Partners Advisory Forum
The Partners Advisory Forum is the key interface between CSGN delivery partners and the CSGNT Board and Staff Team. It exists to inform and influence the development and implementation of the CSGN.
Terms of Reference
- To contribute to CSGN policy development, work programmes and activities
- To identify, explore and support innovation in Green Network delivery
- To assist emerging delivery partnership structures
- To act as a “sounding board” to ensure that the policies/programmes being developed for CSGN delivery are realistic, achievable and desirable
- To ensure that there is a two way flow of information and ideas from strategic level to project delivery and vice versa and, in so doing, to achieve more effective networking and delivery of outputs on the ground
- The main group will meet three times a year in January, May and September with an additional annual Local Authority forum meeting (timing to be confirmed).
Membership is open to any organisation or group involved in CSGN delivery ‘at scale’ through:
- policy development and implementation
- research designed to develop green network practice
- delivery of components of the CSGN (directly or through supporting/facilitating others)
Current members of the Partners Advisory Forum include:
- Ayrshire Green Network Partnership
- Central Scotland Green Network Trust
- East Ayrshire Woodlands
- Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust
- Fife Coast and Countryside Trust
- GCV Green Network Partnership
- Lothians & Fife Green Network Partnership
- Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
- Scottish Forestry
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- Stirling Council
The Forum meets three times a year. Secretariat support is provided by the CSGNT.