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Company Structure

Trustees
As a charitable company the SFP has a board of Trustees who are responsible for the SFP and make decision regarding its management and operation.

Advisory Group
The Advisory group consists of the members of the partnership, its role is to advise on operations and assist the SFP secretariat. It is also the main forum by which those bodies with statutory roles with regard to the management of the Solway meet to discuss issues and agree actions. The membership of the SFP is open to all and bodies can apply directly to the SFP if they wish to become members and sit on the Advisory Group. The Advisory group meets four times a year, with minutes from the most recent meetings made available in the download section of this website. The bodies currently represented on the Advisory group include: Allerdale Borough Council, Carlisle City Council, Natural England, Scottish Natural Heritage, Marine and Fisheries Agency, Solway Coast AONB, Scottish Water, Nith District Fisheries Board, Annan District Fisheries Board, The Crown Estate, Cumbria Sea Fisheries Committee, Cumbria County Council, Dumfries and Galloway Council, Copeland Borough Council, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, Associated British Ports, Scottish Coastal Forum, Environment Agency and Scottish Enterprise.

Working Group
The Working Group is a subset of the advisory group which meet independently to offer more day to day advice to the SFP Secretariat or to consider specific issues delegated by the Advisory group or Board of Trustees. The Working Group is comprised of representatives from Allerdale Borough Council, Carlisle City Council, Natural England, Scottish Natural Heritage, Dumfries and Galloway Council and the Environment Agency.

Secretariat
Currently Solway Firth Partnership consists of a Partnership Manager and Partnership Officer, and its Head office is based in Dumfries at the Crichton.

Conference
The SFP holds an annual conference each in conjunction with its AGM, this usually consist of a variety of topical presentations and workshops on theses of relevance to the work of the SFP and the Solway.   For more information please see our Diary Dates and Downloads pages.

Business Plan and Strategy
The operations of the SFP is primarily shaped by the Key deliverable listed in its Business Plan which is its operational mandate. The SFP produced a firth wide strategy through considerable consultation in 1998, actions from this now feed in to the SFP Business Plan.

Mailing List and News Letter

The SFP has an expansive mailing list which is free to join. The SFP sends its newsletter ‘Tidelines’ and notification of events around the Solway via its postal/electronic mailing list. ‘Tidelines’ is free to all and contains a variety of articles of interest, plus a list events and activities taking place around the Solway. Please contact us if you wish to receive Tidelines, or recent issues (since 2007) are available from our downloads page.