Our consultancy services support both council staff and councillors in:

  • Understanding community needs in depth by means of community surveys
  • Developing strategies which meet community needs cost-effectively
  • Making key decisions concerning community services and the use of council budgets
  • Undertaking key activities such as planning, budgeting, financial appraisals, tender management, innovative service delivery design, and recruitment of key staff
  • Reviewing staffing structures, defining roles, and developing key skills
  • Ensuring best practice processes, IT systems and procedures are in place to enable a council to fulfil its obligations effectively while minimising risk

Our services are practical and cost-effective, whilst at the same time rigorous and based on best practice.

Please contact us to discuss your detailed needs: we will normally quote a fixed fee for the work in question, and agree a timescale and outputs to meet your specific requirements.


Budget Preparation

Service Delivery Design


Key Staff Recruitment

Best Practice Processes, IT Systems, & Procedures

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Christmas 2025

LGRC Christmas holiday hours

The LGRC office will be closed from 5pm on Tuesday 23 December to 9am on Monday 5 January. If you need to contact us urgently over the Christmas break, please get in touch with our CEO, David McKnight on david.mcknight@lgrc.uk

Please mark any URGENT emails as such in the subject line and we will always respond; otherwise, we will deal with messages left when we return from the Christmas break.

Happy Christmas from LGRC!