How To Choose The Best Website For A Parish Council
Parish Council Website Considerations
It can be quite challenging for a Parish Council to know what features and functions a compliant website should include with ever changing criteria and regulations.
This is where we can help having created many Parish Council Websites navigating you through GDPR, the Transparency Code and Accessibility Regulations.
Inviting tenders from website agencies often results in inflated prices. This is because it can be time consuming for the agency to work through the requirements of the tender, and they factor this into the cost including the many hours to create a website from the ground up.
In contrast, we’ve streamlined our processes and offer a fully managed service. Therefore, we are able to deliver a fully fledged Parish Council Website with a fast turnaround, at a lower cost and completely stress-free for the officer and clerk as we take care of everything for you.
Cost-Effective Parish Council Websites
Our websites are specifically designed for Parish Councils, being fully compliant and include every feature that a Parish Council may need. Our websites are based on our own proprietary platform, providing a level of security, flexibility, simplicity and speed that other’s cannot match.
Easily add Councillor details, community and council news, events, minutes, agendas and reports for visitors to download. We’ve even included an in-page accessibility checking feature when writing your pages to ensure they remain fully compliant as your website grows.
With our fully compliant website solution that includes all necessary features, the need for a tender process is removed resulting a website at a fraction of the cost of a bespoke site and with a faster turnaround.
Simple to Manage
Our websites are very intuitive, with a low-learning curve and simple to manage. If you can use a word processing software like Ms Word, you can easily edit the content in your website. We offer ongoing support and can also create short videos to guide you if needed. Our testimonials speak volumes of our websites quality and ease of use.
Easily Comply With The Transparency Code, GDPR & WCAG Accessibility Regulations
The transparency code requires information to be published on a publically accessible free of charge website which includes all items of expenditure above £100, annual accounts, governance statements, internal audit report, list of Councillor or member responsibilities and the details of public land and building assets. In addition, Minutes, agendas and meeting papers of formal meetings.
With our solution, you can easily upload all statutory such as above and any file type from PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, images and more.
Our websites are fully WCAG and GDPR compliant which include lifetime SSL security certificates and cookie consent features. We are always happy to offer advice if needed.
Hosted & Maintained in the UK
Every website we create is securely hosted in the UK on fast, reliable servers. This also includes speed optimisations worldwide on auto-scaling infrastructure similar to Google. We include maintenance for every website which means regular security checks, updates and backups for total peace of mind.
The Best Parish Council Website solution
We’ve created a hassle free, fully managed website solution that is affordable, feature packed, easy to use and fully compliant for clerks and officers.
Benefits include:
- Fully compliant with GDPR, the Transparency Code and Accessibility Regulations WCAG 2.1
- A fraction of the price of a custom website
- Extremely easy to manage website
- Modern design that is fully responsive so looks great on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
- Feature packaged – includes document upload of minutes, agendas and reports.
- Easily add Councillors details and events.
- No tender process needed.
- A one stop option including hosting, support & Training