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Adele Taylor

Adele Taylor

Adele Taylor is interim executive director of finance and Governance at Cherwell and South Northamptonshire

Articles by Adele Taylor

Engaging with our partners

By Adele Taylor | 08 October 2019

We need to be engaging in a better way with local businesses in our areas so they understand how ...

Putting it on paper

By Adele Taylor | 20 August 2019

An 'extremely long piece of paper' helped her finance team to understand 'what an integral part t...

Being creative local leaders is more important than ever

By Adele Taylor | 09 July 2019

In the context of the current funding risks and uncertainty, councils need to be thinking even mo...

Banbury broadens its offer for residents

By Adele Taylor | 28 May 2019

Cherwell DC bought the existing shopping centre in Banbury and the site for a new leisure and ret...

Letting teams redesign their own way to success

By Adele Taylor | 28 May 2019

Adele Taylor says the impressive results of a LEAN approach to eliminating waste show that involv...

We need sustainable funding

By Adele Taylor | 23 April 2019

We are lurching towards schemes where we can deliver something good or extra just because there i...

Financial chiefs need to be bridge builders and broadcasters

By Adele Taylor | 06 March 2019

Finance 'needs to be a visible force' as planning begins for beyond 2020, says Adele Taylor.

We still need to plan for the medium-term

By Adele Taylor | 23 January 2019

Adele Taylor explains why a medium-term financial strategy is still important for councils, despi...

Crunching those numbers in super-quick time

By Adele Taylor | 21 November 2018

The skill finance teams need in their DNA is 'to be able to do that quick and dirty analysis almo...

money matters

By Adele Taylor | 15 October 2018

Adele Taylor says the 'so what?' question is a really important one that brings you back to why y...