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The Wildlife Trust for Sheffield & Rotherham SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL Scrutiny Report 7 Report of: Simon Green, Executive Director Place ______________________________________________________________ Date: 1st June 2010 ______________________________________________________________ Subject: Sheffield City Council’s Relationship with Sheffield Wildlife Trust: Update & Progress Report ______________________________________________________________ Author of Report: Nigel Doar, Chief Executive, Sheffield Wildlife Trust Mary Bagley, Director of Parks & Countryside ______________________________________________________________ Summary: Sheffield Wildlife Trust (SWT) has worked closely with Sheffield City Council (SCC) for all of its 25 years, to protect and enhance Sheffield’s natural environment, to increase people’s awareness and understanding of it, and to provide opportunities for people to experience and enjoy it. SWT is one of SCC’s principal local partners in developing and delivering the recently adopted Green & Open Space Strategy – Sheffield’s Great Outdoors. As part of delivering that Strategy, in each of 2009/10 and 2010/11, SCC’s Parks & Countryside Service made a grant of £25,000 to SWT as part of an agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA). The grants have contributed vital match funding and additional capacity to an agreed programme of work that directly takes forward SCC’s corporate priorities to improve parks & open spaces, to raise aspiration and attainment and to improve public health. Work delivered under the SLA includes the management and maintenance of 9 nature reserves leased from SCC, the delivery of a number of land management works on other SCC-owned sites (as part of the Trust’s Living Don programme), the delivery of education and training programmes and the operation of an active volunteering programme, totalling about £1,000,000 in value over the two years (about a quarter of the total of SWT’s activity in 2009 to 2011). In 2010/11, SWT will continue to develop and deliver its contribution to Sheffield’s Green & Open Spaces Strategy, by participating in the Strategy’s Core Management Group and by delivering a number of outputs reported here. In particular, the Trust will work to secure Green Flag accreditation for the nature reserve at Wyming Brook, it will continue to engage the public in the management of Blacka Moor (and to integrate the management of Blacka Moor into a wider strategic approach linking to the Peak District’s Eastern Moors), it will continue to deliver youth engagement and 1 volunteering activities across Sheffield, and it will run a major public campaign to acquire Greno Woods as a public asset. ______________________________________________________________ Reasons for Recommendations The SLA and the operation of the partnership between SCC & SWT is an important part of the delivery of Sheffield’s Green & Open Space Strategy. It is necessary for the City Council to review its performance regularly, and to consider ways to improve the way the partnership works. Recommendations: Recommendations are to: Acknowledge the contents of the report and the many benefits to the people, economy and natural environment of Sheffield that result from the partnership between the Sheffield Wildlife Trust and Sheffield City Council. Note the cost effectiveness of the financial arrangements associated with this partnership. Endorse the substantive contents of this paper (concerning priority areas of work and strategic initiatives) as a basis for the Service Level Agreement between SWT and SCC, for 2010/11. Consider how the relationship between the Wildlife Trust and the City Council might beneficially be strengthened in future. ______________________________________________________________ Background Papers: None Category of Report: OPEN 2 PLACE DIRECTORATE REPORT TO THE CULTURE, ECONOMY & SUSTAINABILITY SCRUTINY AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT BOARD 1st June 2010 SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL & SHEFFIELD WILDLIFE TRUST: NATURAL PARTNERS 1 PURPOSE OF THE REPORT 1.1 The purpose of this report is to inform Members of the Culture, Economy & Sustainability Scrutiny & Policy Development Board of the work undertaken by Sheffield Wildlife Trust, in partnership with Sheffield City Council, and to prompt consideration of this partnership arrangement. 1.2 In particular, the report aims to: Explain the nature of the partnership between the City Council and the Wildlife Trust. Highlight some of the financial and operational arrangements relating to the partnership. Outline some highlights of the work enabled by this partnership, in the 2009/10 financial year. Set out some of the priority activities and areas of work that are planned for the 2010/11 financial year. Invite comment by members of the Culture, Economy & Sustainability Scrutiny & Policy Development Board on this partnership (its past activity, its current status and its future development). Provide an opportunity for the Culture, Economy & Sustainability Scrutiny & Policy Development Board to scrutinise the work undertaken by the Wildlife Trust in partnership with Sheffield City Council. 