community Works. He has worked in the public, private and voluntary sectors, and has over twenty-five years’ experience in regeneration programme and project management, in both rural and urban areas. He has successfully led teams in community-based regeneration in market towns, city centre and the urban fringe, in all of which he developed and delivered partnership projects with community groups and outside organisations.
Andrew describes what he does as “Helping People to Help Themselves”, with particular reference to improving the place where they live or work. Since publishing his Local Regeneration Handbook (Sage Publications October 2017 – available from the SLCC bookshop) Andrew has continued to share and develop good practice through networking, published articles and training courses. His people skills and varied work experience make him very comfortable working with new groups and individuals, and he is very happy to talk to any parish, town or community council – or other local group – about their plans and concerns for the future.
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The SLCC is always keen to respond to members’ needs for training. If you would like to register an interest in having a particular course delivered via webinar or in your region, please click here to complete an ‘expression of interest’.
