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, email, 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 shuffling lists between disconnected apps.

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. Optional in-room recording today, so the clerk listens back in one place instead of digging through phone audio. Auto-transcript is coming next, so you'll search the words rather than scrub the timeline.

Live mode + recording today, transcript next

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. Three visibility levels (Private, Council, Public) decide what residents see; flipping a document to Public publishes it to your site instantly. Connect your council's OneDrive or SharePoint and every file lives there too, so your documents always sit somewhere you control.

Transparency Code mapped · OneDrive backup

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

How it works

A dozen manual steps becomes one click.

Three of the biggest jobs in a clerk's week: publishing a meeting, producing the minutes, and raising a payment. Here's what each looks like today, and what it looks like with Council Works.

Today, without a platform

The clerk does it all by hand.

Write the agenda in Word.
Email the chair to approve the draft.
Photocopy the pack at the parish office.
Email the pack to every councillor.
Update the council website with the meeting date.
Post the meeting to the village Facebook group.
File the agenda in OneDrive (or wherever).
Pin the public notice to the noticeboard.
Email a reminder 48 hours before.

With Council Works

The clerk clicks Publish.

Clerk clicks

Publish meeting

Notice Statutory notice period checked: 3 clear days for ordinary meetings, 7 for the annual.
Email Notice and agenda pack emailed to all councillors, branded as your council.
Scheduled Pre-read reminder queued for 48 hours before the meeting.
Filed Agenda pack archived in the Documents library, versioned.
Public site Meeting listed on yourcouncil-pc.gov.uk for residents.

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

£600–900 /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

Fully managed

Let's talk

Quoted per council. Everything in Core, plus the rest of your council's IT. One supplier, one invoice, one number to call.

Everything in the Core platform
Email hosting on your council domain
Private chat for councillors (Mattermost)
IT helpdesk for clerk and councillors
Hardware support: laptops, printer, router

Talk to us about managed

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.

Request a quote

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

Your council's records and audit trail are held in the UK; documents are stored in the EU, with encrypted backups. Fully UK GDPR compliant.

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

The governance platform
councils run on.

Good morning, Helen.