The Parish Council's role is varied and often differs from Parish to Parish, and Town to Town.
It is there to look after the interests of the parishioners and to represent them when dealing with the District and County Councils.  Maltby le Marsh Parish Council looks after the maintenance of the graveyard and the phone box and bus shelter areas, employing a contractor to do the work for them.   It also adminsters the Anne Bolles Educational Foundation, a charity trust to assist young people in the village in educational matters.  Parish Councils are also statutory consultees in the Planning system, and consider planning applications in the village.  Working together with the community the Parish Council can achieve many things, often being able to obtain funding for projects which would otherwise be out of the reach of the community.

There are various duties and responsibilities imposed on a Parish Council by Acts of Parliament, the list is too exhaustive to reproduce here but an e-mail to the Clerk will be replied to. 

Councillors are either elected at the four-early parish elections (2003 being the last election year), or, where insufficient numbers are elected, they can be co-opted by the existing members.  To qualify for either election or co-option the main criteria is that a person must be listed in the electoral register for the village, or have their main place of work in the village or live within three miles of the boundary.  Councillors also have to sign up to a Code of Conduct, which regulates such things as declarations of interests in items being discussed.