Introduction

  • The Council hold ordinary meetings monthly, usually on the first Tuesday. They also hold extra meetings as necessary.
  • The Council's own website has minutes of those meetings since 2011; here you can see them back to 2004.
  • Minutes of Council ordinary meetings prior to Oct 2004 are not available on-line but the Webmaster has hard-copies for minutes back to Jan 1991
  • Minutes of Council meetings have been taken from the Council's websites (past and present) and from the webmaster's own files.
  • Minutes of all Council Committees and sub-committees should also be published but this has not been the general rule. e.g.
    • Minutes of the Council's "New Building Committee" are not published.
    • Minutes of the Council's Welney Archive & Social History ["WASH"] Committee have not been published since 2008.
  • Minutes of meetings of the Playing Field and William Marshall Centre Trustees (the Council in a different guise) were published from Nov 2015 to Jun 2016 but not since. Some that were published may have been later removed
  • Minutes of meetings of the Welney Parish Hall Management Committee, a long-defunct Council committee, and the previous non-council Parish Hall committee are on the Parish Hall pages

All minutes open in new windows or tabs to allow browsing between them.
Minutes for years 2020 to date will be added during May 2024

 
 

2024

Month day Who What Where When Agd Mins Clerk
Jan   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Feb   WPC ordinary mtg WMC    
Mar   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
                 
Apr   WPC ordinary mtg          
May   APM An'l Parish (now 'village') Mtg WMC        
May   WPC AGM WMC        
May   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
June                
June   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
July   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Aug   WPC ordinary mtg WMC      
                 
Sep   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Oct   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Nov   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Dec   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
WPC = Weley Parish Council
WMCMC = William Marshall Centre Management Committee

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2023

Month day Who What Where When Agd Mins Clerk
Jan   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Feb   WPC ordinary mtg WMC    
Mar   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Mar   PFT quarterly mtg WMC        
Apr   WPC ordinary mtg          
May   APM An'l Parish (now 'village') Mtg WMC        
May   WPC AGM WMC        
May   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
June   PFT quarterly mtg WMC        
June   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
July   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Aug   WPC ordinary mtg WMC      
        WMC        
Sep   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Oct   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Nov   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Dec   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
WPC = Weley Parish Council
WMCMC = William Marshall Centre Management Committee
 

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2022

Month day Who What Where When Agd Mins Clerk
Jan 4 WPC ordinary mtg WMC       MH
Feb 1 WPC ordinary mtg WMC     MH
Mar 1 WPC ordinary mtg WMC       MH
                 
Apr 5 WPC ordinary mtg         MH
May   APM An'l Parish (now 'village') Mtg WMC        
May   WPC AGM WMC        
May   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
                 
June   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
July   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Aug   WPC ordinary m WMC      
                 
Sep   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Oct   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Nov   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Dec   WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
WPC = Weley Parish Council
WMCMC = William Marshall Centre Management Committee
 

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2021

Month day Who What Where When Agd Mins Clerk
Jan 12 WPC ordinary mtg          
Jan 25 WPC extraordinary mtg          
Feb 3 WPF Trustee  mtg      
Feb 9 WPC ordinary mtg          
Mar 2 WPC ordinary mtg          
Mar 15 WPC extraordinary mtg ref Fraud zoom       JM
Apr 6 WPFT trustee mtg          
Apr 6 WPC Statement          
Apr 20 WPFT trustee mtg          
May 4 APM An'l Parish (now 'village') Mtg zoom       JM
May 4 WPC ordinary mtg          
May   WPC ordinary mtg          
                 
June 1 WPC ordinary mtg   1930      
July 6 WPC ordinary mtg   1930      
Aug 3 WPC ordinary mtg   1930   MH
Aug   WPC extraordinary          
Sep 7 WPC ordinary mtg   1930     MH
Oct 5 WPC ordinary mtg   1930     MH
Nov 2 WPC ordinary mtg   1930     MH
Dec 7 WPC ordinary mtg WMC 1900     MH
WPC = Weley Parish Council
WMCMC = William Marshall Centre Management Committee
 
ACCOUNTING FRAUD UPDATE (see 2019)

Former Parish Council Clerk Mrs Pat Copeman admitted to Norfolk CID embezzling nearly £30,000 from the Council between 2005-2017 of which she secretly repaid c£9,000 in 2017. She agreed to repay the balance in return for a caution rather than trial.
Norfolk CID asked WPC if that would be acceptable. On 15th March 2021 WPC agreed unaninously that it was.
NC were informed.

FRAUD SECOND UPDATE
WPC minutes 4th Oct stated "meeting has been asked for with police to disuss case"

WPC minutes 7th Dec stated
"The Police investigation was discussed; it was agreed that the person involved would receive a Police caution. A sum of money has been returned to the Parish Council bank account".

