Small
A few thousand to about £25,000
Often exempt from limited assurance. A clerk of a handful of hours. Needs a site, a generic mailbox, a cashbook that can reconcile, and a diary that remembers the insurance month.
For English parish and town councils
The working year of a smaller council, in one place.
Clerk Assist is a council operating system — not a generic website builder and not a business accounts package. Statutory site, council-owned email, receipts and payments, diary, policies and the two asset registers sit in one UK-hosted login. Built by a clerk, for councils whose turnover is a few thousand up to about £200,000.
Everything below is included
There is no menu of extras for the core statutory job. Turn off what your council does not run. This is council software, written around AGAR, the Transparency Code and Assertion 10.
- Statutory website generated from the same record
- Council email on a domain the council owns
- Receipts and payments, bank reconciliation, budget v actual
- Guided path through the AGAR boxes
- Governance calendar across every council a clerk looks after
- Policy templates to PDF, with review dates on the diary
- Statutory asset register kept apart from the insurance schedule
- Hall bookings and allotments that can post into the cashbook
- Simple agendas and minutes
- Timesheet, tasks and notes written as if they might be requested
- Help that cites the Practitioners’ Guide, not folklore
- UK / EU hosting, honest cookies, accessibility designed in
Ten toolkits. One login.
A leaflet called a toolkit is one job. A smaller council has many: website, mail, cashbook, year-end, diary, policies, two asset lists, agendas, bookings, help that cites the rule. Clerk Assist is those jobs together — more like ten toolkits on one bench than a pamphlet in a cupboard.
Website
Email
Accounts
AGAR
Diary
Policies
Assets
Minutes
Bookings
Help
Three sizes. Same system.
Aimed at precepts from a few thousand to about £75,000, and usable up to around £200,000 turnover.
Mid
About £25,000 to £75,000
Still receipts and payments. A hall, perhaps allotments. The clerk may already look after more than one council. The calendar across those councils is the point.
Larger parish / small town
Up to about £200,000
Still the same statutory year. Accruals are not required in this band. Above this, look at a town suite.
Developed by a clerk
Made by someone who already does the job: precept, AGAR, the awkward handover, two councils with two insurance dates. Sized for a few hundred transactions a year, not for a principal authority.
Looking after the clerk is an employer duty. This does not exist so a council can cut the hours. It exists so the same hours are spent on judgement, not on six logins and a memory.
Council-specific throughout. Xero, Wix and a personal Gmail address can be made to limp. They were not written for Assertion 10, VAT126 or a statutory asset register that must never take an insurance value.
