Rye Town Council

Community Involvement



For a small town Rye boasts an impressive number and variety of community, sporting and voluntary organisations. There is something for every interest or need and there is no doubt that they are an integral and vibrant component of the life of the town. It is not unusual for Rye folk to be involved actively in up to half-a-dozen different local groups!

Rye Town Council recognises the valuable role these groups perform – as well as the need to engage, and work with the community at large and the smaller communities within it - and has therefore published a Community Engagement Statment of Intent.

Many councillors and staff are involved personally with local community and voluntary organisations. However, formally – in addition to organising public meetings as the need arises and publishing a newsletter and Annual Report – there are two main ways in which the Council engages with, and supports community groups and initiatives. It provides grants and appoints representatives (see below) to sit on a wide range of voluntary and public bodies.

Organisation/Committee

Representative

Action in Rural Sussex (Clerk)

Age Concern

Paul Osborne

Chamber of Commerce

Brian Elliott

Community Centre Association

John Izod*

Defend Our Coasts Granville Bantick

East Sussex Community Rail Partnership
(Marsh Link)

Mary Smith

East Sussex CC Liaison Committee (SLR)

Clerk, Granville Bantick, Paul Osborne, Frank Palmer, Sam Souster

Fair Trade Steering Group

Mary Smith

Marsh Link Action Group

Mary Smith[sub: Bernardine Fiddimore]

Rother Assoc of Parish & Town Councils

Mary Smith, John Breeds [sub: Clerk]

Rother crime & Anti Social Behaviour Meeting Brian Elliott

Rother DC Liaison Committee

Granville Bantick, Jo Kirkham, Frank Palmer, Sam Souster, David Wright; Clerk

Rye & District Council for Voluntary Service

(Jo Kirkham, Ian Potter)

Rye Farmers Market Lona Hall
Rye Fund - Local Panel (Clerk)

Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Management Committee

Frank Palmer (on behalf of The Mayor)

Rye HotCats

Brian Elliott

Rye in Bloom  [officially inactive]

Bernardine Fiddimore

Rye Local Action Team

Sonia Holmes

Rye Low Carbon Group Ian Potter, Clerk

Rye Marketing Group (Partnership)

Lorna Hall, David Wright [sub: Sam Souster]

Rye Network

(Jo Kirkham)

Rye Partnership Members Meetings

John Breeds, Shaun Rogers, vacancy

Safer Rother Partnership Sonia Holmes [sub: Brian Elliott]

Sports Hall Management

Sam Souster [sub: John Breeds]

Sussex Assoc of Parish & Town Councils Exec Comm (Clerk)

FIXED TERM/DETERMINED REPRESENTATION

Organisation/Committee

Representative/s

Cinque Ports Confederation Standing Committee

The Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Clerk

Harbour of Rye Advisory Committee

Sam Souster (30/09/2012)

Rye Art Gallery

John Breeds (5/2010 - and continuing)

Rye Grammar School Exhibition Foundation Governors

Jo Kirkham, Frank Palmer and the Mayor

( )    appointed independently but Councillor/Clerk has offered to report anything of interest to the Council.

*      Non-Councillor appointed by the Council