Welcome

To Woughton Community Council

Woughton Community Council is the council closest to the residents in the parish of Woughton. The Community Council is here to support residents by representing their views on issues affecting them. We provide environmental and community facilities. On our website you will find information about Woughton Community Council’s services, as well as news about upcoming events and projects.

You can also get information at our office, based in the Local Centre on Coffee Hall. We are open each weekday between 9am – 5 pm (except Friday, when we close at 4pm and Wednesday, when we close at 1pm for staff training). More details on our ‘Contact Us’ page.

Activity Ideas

NEW page for all things V.E. Day. Bunting, recipes, history, quizzes, Morse Code – loads of things to see and do. You can see them all HERE

And don’t forget the big Flash Mob Distance Dance!

We have created a new page of activities to keep you all busy over the next few weeks – crafts, food, games and more! Click here for ALL the activities (and thanks to everyone who helped collect them all!)

On Thursday 23rd April, we updated with information about reading, links to book sites and to MK Libraries online service. Check them out HERE

On Wednesday 22nd April 2020, we updated the page with some information for children & young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. For some useful information click HERE and for some sensory play activities, click HERE

On Tuesday 21st April, we updated with some educational resources – link to sites and some ideas of how you can carry on learning. Click HERE for those links.

Coronavirus

For information about Covid-19 (known as coronavirus) and the steps that Woughton Community Council are taking, click HERE

Following advice from Central Government and in line with safety precautions, as from today (17th March 2020) the following actions have been taken to protect local residents and staff and help reduce the impact of the virus:

• Our buildings (Hub, No 95, all community centres) will close with immediate effect. 
• All public facing services (advice, wellbeing, youth, Community Fridge, Community Café) will stop operating any public access sessions from today. Services will remain accessible via email, phone and Skype, where suitable.
• All meetings with external partners will be postponed or will take place online

Landscaping will no longer be working, except for emergencies, in line with the guidance.

This is clearly a difficult time and these decisions have not been taken lightly. We have to protect our staff, our councillors, our residents and those we come into contact with. Whilst many of us don’t fall within the ’high risk’ categories, many of us do and the need to protect everyone is paramount.

For further information about sources of support, click HERE

And for details of resources that might be useful during this period, click HERE

We have also published resources that can help talk about the situation, click HERE

*NEW* Gazette (and previous copies!)

You can check out the Spring Edition of the Gazette, which includes information about the current Coronavirus support and plans for the coming year.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WILL BE DELIVERED TO HOMES ACROSS THE PARISH IN EARLY APRIL. WE DECIDED THAT EVERYONE NEEDED TO KNOW HOW TO ACCESS SUPPORT AT THIS DIFFICULT TIME AND HAVE WORKED WITH OUR DISTRIBUTORS TO ENSURE THIS IS DONE SAFELY – not everyone is online.

You can also still look at previous editions of ‘My Woughton Gazette’, going back to 2015 (and a few from even earlier).

To try and get YOUR views on parking and traffic across the parish, we have opened a feedback survey. We aim to use the feedback to encourage better planning, parking, enforcement and (hopefully) some new parking spaces.

You can give us your views by visiting:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2J8LQ9C or clicking HERE

Councillor Surgeries

You can find details of our Ward Councillor surgeries by clicking HERE

Click Here to see our current vacancies

Annual Returns

As part of our governance and to make sure that we are compliant with all the laws and rules around local councils, each year we provide an ‘Annual Governance and Accountability Return’ (sometimes known as an AGAR) to external auditors. Local electors have a right to see this return and, if requested, to see our accounts, etc..

You can find our annual returns for the past year HERE

If you have any questions or queries, please don’t hesitate to contact us