Partners

Steering Group membership

Penny Wakefield (Chair)	Director, Strategic Partnerships	NCC
Alan Given	Chief Executive	Crime & Drugs Partnership
Andrew Balchin	Chief Executive	One Nottingham
Andrew Morgan	Skills and Communities Director	EMDA
Anne Carswell	Director, Commissioning and Performance	NCC
Annemarie Shillito	Head of Global Corporate Responsibilies	Experian
Brian Ashley	Director, Community and Culture	NCC
Chris Langstaff	Chief Executive	NCH
Derek Martin	Director, Physical Regeneration in Neighbourhoods	NCC
Geoffrey Hibbert	Director, Housing Services	NCC
Grant Butterworth	Head of Planning transport & Intelligence Strategy	NCC
Helen Voce	Chief Executive	NCVS
Jean Pardoe	Chief Executive	Connexions
Lianne Taylor	Acting Director, Local Communities	NCC
Martin Gawith	Chief Executive	GNP
Matt Varley	Head of Performance and Policy	NCC
Michael Rich	Head of Partnership Policy	NCC
Nigel Jackson	Head of Economic Development	Learning & Skills Council
Roger Williams	Director of Partnerships and Health Improvements	PCT
Simon Green	Director, Economic Development	NCC
Tim Thorlby	Associate Director	SQW
Tom Stockwell	District Manager	Job Centre Plus

Policy and Research Group membership

Michael Rich	Chair, Performance and Strategy Group,	NCC
Alice Coleman	Minutes, Performance and Strategy Group,	NCC
Chris Read	Adult Services, Housing and Health,	NCC
Claire Richmond	Performance and Strategy Group,	NCC
David Kirkham		GNP
Eric Rennie	Environment and Regeneration,	NCC
Geoff Jenkins	Children’s Services,	NCC
Graham Gardner	Environment and Regeneration,	NCC
James Rhodes	Strategy Manager, Crime and Disorder,	CDP
Jeanelle de Gruchy		PCT
Karen Shaw	Environment and Regeneration,	NCC
Laura Denny	Environment and Regeneration,	NCC
Maggie Grimshaw		One Nottingham
Mick Dunn	Environment and Regeneration,	NCC
Sharan Jones	Adult Services, Housing and Health,	NCC
Steve Harrison	Community and Culture,	NCC
Jenny Eurge	Environment and Regeneration,	NCC
Rachel Sokal		Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
Dan Lucas	Adult Services, Housing and Health,	NCC

The engagement work used Appreciative Inquiry methodology. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is the study of what works well. It is a positive approach which looks at what people want more of, rather than focusing on gaps and problems.
The foundation material on which the questions were developed was derived from a range of sources including;

• The key themes that emerged from a ‘think tank’ of Nottingham’s key leaders across public, private, voluntary and community sectors
• The priorities determined from the Your Choice Your Voice events in 2006
• Information from the latest City Council Mori research