Category Archives: Advisory Board

Natural England use blog to gather feedback on their 2060 Vision

By Simon Berry | Published: 7 October, 2009

Vertical Garden at CaixaForum in Madrid
Image credit: Patrick Breen
Guy Thompson, Executive Director, External Affairs at Natural England, addressed Defra’s Third Sector Advisory Board on Monday (5/10/09). Guy highlighted the value of the third sector to the work of Natural England. He indicated that Natural England were working to publish their third sector policy statement in line with the commitment [...]

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Third Sector Climate Change Declaration

By Conor Ritchie | Published: 15 June, 2009

Government Ministers helped ‘relaunch’ the Third Sector Climate Change Declaration today (15 June) at the RSA in central London.
Huw Irranca-Davies MP (Minister for Marine and Natural Environment, Defra) and Joan Ruddock MP (Minister of State, DECC) joined a range of signatories, both new and old, to reaffirm their commitment to deliver behaviour change at [...]

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Third Sector Advisory Board meets for the first time

By Simon Berry | Published: 12 May, 2009

At the end of last week the new Third Sector Advisory Board elected Roger Clarke as their Chair and their first meeting took place yesterday afternoon (11/5/09). Philip Mulligan, CEO of Environmental Protection UK was confirmed as Vice- Chair.
The agenda for this first meeting was put together by the third sector team and focussed on improving the [...]

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Advisory Board away day

By Simon Berry | Published: 25 March, 2009

To kick-off the work of our new Third Sector Advisory Board, the new board members gathered for the first time at Defra’s Innovation Centre in Reading for an away day. The purposes of the day were to:

Discuss and articulate the Board’s purpose and objectives
Review the strategy document and begin to consider priorities, risks and interdependencies
Agree how [...]

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Advisory board members announced

By Simon Berry | Published: 25 March, 2009

One of the commitments in our Third Sector Strategy was to establish a new Third Sector Advisory Board. Following an open process we received 35 applications from well qualified individuals with experience from across the sector. This bodes well for the future of the strategy but meant that we are in a position of having [...]

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What’s the difference between the Advisory Board and Ministerial Taskforce?

By Simon Berry | Published: 18 February, 2009

I had the pleasure of attending the workshop for BTCV Champions in Doncaster last Friday (13/2/09). BTCV were a key partner in the Defra-funded ‘Every Action Counts‘ programme which is now coming to an end. This workshop reflected on the experience of the programme and looked at how it might move forward. Ed Miliband (Secretary [...]

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