As required by our External Auditor, the summary of the parish council’s Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) for the previous financial year 2024/2025 is available for download (as a PDF) here. The official notice of public rights and publication can be seen below (as an embedded PDF) or downloadable (as a PDF) here. The parish council has been to an internal audit too, who looks at processes, checks to ensure things run smoothly and within policies and guidelines.
Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the accounting records for the financial year to which the audit relates and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating to those records must be made available for inspection by any person interested. For the year ended 31 March 2025, these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to:
Ian Hanstead, Parish Clerk and Responsible Finance Officer,
Email: Clerk@valeofallen-pc.gov.uk
c/o The Willows, Gussage St Michael, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 5HX
Tel: 01258 840634
commencing on Monday 2 June 2025
and ending on Friday 11 July 2025
Local government electors and their representatives also have:
- The opportunity to question the appointed auditor about the accounting records; and
- The right to make an objection which concerns a matter in respect of which the appointed auditor could either make a public interest report or apply to the court for a declaration that an item of account is unlawful. Written notice of an objection must first be given to the auditor and a copy sent to the smaller authority.
The appointed auditor can be contacted at the address below for this purpose between the above dates only.
This AGAR is subject to review by the appointed auditor under the provisions of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 and the NAO’s Code of Audit Practice 2015. The appointed auditor is:
BDO LLP
Arcadia House
Maritime Walk
Ocean Village
Southampton
SO14 3TL
councilaudits@bdo.co.uk