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Groups - Areas of Involvement

Management Committee
The Management Committee meets every two months in open meetings. Business is dealt with briefly at the start of each meeting which then considers and discusses issues that are current and relevant. See meeting dates for details. All are welcome.

Working Groups

Affordable Housing
Established following the Rural White Paper Conference in October 2001, the Affordable Housing Working Group has begun to develop its work programmes. A Peak District Affordable Housing Conference was held on Sat 19 Nov 2005 - MORE DETAILS.

Farming
Recently published a report 'Hard Times' (see publications for details and downloadable PDF file) and currently involved in establishing a National Farmers Network.

Partnership Working

Local Strategic Partnerships
i) The Derbyshire Dales and High Peak Local Strategic Partnership
ii) Moorlands Together
New partnerships that bring together key stakeholders in the public, private and voluntary sector to take an overview of service delivery across the area. The LSPs are responsible for developing and implementing the Community Strategies.

The Peak District Rural Action Zone
A Steering Group of the Sub-regional Strategic Partnership, Derby and Derbyshire Economic Partnership (DDEP), that relates to economic regeneration in the area and draws down government and other funding to the Peak District.

Peak Partners for Rural Action
A partnership of organisations working together to support and enhance voluntary and community action in the Derbyshire Dales and the High Peak.

Participation in Project Steering Groups

Leader + in the Peaks, Dales and Moorlands
PDRDF has taken part in the Local Action Group that prepared an application for a local Leader + programme - a European initiative to support local community economic development work. The PDRDF involvement is mainly to develop a targeting methodology based on its policy development paper "Reaching People". The programme will also develop women's and young people's enterprise units, a range of training initiatives under the "College of the Peak" banner, a range of community-based art projects under the "Gateway" banner, community-based access initiatives and support a Tourism Forum.

North Staffordshire / West Derbyshire Rural Transport Partnership and
Hope Valley & High Peak Transport Partnership

PDRDF attends the Steering Group for these partnerships.


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