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 2017-18 (PDF, 1.5mb)

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

Allan Blakemore
Eileen Dickinson
Jen Straughan-Hawley
Clive Crosby
Christine Carter
Christine Varty
Melvyn Carr

Partner representatives

Neighbourhood Inspector Sarah Honeyman (Police)
Michael Pearson (Fire)
Clair White (Clinical Commissioning Group)
Malcolm Gray (Housing)
Angela Stobbart (County Durham Housing Group)
Michelle Atkinson (Council Representative)
Tony Cutmore (The Cornforth Partnership)

County and parish councillors

Cllr John Robinson (Sedgefield)
Cllr Jude Grant (Trimdon & Thornley)
Cllr David Brown (Sedgefield)
Cllr Stuart Dunn (Coxhoe)
Cllr Maura McKeon (Coxhoe)
Cllr Lucy Hovvels (Trimdon & Thornley)
Cllr Bernie Oliver (parish)
Cllr Peter Brookes (Trimdon & Thornley) (alternate)
Parish Cllr Kathleen Dowson (Fishburn Parish Council) (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 East Durham Rural AAP - profile on the Durham Insight 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.