Financial Information

The Parish Council is a Government body and as such our funding is allocated by Staffordshire Moorlands District Council (SMDC) and is included in their Council Tax bills – this funding is referred to as the Annual Precept.

Each January we hold a meeting to discuss the income and expenditure needs required to run the Parish Council for the next financial year. Once the amount required has been decided by the Parish Council it is submitted to SMDC who in turn include the amount when calculating the local Council Tax.  We receive this Precept payment in two instalments March and September.

Parish Councils are also eligible to seek UK grants and funding and EU money as is appropriate.

The Precept money is used to fund the spending of the Parish Council and is used for employee salaries, on local amenities and general administration costs without having to seek permission from any other authority.

Parish Councillors are all volunteers and receive no remuneration for their time or service. The Parish Council employs one person, the Parish Clerk.

 By law any interested person has the right to inspect the parish councils accounts.  If you are entitled and registered to vote in local council elections, then you also have the right to ask the appointed auditor questions about the council’s accounts or object to an item of account within them.

The auditor does not have to answer questions about the council’s policies, finances, procedures or anything else not related to the accounts.  Your question must be about the accounts for the financial year just ended.  The auditor does not have to say whether they think something the council has done, or an item in its accounts, is lawful or reasonable.

Precept Statement

Financial Year 2024-25 (click to view)

Financial Year 2023-24 (click to view)

Financial Year 2022-23 (click to view)

Accounts and Information for the 2022 / 2023 Financial Year

Accounts and Information for the 2021 / 2022 Financial Year

Accounts and Information for the 2020 / 2021 Financial Year

Accounts and Information for the 2019 / 2020 Financial Year

Accounts and Information for the 2018 / 2019 Financial Year

Accounts and Information for the 2017 / 2018 Financial Year

Accounts and Information for the 2016 / 2017 Financial Year

Accounts and Information for the 2015 / 2016 Financial Year

Accounts and Information for the 2014 / 2015 Financial Year

Accounts and Information for the 2013 / 2014 Financial Year

Parish Council Assets

The Parish Council do not own or manage any land in Dilhorne.

We however own the Phone Kiosk near to the Boundary cross road, which we adopted in 2008 from BT for the vast sum of £1.00. This was refurbished with a new door and coat of paint in 2015. It now houses a notice board which is used to display parish council notices. There are two other notice boards in the village, one on the corner of School Close and the other at the top of the High Street. These are also the property of the Parish Council.

The Parish Council also own the wooden bus shelter on The Common and a Dopler Speed Gun, used by the Community Speed Watch Group. This, we purchased thanks to a grant we received from the then County Councillor, William Day. In 2016 we purchased a lifesaving Cardiac Defibrillator for the village which is located on the rear wall of the Royal Oak public house.

In October 2017 a flagpole and two flags – Union Flag and St George – was purchased by the Parish Council.  This has been place by the entrance to the Recreation Ground in New Road, with the permission of the Recreation Centre Trustees.  This we purchased thanks to grants received from both our District Councillor, Paul Roberts and our County Councillor, Ross Ward.