Countryside and Land Based Group

As well as its main Board, the Wiltshire Strategic Economic Partnership (WSEP) has a number of Advisory Groups that have been established to take forward specific areas of work on behalf of the Partnership. The Countryside and Land Based Group's main aims are as follows:

• Drive policy and strategy with regards to land-based and land management issues in Wiltshire, in line with Defra's Rural Strategy 2004, focussing on the economy, environment and social justice.
• Egage with, challenge and influence regional strategies and plans on behlaf of Wiltshire's rural business, farming and land-based interests.
• Provide specialist assessment of trends, opportunities and the impact of rural programmes for the rural economy, land-based sector.
• Develop strategies that support the work of education and training providers in providing key skills to the land-based sector.
• Identify duplication and gaps in delivery and recommend remedies.
• Provide a Wiltshire interface with the South West Rural Implementation Plan, the South West Sustainable Farming and Food Strategy, South West Chamber of Rural Enterprise and the delivery of the Rural Development Programme for England across Wiltshire.

Click here to download the Group's Terms of Reference.

 

The Group's current membership is as follows:

 

Chairman and Wiltshire Council	Councillor Toby Sturgis
Vice Chairman and SWCoRE	Tim Carson
Black Sheep Countryside Management	Simon Smart
British Horse Society	Robert Sullivan Tailyour
British Waterways	Andrew Stumpf
Business Link South West	Brian Gilder
Community First	Tim Coomer
Country Land and Business Assoication	Charlotte Sealy
Environment Agency	Chris Westcott
Farm Crisis Network	Anthony Matthew
Farmer	Gillian Swanton
Farmer, NFU	Denise Plummer
Farming and Countryside Education	Paul Hillard
Ginger Piggery	Caroline Wheatley-Hubbard
Great Western Community Forest	Patrick Norris
	Jonathan Wilshaw
Government Office for the South West	Helen Thompson
Kernon Countryside Consultants	Tony Kernon
Natural England	Charles Routh
NFU	Emma Woodhouse
Plain Action Local Action Group	John Dowsett
Rural Business Advisor	Ian Storey
South West Regional Development Agency	Sally Rackard
South West Rural Enterprise Gateway	Roger Smith
South West UK Brussels Office	Nick Brookes
Sowing Seeds Local Action Group	Sarah Watson
VisitWiltshire	Alun Williams
Wiltshire College, Lackham	Ian Revill
Wiltshire Council	Graham Harris
	Michael Hasted
	Garry King
	Tim Martienssen
	Stephen Morgan
	Melanie Pomeroy-Kellinger
	Sarah Simmonds
	Heather White
Wiltshire Council/Natural England	Helena Cave-Penney
Wiltshire Farmers Markets	Mark Stanton
Wiltshire Wildlife Trust	John Rattray