Note, the "sum of money" refers to the secret re-payment made in 2017. The £21,000 repayment that had been agreed by Mrs Copeman, CID and Council earlier this year remains UNPAID. Mrs Copeman has got away with it.

Clerk Mrs Millard resigned
wef 14th June due to behaviour of 2 members of the public
(PG & LB)
 
 

2020

Month day Who What Where When Agd Mins Clerk
Jan 14 WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Feb 4 WPC ordinary mtg WMC 1930  
Mar 3 APM annual parish meeting          
Mar 3 WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
Mar 3 PFT trustee mins WMC        
Apr 14 WPC ordinary mtg          
May 12 WPFT trustee mtg WMC        
May 12 WPC ordinary mtg WMC        
                 
June                
                 
July 7 WPC ordinary mtg virtual
Aug 4 WPC ordinary mtg virtual      
Aug 20 WPC extraordinary mtg incl Helen Carrier's biased and inacurate Internal Audit Report virtual        
Sep   WPC ordinary mtg          
Oct   WPC ordinary mtg          
Nov   WPC ordinary mtg          
Dec   WPC ordinary mtg          
WPC = Weley Parish Council
WMCMC = William Marshall Centre Management Committee

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2019

Month day Who What Where When Agd Mins Clerk
Jan 8 WPC ordinary mtg WMC 1930   pdf VA/SF
Feb 5 WPC ordinary mtg WMC 1930 pdf SF
Mar 5 WPC ordinary mtg re WMC WMC 1830   pdf VA
Mar 5 PFT quarterly mtg       n/a  
Apr 2 WPC ordinary mtg WMC 1915   pdf SF
May 15 WPC ordinary mtg WMC 1930      
May 15 APM Annual Village (Parish) Meeting WMC 1900   pdf ??
May 15 WPC AGM WMC 1936   pdf ??
May 15 WPC ordinary mtg WMC 1930   pdf ??
June 4 PFT quarterly mtg (did it happen?) WMC     n/a  
June 4 WPC ordinary mtg WMC 1930   pdf VA/SF
July 2 WPC ordinary mtg WMC 1930   n/a  
Aug 6 WPC ordinary mtg NOT HELD     -  
Aug 9 WPC extraordinary mtg re WMC foundations (draft) WMC 1930   pdf NC
Sep 3 WPC ordinary mtg WMC 1930   pdf  
Oct ? WPC ordinary mtg       n/a  
Oct 20 JL Fraud terms of reference signed       pdf -
Nov 5 WPC ordinary mtg plus fraud report WMC 1930   pdf NC
Nov 5 WPC confidential-item-re-va WMC 2030   pdf NC
Dec 5 WPC closed restricted emergency mtg WMC 2040   pdf NC
WPC = Weley Parish Council
WMCMC = William Marshall Centre Management Committee
NCCC = New Community Centre Committee (is this same as WMCMC above?)
PFT = Playing Field Trustees (WPC are sole trustee so trustees are all the Councillors)
n/a = not available. Either not published, or published and later removed
WMCMC = William Marshall Centre Management Committee
ACCOUNTING FRAUD
At the Council meeting on 3rd June 2019, Chairman Cllr. Loveday read out an email from DC Foreman of Norfolk CID

"... detectives from King's Lynn are investigating allegation of financial misconduct within Welney Parish Council. Enquiries continue, however financial irregularities with the accounts dating back several years have been discovered. One female suspect has been questioned."

It is widely known that the suspect is Mrs Copeman, the Clerk from Feb 1996 to Apr 2017 who is said to have confessed.

MORE ABOUT THE FRAUD
The fraud was discovered in Sept 2018 with differing accounts of the circumstances. It was reported to "Action Fraud" by the then Chair, Peter Gardiner on 26th Sept 2018. He soon became dissatified with the work of uniformed branch and had it escalated to CID in March 2019.
In May Cllr John Loveday became Chair and was not happy that the fraud had not been made public nor satified by action to date. In Sept 2019 he proposed a working group to investigate and provide data to CID. The group (later named CFIG) to be parishioners Peter Gardiner and Peter Cox as investigators, with Cllr Adam Giles to oversee their work and report to Council.
 

