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Benhall & Sternfield Parish Council

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The Parish Council

Governance

Internal audit reprt 2025 6 (docx)
Introduction to Governance (docx)
The Transparency Code (docx)
Privacy Notice (pdf)
Data Protection and Information Management Policy (docx)
A Guide to the Data Protection Exemptions (docx)
Asset Register (docx)
SuffolkLocalCodeofConduct (pdf)
Internal Audit Report 2024 252 (docx)
AnnualReturnForm2 2024 25 FINAL B and S (pdf)
Internal Control Statement 2026 (docx)
Financial risk assessment 2025 6 (docx)
Standing Orders Reviewed approved and adopted 23 March 2026 (docx)

Finance

Precept request B and S (jpeg)
2026 7 Budget 2026 7 (docx)
2025 6 Agreed Budget 27.1.25 (pdf)
Precept Demand 2025 6 Benhall and Sternfield (pdf)
Financial Regulations Reviewed approved and adopted on 23 March 2026 (docx)
CIL report 31.3.26 (docx)

Policy & Procedures

Volunteer Policy (docx)
Risk Policy and Generic Risk Assessment 2026 7 (doc)
Policy for Memorials (docx)
Accessibility statement (docx)
Social Media and Electronic Communication Policy (pdf)

Bi-Monthly Meeting Minutes

March 2026 Minutes (docx)
January 2026 Minutes (docx)
November 2025 Minutes (docx)
September 2025 Minutes (docx)
July 2025 Minutes (docx)
Unconfirmed Minutes January 2025 (docx)

Annual & Ad Hoc Meetings

AGM 2026 (docx)
APM 2026 (docx)

Reports

Chairmans Report 2026 (docx)

Key Documents

AnnualReturnForm2 2024 25 (pdf)
AGAR 2025 (docx)
Risk Assessment GDPR 2023 (pdf)
Benhall Cemetery Policy Risk Assessment 2024 (Reviewed 15th November 2024) (pdf)

End-of-Year Accounts

The next meeting of the Parish Council will be held on  Monday 21 September 2026 at Benhall Club starting 7pm.  

Chair                                  Mrs Beverley Barclay
Vice Chair  
Councillors Mrs Sue Nicholson
  Dr Charlotte Fox
  Mr Paul Nicholson
  Mr Mark Stebbings
  Vacancies (3) 
  Mrs Coral Duncan
  Mrs Julie Parmenter
   
   

Parish Clerk/RFO

 

 

 

 

Mrs Katherine Abbott   
07436 434544
clerk.benhall@gmail.com
 
           

                                    

 

Email us at clerk.benhall@gmail.com

Anyone wishing to inspect a Councillor's declaration of interest may do so by clicking declarations of interest via the East Suffolk Council website and searching for Benhall and Sternfield and then the name of the Councillor. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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