Action In Rural Sussex

East Sussex Rural Partnership

Aims of the Rural Partnership

The aim of the partnership is to bring together the key organisations that develop strategy and policy in East Sussex to ensure the best use of resources across the County to deliver projects and services in rural areas and to monitor the delivery of the Local Area Agreement (LAA) in rural areas.

The Rural Partnership in its present format and membership has been operating for just under 2 years.  It meets 4 times a year and has reporting mechanisms to the East Sussex Public Service Board and to regional and national rural forums and boards reporting to both DEFRA and the Rural Minister.

The Rural Partnership organises a Rural Forum twice a year to discuss with a broader interest group current topics or issues.  Last year focused on developing a rural response to the Local Area Agreement (LAA) requirements and to rural proofing key action plans withint he LAA that have rural dimension.

The role of the Forum is about an exchange of information and the Rural Partnership has a role to fully understand rural issues and make representations, where appropriate on behalf of rural interests.

  

Rural Partnership and Rural Forum Meeting schedule - 2010

 

Rural Partnership Meetings: 

Monday 8 March 2010            2.00pm - 4.00pm       Boship Farm Hotel, Hailsham

Monday 7 June 2010              2.00pm - 4.00pm       Uckfield Civic Centre

Monday 6 September 2010     2.00pm  -  4.00pm     Herstmonceux Village Hall

Monday 6 December 2010      2.00pm  -  4.00pm     Uckfield Civic Centre

 

Rural Forum Meetings:

Monday 8 March 2010             9.30am - 1.00pm     Boship Farm Hotel, Hailsham

Autumn Winter forum tbc        9.30am - 1.00pm     tbc

  

Contact Us

Action in rural Sussex provides the secretariat and organises the meetings of the East Sussex Rural Partnership. For more details or information please contact:

Teresa Gittins, Head of Strategy and Communications

Tel: (01273) 405442 Email: teresa.gittins@ruralsussex.org.uk

  

Role of the Rural Partnership

The role of the Rural Partnership is to:-

  1. Ensure that the East Sussex LAA and other high level East Sussex strategies are rural proofed both at a technical level and by involving rural people in their development.
  2. Act as a lobbying group to influence regional and national strategy, policy and allocation of funding.
  3. Link with Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) and other similar partnerships to put forward the rural case and ensure collaboration over projects where possible.
  4. Report to the East Sussex Assembly on how delivery of the LAA is progressing in rural areas and to recommend improvements in delivery
  5. Pull together priorities for rural areas from the organisations represented and agree priorities for action to be promoted to regional and national bodies, e.g. GOSE, SEEDA, DCLG, DEFRA, Natural England and the Commission for Rural Communities.
  6. Improve efficiency of partnership working in rural East Sussex with a view to making better use of available funding
  7. Develop the East Sussex Rural Forum, as the wider rural stakeholder group with a very broad and diverse range of rural interests represented on it.

  

Membership of the Rural Partnership

  • East Sussex Association of Local Councils
  • Sussex Police
  • East Sussex Economic Partnership
  • East Sussex Strategic Partnership
  • East Sussex Rural Forum
  • Action in rural Sussex
  • East Sussex County Council
  • Each of the three rural district councils, Lewes, Rother, Wealden.
  • South Downs Joint Committee
  • High Weald AONB
  • WARR Partnership
  • Plumpton College
  • East Sussex PCTs
  • Sussex Learning and Skills Council
  • The Children’s Trust
  • National Farmers Union (NFU) to represent land based business.
  • The Land and Country Business Association (CLA)
  • Natural England
  • The Environment Agency
  • GOSE
  • SEEDA

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