2018

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 3rd WPC  ordinary mtg draft pdf
Jan 23rd WPC extra mtg re precept draft pdf
Feb 6th WPC ordinary meeting v2 pdf
Feb 20th extra meeting re new housing   pdf
Mar 6th WPC ordinary meeting draft pdf
Apr 3rd WPC ordinary meeting draft pdf
Apr 17th extra meeting re new clerk draft v2 pdf
May 1st AGM draft pdf
Jun 5th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Jul 3rd WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Aug 7th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Sep 4th WPC ordinary meeting draft pdf
Oct 2nd WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Nov 6th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Dec 4th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
     

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2017

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 3rd WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
  Playing Field Trustees meeting * n/a
Feb WPC ordinary meeting CANCELLED   n/a
Mar 7th Annual Parish meeting   pdf
Mar 7th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
  Playing Field Trustees meeting * n/a
Apr 4th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
May 2nd WPC AGM   pdf
Jun 6th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
July 4th Trustees meeting * n/a
July 4th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Aug 24th WPC special mtg re WMC prob   pdf
Sept 5th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Oct 3rd WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Nov 7th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Dec 5th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
       
* Minutes not published

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2016

Month day Who What Where When Agd Mins d/f
Jan 12  WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Jan 12 PFT         pdf  
Jan 19 WPC extra mtg       pdf  
Feb 2 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Mar 1 parish Annual Parish Meeting       pdf  
Mar 1 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Mar 1 PFT         pdf  
Mar 17 NBC         n/a  
Apr 5 WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
May 3 WPC AGM       pdf  
June 7 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
June 7 PFT         pdf #
July 5 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Aug 2 WPC ordinary meeting     pdf  
Aug 2 PFT         n/a  
Sep 6 WPC ordinary mtg       pdf  
Oct 4 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Nov 1 WPC ordinary mtg       pdf  
Dec 6 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
WPC = Weley Parish Council
NBC = New Building Committee (unclear whether this is same as NCCC below)
NCCC = New Community Centre Committee (is this same as NBC above?)
PFT = Playing Field Trustees (WPC are sole trustee so trustees are all the Councillors)
n/a = not available. Either not published, or published and later removed
# Minutes subsequently removed from Parish Council's own website.
WMCMC = William Marshall Centre Management Committee

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2015

Month day Who What Where When Agd Mins d/f
Jan 6 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Feb 3 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Mar 3 parish Annual Parish Meeting       pdf  
Mar 3 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Apr 7 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Apr 22 WPC extra mtg re school closure       pdf  
May 20 WPC AGM       pdf  
June 9 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
July 7 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
July 14 WPC extra mtg       pdf  
Aug 4 WPC ordinary meeting     pdf  
Sep 1 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Sep 22 WPC extra mtg       pdf  
Oct 6 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Oct 12 NBC 1st mtg (PEC present) School 2130   n/a  
Oct 21 NBC 2nd mtg (PEC present) Sch     n/a  
Oct 27 WPC extra mtg       pdf  
Nov 3 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Nov 3 PFT to revise Charity scheme WPH 2100   pdf  
Nov 11 WPC extra mtg re Wren grant       pdf  
Nov 11 NBC general to-do discussion       n/a  
Dec 1 WPC ordinary meeting       pdf  
Dec 1 PFT to form WMC mngt comm       pdf  
Dec 8 WPC mtg with MRC (builders)       pdf  
WPC = Weley Parish Council
NBC = New Building Committee (unclear whether this is same as NCCC below)
NCCC = New Community Centre Committee (is this same as NBC above?)
PFT = Playing Field Trustees (WPC are sole trustee so trustees are all the Councillors)
n/a = not available. Either not published, or published and later removed
WMCMC = William Marshall Centre Management Committee
 

2014

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 7th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Feb 4th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Mar 4th Annual Parish meeting not held
Mar 4th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Apr 1st WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
May 6th WPC AGM   pdf
Jun 3rd WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Jul 8th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Aug 5th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Sep 2nd
 WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Sep 23rd re draft lease for playing field   pdf
Oct 7th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Nov 11th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Dec 2nd WPC ordinary meeting   pdf

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2013

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 8th WPC ordinary meeting word pdf
Feb 5th WPC ordinary meeting word pdf
Mar 5th Annual Parish meeting not held
Mar 5th WPC ordinary meeting word pdf
Apr 2nd WPC ordinary meeting word pdf
May 7h WPC AGM word pdf
Jun 4th WPC ordinary meeting word pdf
Jul 2nd WPC ordinary meeting word pdf
Aug 6th WPC ordinary meeting word pdf
Sep 3rd WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Oct 1st WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Nov 5th WPC ordinary meeting   pdf
Dec 3rd WPC ordinary meeting   pdf

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2012

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 10th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Feb 7th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Mar 6th Annual Parish meeting word pdf
Mar 6th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Apr 3rd Council ordinary meeting word pdf
May 1st Council AGM word pdf
Jun 12th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Jul 3rd Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Aug 7th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Sep 4th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Oct 2nd Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Nov 6th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Dec 4th Council ordinary meeting word pdf

