East Durham Rural Corridor AAP

Find out about the work of East Durham Rural Corridor Area Action Partnership (AAP), including details of upcoming events and our priorities.

Our board

The AAP board has 21 members - seven public and seven partner representatives and seven county councillors.

East Durham Rural Corridor AAP Annual Report 2016-17 (PDF, 1.7mb)

Board meetings

Find details of East Durham Rural Corridor Area Action Partnerships's (AAP) board meeting dates and the most recent meeting minutes.

Meeting dates

Minutes and summaries of previous meetings

For previous notes, please contact us.

Board members

Find details of East Durham Rural Corridor Area Action Partnership (AAP) board members.

East Durham Rural Corridor AAP is made up of seven public representatives, seven partner representatives and seven county councillors. They are:

Public representatives

Ann Carr
Eileen Dickinson
Jen Straughan-Hawley
Clive Crosby
Keith Pounder
Christine Varty (Chair)
Melvyn Carr

Partner representatives

Neighbourhood Inspector Sarah Honeyman (Police)
1 x Fire vacancy
Clair White (Clinical Commissioning Group)
Ian Walker (Housing)
1 x Durham Community Action (DCA) vacancy
Roger Goodes (Council Representative) (Vice Chair)
One business vacancy

County councillors

Cllr John Robinson (Sedgefield)
Cllr Jan Blakey (Coxhoe)
Cllr Peter Brookes (Trimdon & Thornley)
Cll David Brown (Sedgefield)
Cll Stuart Dunn (Coxhoe) (Vice Chair)
Cll Maura McKeon (Coxhoe)
Cllr Dennis Morgan (Local Councils Committee)
Cllr Lucy Hovvels (Trimdon & Thornley) (Alternate)

Our forum

The forum meets twice a year and is open to local people, businesses and organisations. It sets the AAP's priorities which it seeks to address through its projects and monitors the progress of these.

Forum members

Get involved with your local community!

Forum members can share their opinions and ideas with the AAP team and take part in task and finish groups to help achieve the priorities. Please contact us for the latest meeting dates and let us know beforehand if you'd like to attend so that we can make sure there's enough paperwork and seating available.

Joining the AAP

Get involved with your local community!

If you would like to have a say and influence decisions that affect your area join your local AAP. As a local forum member you'll be invited to meetings and events to discuss community issues.

Our area

The Icon for pdf East Durham Rural Corridor AAP map (PDF, 1.8mb) shows the area covered by the partnership. Or you can find County Durham Partnership: INA - profiles on the County Durham Partnership website.

Our priorities

Task and finish groups meet on a regular basis to discuss relevant issues and develop projects to address the AAP's priorities. Each task group is made up of forum members, board members, and representatives of those organisations whose co-operation is needed to get the job done.

Joint Priorities Task and Finish Group

This group supports health and wellbeing, older people, children, young people and their families in their community.

Meeting dates

Please contact us for more information about our next meeting.

Meeting notes

For previous notes, please contact us.

Area Action Partnership - East Durham Rural Corridor

Area Action Partnership - East Durham Rural Corridor

03000 261 129

Our address is:

15a Church Road
Trimdon Village
County Durham
United Kingdom
TS29 6PY

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Privacy notice - AAP - East Durham Rural Corridor (PDF, 30.4kb)

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