For English councils

The governance platform
councils run on.

One platform for meetings, councillors, documents, and your public website. Configured once. After that, every meeting takes about five minutes to set up.

Start your council See the platform
UK-hosted GDPR-clean WCAG 2.1 AA Transparency Code
Replaces six things you're paying for today

One bill. One phone number. One person who knows your council.

Today's council runs on a patchwork of websites, drives, and group chats. Council Works consolidates them.

Website provider
Templated CMS
IT support contract
Hourly callouts
Council email
Personal accounts
Shared drive
Folder sprawl
Group chat
Side-channel decisions
Printed packs
Print + postage
Council Works
All of it. One platform. One annual bill.
What you get

Six pieces, designed to work as one.

No integrations to wire up. No second login. No CSV roundtrips.

Meetings module

Pick the meeting type. The pack PDF assembles itself from your standing agenda, attendees, and uploaded papers. The public notice publishes automatically at the three clear days requirement.

Live mode for the night itself

Councillor portal

Magic-link sign-in, no passwords to lose. One home screen with the next meeting, pre-reads, action items, and anything waiting on a signature. Apologies submitted in advance with one click.

Mobile-first

Document library

Versioning, retention tags, and the Transparency Code categories already configured. Upload a document once and it lands in the right place on your public site, instantly.

Transparency Code mapped

Approvals for anything

Any decision that needs a sign-off, routed the right way: cheques, licences, planning responses, grant awards, policy adoptions, FOI replies, minutes. Define the rule once ("2 of 3 signatories", "Chair only", whatever your standing orders say) and the platform chases councillors until it's signed.

We chase the signatures, not you

Public website

WCAG 2.1 AA accessible. Built-in pages for everything you're legally required to publish. Custom domain, your colours, your logo. Page editing where it makes sense, structure where it matters.

.gov.uk domain supported

Real human support

UK business hours, by chat, email, and phone. One person who knows your council. Response times published and tracked. No ticketing system to learn.

By name, not by ticket
Pricing

One annual bill. No surprises.

We tell you 60 days before renewal what next year will cost. No per-seat pricing. Adding councillors never raises your bill.

Core platform
£300–900 /year

Per council, depending on size and add-ons. Annual billing, quarterly available.

  • Everything in the platform, no per-seat fees
  • Unlimited councillors and meetings
  • Custom .gov.uk domain and branding
  • UK business-hours support
  • One-off onboarding £300–500 inc. content migration
Start your council
Pilot programme
For West Sussex & surrounding
50% off year one

In exchange for ongoing feedback. Five to eight pilot councils, all live by autumn 2026.

  • Direct line to the people building it
  • Content migration from your current site included
  • DNS cutover and 60-minute training included
  • Locked-in pilot pricing for years 2 and 3
Apply to the pilot
Need only part of the platform?
Plenty of councils start with just the public site, just the meetings module, or just approvals. Tell us what you'd actually use and we'll quote bespoke pricing. No "platform fee" tucked into the small print.
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About

Built by a councillor, for the clerk next to him.

For two years I sat through monthly council meetings, watching our clerk do everything: prep the agenda, photocopy the packs, fix the printer, hold an ageing website together, and chase us through her inbox for signatures we'd already promised. By day, I spent fifteen years building fintech and compliance software for institutions that wouldn't dream of running this way. Our clerk deserves better. Every clerk does. So we built Council Works.

From the founder
A serving councillor in West Sussex

All council data is held in the UK, with encrypted cross-region backups inside the EU.

Ready when you are

Ready to run your council on Council Works?

Self-serve onboarding takes about ten minutes. Or talk to us first. We'd rather know your council before we sell to it.

Start your council Talk to us first