Analysis: The SWG in Parish Council minutes and parish magazine

Chilbolton Parish Council (CPC) has published its responses to questions at the meeting on 5 Dec 2024 in the Village Hall. One request was for publication of Strategic Working Group agendas and minutes.

Their answer to the request for minutes in their Questions and Answers document is:

the CPC website has recorded all the relevant activities undertaken by SWG over a number of years, and these have been regularly detailed in the monthly (or so) SWG reports to the PC, the annual Parish Assembly and the Community Magazine.

And on the Strategic Working Group webpage they add:

Reporting, transparency and accountability in the governance process:— The Strategy Working Group regularly reports to the Parish Council, providing updates on its activities, progress towards objectives, and any recommendations. These reports can be found within the Parish Council minutes.

These minutes exist in many different documents on the CPC website, but as an aide-memoire for those in the Village who do not avidly read the CPC minutes every month we have created every reference to SWG in the minutes on a single page, and where possible, links to other referenced documents.

We have also done the same thing for the parish magazine - every SWG Report in the parish magazine on a single page.

And as of 2 Mar 2025, chilbolton.news has put together a timeline of its activities, collated from SWG minutes, their reports to CPC and what was announced in the Parish Magazine. It traces its journey from 2022 through to the village meeting on 5 Dec 2025.