Our Events

We organise regular Teams seminars which are free to local authority employees and cover all things local government funding and financial health. This page covers all upcoming events with a link to register for each event.

The day after the Finance Settlement

Analysis of the Local Government Finance Settlement

Dan Bates will join Adrian Jenkins of Pixel Financial to provide a first analysis of the local government finance settlement.

Adrian will outline the main features of the settlement, with particular focus on the technical changes made to funding distributions.

Dan will investigate the distributional implications of the settlement, focusing  on authority types and regions.

January 2026

Setting your Business Rates budget

Business rates localisation has always been complex and with this year’s reset and all the policy changes, it has never been so difficult to navigate.

So let us help you! This seminar is aimed at finance teams to help your navigate the tricky process of agreeing a business rates budget that reflects all the changes and can be reconciled to your NNDR1! 

Past Events

Tuesday 9 December 10am - Free Teams event

The Road Ahead - Business Rates Policy Papers, Council Taxbase Analysis & the Settlement Policy Paper

With just over a week to go until the finance settlement, Adrian Jenkins of Pixel looked at the how the policy will impact on funding for the next three years and Mark Catlow of LGF Technical went through the Business Rates Reset policy changes.