The Steering Group of the East Hampshire Community Partnership is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the Partnership and monitoring the success of its work. You can read about our formal responsibilities in our Terms of Reference on our Documents page.

Through consultation with our many partners we have derived our current Sustainable Community Strategy, which you can also look at on our Documents page. We have formed a number of sub-groups to tackle each specific priority area in the Strategy, and each of these sub-groups itself a Partnership of the relevant statutory and voluntary bodies in the District. The Steering Group is ensuring these sub-groups have the right membership, a clear programme of work and measurable targets and will be giving them every encouragement and assistance to achieve their objectives. You can follow the progress of each of these sub-groups on this website.

Following a review of the Partnership in early 2010 another layer was added to the Partnership structure bringing together the Chairs of all our sub-groups. This group meets five times per year in the same day as the Steering Group meets. The purpose of this group is to share successes, give support on issues and problems and to identify opportunities for joint sub-group working. Any key successes or problems discussed in this meeting are fed back to the Steering Group in the afternoon.  

Members of the Steering Group are drawn from a wide range of statutory and voluntary organisations working for the benefit of the District, who together with East Hampshire District Councillors and the Council's Community Team have a great knowledge of the District, its problems and its strengths. I believe we are an excellent example of Partnership Working. (Chris Leggett, former Chairman)

East Hants Community Partnership Chair: Nick Wilson

East Hants Community Partnership Vice-Chair: Faith Charnock-Wilson

Nick Wilson biography

Nick Wilson is an independent consultant with varied national and regional government experience. He has worked as a Director at the Government Office for the South East, at the Learning & Skills Council (LSC) in Surrey and in the Whitehall departments dealing with employment and education. At the LSC he was a member of the Surrey Local Strategic Partnership.

Nick has lived in Liss Forest for 14 years. Locally, he is a Trustee and Governor of Treloar's School and College for students with physical and complex disabilities and chairs its Strategic Development Committee. He is on the Policy and Strategy Committee of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) and is on the board of the South East Regional Forum on Ageing (SERFA).

Faith Charnock-Wilson biography

Faith is a career civil servant who has worked at the Department of Trade and Industry (now BIS) in London and latterly in this region. Since 1998 she has been at the Government Office for the South East, working on economic development and environmental and sustainability issues. 

Faith has a wealth of experience of working with Local Strategic Partnerships in the South East, much of which involves liaising with local authorities and their officials.

Faith has lived in Petersfield for some 15 years. She has an excellent understanding of the issues facing East Hampshire. She is a founder member and director of the East Hampshire Environment Network (EHEN), a community hub for groups, business and individuals in East Hampshire who want to take action and develop the district as a sustainable community.

Current members of the Steering Group include: 

• East Hampshire District Council
• Hampshire County Council
• East Hampshire Association of Town and Parish Councils
• Hampshire Constabulary
• Hampshire Primary Care Trust
• Community First East Hampshire
• Citizens Advice Bureaux
• East Hants Local Children's Partnerships
• East Hants Community Safety Partnership
• East Hants Health and Well-Being Partnership
• Business East Hants