East Durham Area Action Partnership
East Durham Area Action Partnership (AAP) gives people and organisations in and around Durham City the opportunity to work together and take action on local issues.
We are updating our AAP Facebook page with any local information regarding the coronavirus. This includes changes to services or support in your area.
What we do
We're a partnership that consists of members of the public, representatives from Durham County Council, town and parish councils, police, fire, health, housing, business, university and voluntary organisations. Together we:
Where we cover
The areas that East Durham AAP covers are:
A-F | G-L | M-R | S-W |
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Blackhall Colliery | Haswell | Murton | Seaham |
Castle Eden | Haswell Plough | Peterlee | Shotton |
Cold Hesledon | Hesledon | South Hetton | |
Dalton-le-Dale | Horden | Station Town | |
Dawdon | Hutton Henry | South Hetton | |
Deneside | Thornley | ||
Easington | Wheatley Hill | ||
Easington Colliery | Wingate |
You can see this information on our
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How we work
The AAP consists of a board and forum that work together to tackle issues in local communities. Our AAP forum is a group of people and organisations - on average about 650 and can meet up to twice a year to decide on our AAP's direction, including where funding should be spent in future (AAP priorities). Anyone over the age of 11 can join the forum. If you join our AAP, you become a forum member. As a forum member, you're invited to take part in our forum meetings, where you'll have the opportunity to let us know where you think funding should be spent in your community. The AAP board is the decision making body of the AAP. It consists of 21 members, made up of: Anyone over the age of 16 can apply to join the board. Anyone can attend a board meeting which meet at least six times a year to: We put plans and actions in place to help community groups and local organisations develop projects that meet our AAP priorities. We have a combined budget of nearly £145,000 to support local projects. This is in addition to a neighbourhood budget which each county councillor has to use for local initiatives which is supported by the AAPs.AAP forum
AAP board
For further information on AAP funding for community groups and local organisations see Apply for funding through East Durham AAP.
Board members
The AAP board is the decision making body of the AAP. See our East Durham AAP Board meetings page for a list of our board members.
Task and finish groups
We take actions on issues linked to our priorities. To do this, we have priority task and finish groups. See East Durham AAP priorities for a list of our priorities, and further information about out task and finish groups.
AAP statistics
View East Durham AAP - profile to see the statistical information available for East Durham AAP area.
- Area Action Partnership - East Durham
- Area Action Partnership - East Durham
- 03000 262 054
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Our address is:
- Spectrum Business Park
- Seaham
- County Durham
- United Kingdom
- SR7 7TT