Forum Representative

This page is for community forum members that are elected representatives from one of the forums; they may sit at the Southend Together Board or another partnership meeting.

Each Forum has an elected representative that sits on the Southend Together Board, the Local Strategic Partnership. The Representative is expected to reflect the broader views of the Forum over and above the interests of their personal or organisation’s view.

Southend Together approved and adopted the Sustainable Community Strategy at their Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday 2 July 2007. Southend Together listened to the hopes, concerns and ambitions of a wide range of people and organisations in the borough and gathered their views and ideas on what would improve the quality of life in Southend. Southend Together want to see the town develop as a sustainable community, one that meets the needs of its residents, now and in the future. This document is now under review please go to the Consultation page for more details.

The role of the Representative includes;

Raising the profile of the Forum in a way that highlights the value, diversity and contribution of the Forum in relation to that partnership area.
Influencing and, where necessary, challenging thinking and decisions made by the partnership to ensure the Forum’s perspective is taken into account (e.g. discrimination and exclusion of marginalised groups).
Contributing to the overall development and operation of the partnership to ensure it fulfils its purpose.
Reporting and feeding back information from partnership meetings to the Forum.

Once elected the representative will receive a pack of information about the meeting they will attend and as much background information as is available.

Some documents that may be useful are attached below.