PARISH COUNCIL WEBSITES
A2A Advertising Ltd has designed many parish council websites in and around Cumbria, and all our parish council websites are fully editable, mobile friendly and compliant with CALC recommendations, for clerks we provide full training and have an online help guide and over the phone tech support, we can also provide .gov.uk email addresses which are free, and again have a help guide for email usage.
If your parish council is thinking of upgrading it's website and or moving to .gov.uk or wanting .gov.uk email addresses please could you get in touch with Andrew or Becci on 015395 64486
Pricing
A .gov.uk domain is registered for two years at a time and is £50+VAT (emails are free).
Hosting is £75+VAT p.a which includes tech support and help.
Design is from £350+VAT, this really depends on the amount of existing pdf's that will need copying.
Clients on the new .gov.uk
www.arkholmewithcawood-pc.gov.uk
www.claifeparishcouncil.org.uk
www.milnthorpeparishcouncil.org
www.crosthwaiteandlythpc.co.uk
The following is taken from JPAG 2024 and the pdf link is below
https://www.slcc.co.uk/site/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Practitioners-Guide-2024.pdf
JPAG recommends p56:-
5.210. All Parish, Town and Community Councils are eligible to use, and are advised to use, a .gov.uk domain for their websites and email communications. Your community, suppliers and partners will now reasonably expect a local council to have a .gov.uk domain name. Note that Parish meetings are exempt from the requirement to have a website. 5.211. To assist with compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), it is advised that clerks provide official .gov.uk email accounts to their councillors, which must only be used for official council business. 5.212. When choosing a domain name all councils must follow the rules set out by the Cabinet Office to choose a .gov.uk domain name, for example, ‘ourparishcouncil.gov.uk’ with email addresses linked to that domain.
5.213. Using a .gov.uk domain for your council website and email accounts gives Parish Councils the following advantages: 5.214. Increased professionalism and trust from members of your community, partners and suppliers because your email address and website domains are a trusted government brand. 5.215. Separation of your personal life from your professional life, ensuring members of your community, partners and suppliers understand what capacity you are emailing them in - whether a Councillor or Clerk. 5.216. Increased control for the Responsible Officer over email accounts and documentation when managing new joiners, leavers, sudden absences or Freedom of Information and Subject Access Requests. 5.217. Peace of mind that your .gov.uk Parish Council domain will never be sold to someone else if it is not renewed on time, which can happen with .co.uk, .org.uk and other commercial domains. 5.218. Additional security measures, as all .gov.uk domains are checked for any cyber vulnerabilities by the Cabinet Office and reported to the Responsible Owner, or your technical point of contact, so they can be fixed. 5.219. You can read more about the benefits of getting a .gov.uk domain on the GOV.UK website.