Updating and Maintenance
Our charges for updating your website are reasonable and affordable.
Most parish councils have 12 meetings per year plus an Annual Parish Meeting and an Annual Meeting of the Parish Council. We take your agendas/minutes and other documents, convert them to PDF files, upload them to the server and link them to the meetings page on your website. You can find further details on our updating charges, which start at £240.00 + VAT per year by downloading our Updating Plans schedule.
Our service and pricing is designed to reflect the work that's required in maintaining a website to the current legislation. We have recently over-hauled what's included in the design and build phase and now we've supported this in the Updating which, for one annual fee, includes the processing of:
12 *Sets Agendas and Minutes
2 Sets Annual Meetings
Unlimited Extra-Ordinary Meetings
Precept
Balance Sheet
Annual Return (including scanning)
Meetings Dates
Councillor Contact Details
Data Protection Policy
Freedom of Information Act Documents
Archiving of Minutes and Planning (if required).
and Technical Support
*There is an additional charge to councils who hold more than 12 normal meetings per year,
If at any time you want to add a new page to your website the cost is £35.00 + VAT per page. This includes building the page into the sites menu and deploy across all pages on the site.
Larger councils/websites choose our Webmaster Service where we charge one annual fee to cover all the updating and changes required to the site including new pages as and when required.
Finally there are the fixed annual costs of owning a website:
The Domain Name carries an annual renewal charge of £7.99 per year plus VAT which we usually manage on a two yearly basis.
The Hosting charge covers the cost of the server space where your website is located together with a part payment towards the maintenence of the servers and the associated software installed which manages the DNS server, the website server and the email servers. The cost of hosting your website is £60.00 per year plus VAT.
If you have any questions about costs please do not hesitate to contact us.
We are happy to work with any council, completely free of charge, to help construct a specification which they can send to prospective suppliers in order to obtain truly competitive costings.