1. SUMMARY 1.1 Sheffield City Council has been working in close partnership with Sheffield Wildlife Trust (SWT) for 25 years, protecting and enhancing the City’s natural environment, increasing people’s awareness and understanding of it, and providing opportunities for people to experience and enjoy it. Due largely to the closeness of this relationship, over that time, SWT has grown from a very small community organisation delivering all its work through unpaid volunteers, to an organisation with nearly 5,000 members, employing 65 paid staff and both raising and spending around £2,000,000 per year on its activities, the vast majority of which contribute directly to the delivery of Sheffield’s City Strategy and the City Council’s Corporate Plan. 3 1.2 Since its establishment in 1985, SWT has worked to improve Sheffield’s natural environment and to bring the benefits of nature (improved mental and physical health, increased self-esteem and social cohesion, opportunities for learning and acquiring new skills, better economic prospects, regulation of temperature and water, recreation and leisure experiences) to its people. Part of this has involved working with Sheffield City Council and others to develop and deliver clear visions, forward- looking strategies and effective policies relating to nature, green and open spaces and Sheffield’s countryside. 1.3 In the 1980’s and 1990’s, the Trust helped to create and implement the Nature Conservation Strategy, the Parks Regeneration Strategy and Countryside Strategy. In the first decade of the 21st Century, it has contributed to the development and delivery of the Environment Strategy, Waterways Strategy, Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and Green & Open Space Strategy. These (and particularly the Green & Open Space Strategy) provide a focus for and framework to all that the Trust does in 2010. The Trust’s Chief Executive sits on the Steering Group for the Green & Open Spaces Strategy, on the Waterway Strategy Group and on the Climate Change Adaptation Group, all of which report to the Sheffield First Environment Board. 1.4 In 2009/10, SWT worked with SCC to complete Sheffield’s new 20-year vision and strategy for Sheffield’s Green & Open Spaces: Sheffield’s Great Outdoors, and at the same time, the Trust refined and focused its own Strategic Plan to clarify its future role in delivering the City’s Green & Open Spaces Strategy. SWT’s strategic vision is of an environment that is rich in wildlife and brings real benefits to everyone. It will bring this about by working with partners to create a Living Landscape for People and Wildlife. As part of a Regional process involving local authorities (including SCC), National Park Authorities, voluntary sector partners, Natural England, Environment Agency and Forestry Commission, SWT has led the agreement of a number of Living Landscapes in and around Sheffield, which are part of a regional (and national) network and will form the focus of the Trust’s work in future… the basis of its contribution to Sheffield’s Green & Open Spaces Strategy. A summary of the Trust’s new Strategic Plan is attached as Appendix 1. 1.5 In each of 2009/10 and 2010/11, SWT has been given a grant of £25,000 from Sheffield City Council’s Parks & Countryside Service, as part of a Service Level Agreement between the two organisations. The grant enables around £500,000 of activity by providing match-funding to other funding sources and by funding parts of the programme that are not covered from elsewhere. 1.6 The grant was (and is) made as a contribution to a wide programme of works that benefit the people of Sheffield by enhancing their natural environment, increasing their engagement with it and delivering opportunities for them to improve their health & wellbeing in a number of environment-related ways (local food growing, volunteering, natural play, natural exercise, etc). This programme of priority activities has been agreed within the framework of the Green & Open Spaces Strategy. 4 1.7 Currently agreed priorities for the partnership between SCC and SWT (from 2009 to 2011) are as follows: Improving Parks and Open Spaces: By supporting the revision and implementation of Sheffield’s Local Biodiversity Action Plan, the establishment, and operation of a Local Sites Partnership, the development and core management of Sheffield’s Green & Open Spaces Strategy, and the delivery of the Living Don Project. By managing and maintaining selected natural sites owned
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