Website User’s Guide
Brill Parish Council Website User’s Guide (v1)
Welcome to the Brill Parish Council website
Why a website?
The main purpose of this website it to fulfil our legal obligation to make public our minutes, policies and financial information. We’ve also taken the opportunity to introduce the Parish Council team, explain what we do, and catalogue services and amenities in Brill.
Equally important (we think!) is information in support of our projects, including the management of Brill Common, care of Brill Windmill, our monthly newsletter, and our wonderful children’s playgrounds and MUGA.
The third function of the website (and our favourite) is to celebrate our community - and so we offer a directory of clubs and groups, features on the Best of Brill (our allotments, the Lunch Club, and Bernwode News, for starters) - and a taste of our incredible history.
Along the way, we promote events of general community interest and pass on news and notices from Bucks Council, Thames Valley Police, Community Impact and other worthy bodies.
Finding your way around
The home page - or welcome page - contains items of immediate interest. Here you’ll find links to our current newsletter and the Protect Brill Common Forever! blog, plus a section on Parish Council business and posters of up-coming events.
At the top of the page (above the picture) you’ll find seven drop-down menus labeled Community, Environment, Leisure and so on. Clicking on these will reveal the main pages of the website.
Next to the drop-down menus is a button marked ‘contact the Parish Council’. This will take you straight to our contact page where you can send a quick message or check our telephone number or office opening times.
There’s also a search box on the home page to help you find specific information. It works really well. Just type something in the box (be original and try “windmill”!)and press ‘enter’ on your keyboard and the results will appear for you to select the most appropriate.
Privacy and Acessibility
At the bottom of the home page - and every page - are links to two important documents:
Our Privacy Notice which describes how the Parish Council handles your personal data, including information collected by this website. (It also includes a nice explanation of internet cookies.)
Our website Accessibility Statement which details the steps we’ve taken so far to make this website useable for people with a disability, including sight loss and motor disorders - and the work we still need to do.
Accuracy of information
We work hard to make sure the information on this website is accurate and current - but there’s a lot of information here and inevitably sometimes things will slip out-of-date or change without us knowing.
Please don’t blame us - or hold us liable for the consequences, direct or indirect, to get legal - if you miss a bus or the Post Office is closed when you get there. Instead, tell us so we can put it right.
Another point about accuracy. This website has been going now for nearly eight years and in that time several sets of councillors have come and gone. Although the parish council works as a team, differences do arise - so we need to make clear that when opinions are (rarely) expressed on this website, they do not necessarily represent those of all councillors in past, now - or in the future.
Website safety
This website is built and maintained with great care using a very reputable platform called Squarespace. The design is deliberately simple, with no bells or whistles, and all external links are carefully chosen. There is no reason why it should cause your laptop or phone any harm through viruses or malware - but we cannot absolutely guarantee it.
The internet is a wild and tricksy place and all users should be careful, all of the time. Make sure your device is using an up-to-date operating system and you have installed or activated appropriate anti-virus software - and (top tip) take care opening emails from senders you don’t recognise. Read more about this on our Security and Wellbeing page.
And talking about links: We need to add that Brill Parish Council doesn’t endorse or take responsibility for the content or safety of any external sites.
Intellectual property
Everything on the website - words, images, and all the pdf documents - is the property of Brill Parish Council and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. Please don’t copy, distribute, or use any part of this website without asking us first.
Photographs are either stock images from Unsplash (website opens in new tab) or captured by the web designer/editor - unless credited otherwise.
Almost all of website content was written by a human. Contributed content (for example, to the Newsletter) which may or may not have used artificial intelligence (AI) was edited and checked by a human before publication. The website designer/editor uses AI for technical research but never for writing - so any mistakes or misunderstandings are entirely human!
Thank you!
Thank you for your interest in Brill Parish Council and this website.
If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions, please email the web designer/editor. Similarly, if you spot any errors, omissions or broken links, let us know as soon as possible. Your interest and input are genuinely appreciated.
This document
Prepared by Hannah Hulme Hunter in February 2026.
For review 2027, if not before.