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2011

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 4th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Feb 1st Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Mar 1st Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Apr 5th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
May 10th Council AGM word pdf
Jun 7th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Jul 12th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Aug 2nd Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Sep 6th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Oct 4th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Nov 1st Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Dec 6th Council ordinary meeting word pdf

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2010

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 5th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Feb 2nd Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Feb 11th Special unpublicised private meeting word pdf
Mar 9th Annual Parish Meeting word pdf
Mar 9th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Apr 6th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
May 4th Council AGM word pdf
Jun 1st Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Jul 6th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Aug 3rd Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Sep 7th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Oct 5th Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Nov 2nd Council ordinary meeting word pdf
Dec 7th Council ordinary meeting word pdf

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2009

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 13th Council ordinary meeting word html
Feb 3rd Council ordinary meeting word html
Mar 3rd Council ordinary meeting word html
Apr 7th Council ordinary meeting word html
May 5th Council AGM word html
Jun 2nd Council ordinary meeting word html
Jul 7th Council ordinary meeting word html
Aug 4th Council ordinary meeting word html
Sep 1st Council ordinary meeting word html
Oct 6th Council ordinary meeting word html
Nov 3rd Council ordinary meeting word html
Dec 1st Council ordinary meeting word html

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2008

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 8th Council ordinary meeting word html
Jan 18th WASH Committee meeting word html
Feb 5th Council ordinary meeting word html
Mar 4th Council ordinary meeting word html
Apr 1st Council ordinary meeting word html
May 6th Council AGM word html
Jun 3rd Council ordinary meeting word html
Jul 1st Council ordinary meeting word html
Aug 5th Council ordinary meeting word html
Sep 2nd Council ordinary meeting word html
Oct 7th Council ordinary meeting word html
Oct 8th WASH Committee meeting word html
Nov 4th Council ordinary meeting word html
Dec 2nd Council ordinary meeting word html

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2007

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 10th Council ordinary meeting word
Jan 24th WASH Committee meeting word  
Feb 7th Council ordinary meeting word
Mar 3rd WASH Committee meeting word  
Mar 14th Annual PARISH Meeting word  
Mar 14th Council ordinary meeting word  
Apr 5th Council ordinary meeting word  
May 9th Council AGM word  
Jun 13th Council ordinary meeting word  
Jul 9th Council ordinary meeting word  
Aug 21st Council ordinary meeting word  
Sep 4th Council ordinary meeting word  
Oct 2nd Council ordinary meeting word  
Nov 6th Council ordinary meeting word  
Nov 7th WASH Committee meeting word  
Dec 11th Council ordinary meeting word  

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2006

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 11th Council ordinary meeting word  
Feb 8th Council ordinary meeting word  
Mar 8th Annual PARISH Meeting word  
Mar 8th Council ordinary meeting word  
Mar 22nd WASH Committee meeting word  
Apr 12th Council ordinary meeting word  
Apr 20th WASH Committee meeting word  
May 9th Council AGM word  
May 23rd WASH Committee meeting word  
Jun 14th Council ordinary meeting word  
Jul 11th WASH Committee meeting word  
Jul 12th Council ordinary meeting word  
Aug 9th Council ordinary meeting word  
Aug 22nd WASH Committee meeting word  
Sep 13th Council ordinary meeting word  
Oct 11th Council ordinary meeting word  
Nov 3rd WASH Committee meeting word  
Nov 7th Council ordinary meeting word  
Dec 13th Council ordinary meeting word  

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2005

Date Minutes of: available as
Jan 11th Council ordinary meeting word  
Jan 18th Parish ACTION PLAN meeting word  
Jan 21st meeting with Mrs Sheppard, MP word  
Jan 25th private meeting with Elgood's Brewery word  
Jan 28th OPEN meeting n/a  
Feb 10th Council ordinary meeting word  
Mar 8th Annual PARISH Meeting word  
Mar 8th Council ordinary meeting word  
Mar 16th Council special meeting re Elgoods word  
Apr no meetings !    
May 10th Council AGM word  
Jun 7th Council extra meeting word  
Jul 12th Council ordinary meeting word  
Aug no meetings !    
Sep 13th Council ordinary meeting word  
Oct 12th Council ordinary meeting word  
Nov 8th Council ordinary meeting word  
Dec 8th Council ordinary meeting word  

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2004

Date Minutes of: available as
       
       
Oct 12th Council ordinary meeting word  
Oct 30th Council extra meeting word  
Nov 9th Council ordinary meeting word  
Dec Council ordinary meeting    

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Minutes of Council ordinary meetings prior to Oct 2004 are not available on-line.
Please contact Webmaster for earlier minutes back to 1991
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