Forum Structure
GreenSpace North West is a unique partnership involving a variety of local, regional and national organisations. The decision makers are member elected individuals who represent active members of GreenSpace North West on the Steering Group and any member can raise a query for consideration and decision. The Steering Group is accountable to GreenSpace board of trustees and to ensure trustees are active members of GreenSpace, many sit on the various region’s steering groups and or the National Forum. In our region, Steve Smith of Oldham Metropolitan Council is a trustee of GreenSpace.
All local authority organisations are invited to attend the sub-regional group meetings for their area. At these meetings a chair and vice chair is elected who under the groups terms of reference commits to attend the Steering Group to represent the sub-region. Items are raised and discussed and these meetings and updates are taken to the steering group together with suggestions for research, project work or events etc that the sub-regional group would like support in developing. Approved suggestions / requests are forwarded into GreenSpace North West’s business plan and action plan. These documents support the business plan of GreenSpace National Forum. Click here for the Forum's Annual Review.
For example, all Merseyside authorities are members and regularly meet as a sub-regional group. There is an elected chair and vice chair and meetings are well attended. The group have considered many topics such as Green Flag, older children’s play provision and community friends and forum. Another example from the Cheshire sub-regional group in 2008, who held a Parks Celebration Event. For the contact details of your local sub-regional group, click here.
Working groups concentrate on a particular area of work that the region wants to develop and be linked with other regions to advocate at a national level. These groups are for members only and are a learning forum. There are working groups committed to funding for parks and green spaces; influencing learning, training and skill development of park’s practitioners; community involvement and a new project working group to oversee a number of smaller areas of work. Again these groups report to the steering group and business carried forward as above.
The chair of the steering group and the GreenSpace North West Forum Manager regularly meet with GreenSpace informally and at a number of regular meetings. These include the National Forum, and a Regional Development Group. The Forum Manager, as an employee of GreenSpace, funded by membership of the region, attends regular staff meetings with other regional staff and the regional manager, Sarah Moore. Through these meetings GreenSpace North West links with other regional forums and the four main activities of GreenSpace; (community, education, improvement and awareness).
For a diagram illustrating the structure of GreenSpace North West, Click here.
All local authority organisations are invited to attend the sub-regional group meetings for their area. At these meetings a chair and vice chair is elected who under the groups terms of reference commits to attend the Steering Group to represent the sub-region. Items are raised and discussed and these meetings and updates are taken to the steering group together with suggestions for research, project work or events etc that the sub-regional group would like support in developing. Approved suggestions / requests are forwarded into GreenSpace North West’s business plan and action plan. These documents support the business plan of GreenSpace National Forum. Click here for the Forum's Annual Review.
For example, all Merseyside authorities are members and regularly meet as a sub-regional group. There is an elected chair and vice chair and meetings are well attended. The group have considered many topics such as Green Flag, older children’s play provision and community friends and forum. Another example from the Cheshire sub-regional group in 2008, who held a Parks Celebration Event. For the contact details of your local sub-regional group, click here.
Working groups concentrate on a particular area of work that the region wants to develop and be linked with other regions to advocate at a national level. These groups are for members only and are a learning forum. There are working groups committed to funding for parks and green spaces; influencing learning, training and skill development of park’s practitioners; community involvement and a new project working group to oversee a number of smaller areas of work. Again these groups report to the steering group and business carried forward as above.
The chair of the steering group and the GreenSpace North West Forum Manager regularly meet with GreenSpace informally and at a number of regular meetings. These include the National Forum, and a Regional Development Group. The Forum Manager, as an employee of GreenSpace, funded by membership of the region, attends regular staff meetings with other regional staff and the regional manager, Sarah Moore. Through these meetings GreenSpace North West links with other regional forums and the four main activities of GreenSpace; (community, education, improvement and awareness).
For a diagram illustrating the structure of GreenSpace North West, Click here.
Supporters
The following have supported GreenSpace North West financially. Current members in bold:Allerdale Borough Council
Blackburn & Darwen Borough Council
Blackpool Borough Council
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
Burnley Borough Council
Bury Metropolitan Borough Council
CABE Space
Carlisle City Council
Cheshire East Council
Cheshire West and Chester Councl
Copeland Borough Council
Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council
Fylde Borough Council
Halton Borough Council
Hyndburn Borough Council
Knowlsey Metropolitan Borough Council
Liverpool City Council
Macclesfield Borough Council
Manchester City Council
Oldham Borough Council
Pendle Borough Council
Preston City Council
Rochdale Borough Council
Rossendale Borough Council
Salford Metropolitan Borough Council
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
South Ribble Borough Council
St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council
Warrington Borough Council
West Lancashire District Council
Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
Wyre Borough Council
Natural England - North West and West Midlands are currently providing financial support to the forum.
Organisations who are working with or in contact with the forum
4NW
Apse
Big Lottery Fund
BTCV North West
CABE Space
Council for the Protection of Rural Engalnd
Cuerden Valley Park Trust
English Heritage North West
Environment Agency North West
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
Forestry Commission North West
Foundation
Government Office North West
Groundwork North West
In Place
Institute of Parks and Green Spaces
Keep Britain Tidy
Lancashire Biodiversity Network
The Land Trust
Landlife
Lantra
Liverpool John Moore's University
Liverpool University
Manchester University
Mersey Forest
Myerscough College
Natural England
NW Allotments Forum / Allotments Regeneration Initiative
NW Environment Link
NWDA
Preston Vision Board
Prospects Foundation
Reaseheath College
Red Rose Forest
Save the Ribble Campaign
Stockport Green Space Forum
Wildlife Trust for Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside
The forum's status
GreenSpace North West is an unincorporated association – formed by a consortium of strategic partners, and a body within the charity GreenSpace.The Forum is linked to the national organisation GreenSpace, which provides management support and is the employing organisation for the Forum’s staff. The Forum Manager's post is solely funded by membership to GreenSpace North West.
GreenSpace is a charity and a company limited by guarantee.