About our Finances

All Local Council Financial Years start on 1st April and finish on 31st March. Our financial governance is based on recommended practises which are detailed in “Governance and Accountability 2010” and based on the Accounts and Audit Regulations 1996 as amended. There is other legislation which guides us in what we have to do. Our financial year follows a strict pattern. We must have our Accounts and Annual Return approved by the Town Council on or before the 30th June and the Annual Return must be received by the External Auditor by the second week in July. We prepare our budget in November.

In to our budget we build in general and earmarked reserves for our projects and functions. We also have an Internal Auditor and Internal Control Officer. At each meeting of our Council our members approve the payments for the previous month.

Useful documents:

Budget 25-26 – Revised Tax Base

Financial Risk Policy June 2026

Audit documents

Audit 25-26

Difference Between Box 7 and 8 June 2026

HTC End of Year Bank Reconciliation

HTC Explanation of Variances

HTC Internal Audit 25-26

HTC PWLB Statement

Public Rights Notice June 26

Signed AGAR Section1-3 June 26

Receipts 25-26

Payments 25-26

Audit 24-25

Conclusion of Audit

Section 3 AGAR

Public Rights Notice 2025

Signed AGAR 24-25

Receipts 24-25

Payments 24-25

Audit 23-24

Conclusion of Audit

Section 3 AGAR

Explanation of Variances 23-24

Internal Audit 23-24

Section 1 AGAR 23-24

Section 2 AGAR 23-24

Section 3 AGAR 23-24

Receipts 23-24

Payments 23-24

Audit 22-23

Section 3 Audit Completion

Conclusion of Audit

Signed AGAR 22-23 HTC

Public Rights Notice 22-23

Audit 21-22

Conclusion of Audit

31st March Bank Reconciliation

AGAR Section 1 Annual Statement

AGAR Section 2 Accounting Statement

Internal Audit

Variances Explained 22

Public Rights Notice Holt

Audit 20-21

AGAR 20-21 Internal Audit

AGAR 20-21 Section 1

AGAR 20-21 Section2

Notice of Public Rights 20-21

Explanation of Variances 20-21

Conclusion of Audit

Audit 2019-20

Conclusion of Audit

Accounting Statement 19-20

Annual Governance Statement

Auditor Report 19-20

Variances HTC 19-20

Public Rights Notice

Audit 2018-19

Conclusion of audit 18/19

AGAR Section 1 and Section 2 18/19

AGAR Section 3 18/9

Financial Statement

 

AUDIT INFORMATION 2017/8

Audit notice 2017/18

Audit 2017/8 papers

 

 

Our sources of funding

We have few sources of funding other than the precept. The precept is the amount of money which we ask North Norfolk District Council to collect on our behalf each year from our parishioners.

Our budgets details the precept and also give detail of our other sources of income – the cemetery, grants and donations we may have received, rents and car parks and other items.

Our expenditure includes staff salaries; administration (including insurance and audit); street lighting costs for repairs and electricity; costs relating to the running of our public toilets, open spaces, cemetery and donations which we may give out. Included in our budget there may also be costs to cover current projects which we are undertaking.