Unlimited committees
Full Council, Planning, Finance, Environment and the rest, each with its own membership, schedule and quorum.
For town and borough councils
The work of the council, carried through.
30-day free trial · No card · Unlimited councillors
The hall needs a new roof. There is a committee recommendation to consider, papers for councillors and a decision to make. Quorate keeps that business connected, so the clerk can carry it through Full Council without rebuilding the record at every stage.
Follow Oakfield Parish Council, a fictional demonstration organisation, through one connected piece of council business.
An agenda with its working behind it.
The clerk assembles the agenda from the meeting template and recorded business: eligible outstanding actions, committee referrals and policy or risk reviews due. Each source gives the next meeting a starting point. The clerk checks the items, adds the papers and chooses when to publish.
Councillors arrive with the same papers.
The councillor opens the meeting in the member portal, checks the agenda and reads the supporting papers. Personal notes stay against the item for their own preparation. On a phone, the same portal keeps the meeting and their actions within reach.
Pack readiness is shown in the portal; a download is available when the file is ready. Access to confidential papers follows the member’s permissions.
Explore the member portal
Keep the decision beside the business.
During Full Council, the clerk records the motion, declarations, votes and decision against the hall item. Configured quorum and voting checks sit in the meeting context. An action gives the agreed next step an owner and a due date, linked to the decision that explains it.
People record the meeting. Quorate provides the configured checks and the recorded basis for the decision.
The draft starts with what was recorded.
Recorded decisions, votes, declarations and item-linked actions feed the draft minutes. The clerk adds the account of the discussion and checks the wording. Chair review, publication, approval and signing remain explicit stages of the council’s record.
The draft reflects the entries people make. It does not transcribe the discussion or supply facts that were never recorded.
How the minutes record worksA public result, with its status clear.
The public portal shows the permitted published Part 1 agenda and minutes. A published draft is labelled as a draft; approval is a separate step. Residents can follow the council’s recorded business while confidential material and councillors’ personal notes stay outside that public view.
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The next meeting has a history.
The roof decision stays linked to its action. The owner records progress in the action record. When the clerk assembles the next agenda, eligible overdue or undated open actions return for attention, alongside pending referrals and reviews due. The thread continues beyond the meeting.
More attention for the place you serve.
Quorate takes on the recurring administration around the council’s work: preparing the business, keeping the meeting record and carrying the next steps forward. The council concentrates on the judgement and the community behind it.
For your organisation
The detail follows your work.
Part 1 and Part 2
Confidential items are excluded from the public pack and portal, and access to Part 2 papers is permission-controlled and audit-logged.
Standing orders, configured
Start from the NALC model template and configure quorum, notice periods and voting rules per committee.
Planning consultations
Log planning applications from your planning authority and record the council’s consultation response.
For parish, town, principal and Welsh community councils and national park authorities
API and webhooks
API and webhooks on request; enabled per organisation. A REST API over meetings, decisions, actions, members and documents, with signed webhook deliveries to your website or other systems.
Govern, when you need it
Govern adds principal-authority functions — delegated decisions, forward plans and call-in among them — more storage and custom email settings, by purchase order.
Your organisation, in your terms.
Mayor or chair, town clerk or democratic services — the labels follow your council type. These defaults follow the organisation type you choose at signup. Your team can configure them.
See all organisation types- Members
- Councillor
- Lead officer
- Town Clerk
- Chair
- Mayor
- Main meeting
- Full Council
- Committees
- Committee
- Annual meeting
- Annual Meeting of the Council
One plan for the whole organisation.
Quorate
£99
Per organisation, per year, exclusive of VAT.
Parish and town councils use the standard Quorate plan. Your councillors, committees, member portal and public portal are included, with no per-seat fees.
30-day free trial, no card.
Govern · optional upgrade
For eligible local-government organisations that need principal-authority functions, including delegated decisions, forward plans and call-in, plus more storage and custom email settings. Bought by purchase order.
£750 a year, exclusive of VAT
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