These pages relate to Financial aspects of the Parish Council. It is the Council's duty to use the money provided by the County Council in the most economic way possible. This is why when we are approached by the community to solve a problem it seems to take a long time for it to come to fruition as the budget is only looked at on an annual basis and funds cannot be "stockpiled" from previous years. Funding for work carried out by the Parish Council comes from you, the community, in the form of a payment (The Precept), paid to the Parish Council by the County Council from the Council Tax that you pay. So although it looks like money for projects in the Parish comes from thin air you are in a roundabout way paying for it. Please remember this when you put your ideas forward. There are other forms of funding which may be explored.