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The town & parish council management system

Run your whole town or parish council from one place .

Town Desk is the all-in-one management system, CRM and IT platform for UK town & parish councils — enquiries, bookings, allotments, cemeteries, finance and governance, joined up in one simple, accessible system.

No installation, running in minutes · WCAG 2.2 AA accessible · Secure and encrypted

Town Desk · at a glance

12

Open enquiries

4

Bookings this week

£2.1k

Spend to approve

7

On the allotment list

12d

Until next FOI due

38

Assets tracked

Everything included, no add-ons

One system for your whole team — clerks, officers, councillors and volunteers. Every module is included as standard, with no hidden add-ons or “request a quote” runaround.

Accessible by law, out of the box

Built to the WCAG 2.2 AA standard public bodies are legally required to meet — keyboard-friendly, high-contrast, screen-reader ready, with an accessibility statement included.

One joined-up system

Enquiries, bookings, allotments, cemeteries, finance and governance share one modern interface — replacing a drawer full of spreadsheets, paper diaries and disconnected tools.

Nothing to install

Town Desk runs in the browser. Sign in once and your access level decides what you can see and do — no servers, no updates, no IT headache.

Sound familiar?

A drawer full of spreadsheets, a paper diary, and a dozen tools that don’t talk

Small councils run an enormous amount on very few people. Town Desk replaces the patchwork with one tidy, modern back-office — so an enquiry, a booking, an allotment waiting list and an FOI deadline all live in the same place, and nothing slips.

A real look

This is the actual product — not a concept

Real screens from Town Desk: your whole office at a glance, every resident enquiry tracked, and the field work managed from wherever you are.

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The Town Desk dashboard — a noticeboard of live widgets showing jobs to do, open tickets, bookings, assets needing repair and pending spend requests.

Your whole council office at a glance — a dashboard you arrange to suit how you work.

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The Town Desk tickets list — resident enquiries with a reference, department, assignee, priority and status.

Every enquiry, tracked to done

Residents report a problem — by QR code, the public form or a phone call — and it lands in one queue, routed to the right department with a full history.

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The Town Desk estate map — assets, play equipment, reported issues and grass-cutting areas on one map, colour-coded by condition.

Everything the council owns, on one map

Assets, play areas, reported issues and grass-cutting rounds — on a single estate map, colour-coded by condition, so you can see what needs attention at a glance.

Out on site

Works on a tablet or a phone, too

Town Desk runs in any browser — so you can check an allotment waiting list from the plot, log a fault from the rec, or glance at the day’s jobs on your phone. Nothing to install, and it installs as an app on phones and tablets.

Town Desk running on an iPad, showing the allotments screen with plots, vacancies and the public waiting list.
Town Desk running on a phone, showing the dashboard with a bottom tab bar.

One system, every job

Everything a council office does

Customer service & enquiries

A ticketing backbone for every resident enquiry, report and request.

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Democratic services

Run meetings, decisions and members the way the law expects.

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Governance & compliance

Stay on the right side of statutory duties without the spreadsheet panic.

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Finance & payments

Approvals, reimbursements and online card payments — without doubling as your accounts package.

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Facilities & assets

Fill your venues and keep your assets safe and inspected.

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Open spaces

Allotments and cemeteries, fully managed with live maps.

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Analytics, reports & built-in help

Town Desk Analytics — our flagship — plus one-click statutory packs and a friendly assistant who never goes on leave.

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Staff & access

Your team directory and rotas, with the access controls that keep the right people in the right places.

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★ Flagship feature

Town Desk Analytics

Our proprietary analytics system — live, animated dashboards and trends across every part of your council: tickets, finance, allotments, assets, governance and more. Filter by any period and export a branded PDF in seconds.

  • Live, animated dashboards across every module
  • Filter by any period — month, quarter or year
  • Export a branded, board-ready PDF in seconds
Explore the analytics
Analytics · last 12 months Export PDF
87% resolved

Enquiries closed

Tickets / month ↑

£18.4k

Spend this year

126

Bookings taken

100%

FOIs on time

Why Town Desk

More joined-up than buying a tool per job

Most rivals sell you a module at a time and lock the good bits behind add-ons. Town Desk does the opposite — every module included, no surprise upsells.

  • A unified ticketing/CRM backbone — not a drawer of disconnected single-purpose tools
  • Public QR issue reporting that feeds straight into your service queue
  • An asset register with real inspection schedules, not just a finance line
  • Online payments, live maps and recurring bookings included as standard
  • A 5-tier access model so the right people see the right things
  • Encrypted backups and a full audit trail built in
  • Every module included as standard — no add-ons and no “request a quote” runaround
“We were juggling spreadsheets and paper for everything from allotments to enquiries. Town Desk puts it all in one place — and our whole team can get in and get on with it.”
A local council

Pricing

One price. Every module.

£200 a month for the whole system, including 5 users — then just £20 a month for each extra person who needs a login. No tiers, nothing locked behind an add-on and no “request a quote” runaround.

£200 / month, including 5 users

See Town Desk with your own council’s data

Book a free, no-obligation demo and start a free 30-day trial. We’ll help you migrate your existing records to get you going.

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