Active Aberdeen

Chair: Gail Penman, Aberdeen City Council

The Remit

• Lead on the specific challenge area for the City, by maintaining an overview of all the partnerships, strategies and plans.
• Ensure that all stakeholders (including other relevant challenge forums) are regularly consulted on the challenge area, paying particular attention to consulting with communities and Communities of Interest.
• Be responsible for the delivery of the targets and actions in the Community Plan relating to their challenge area.
• Report regularly to The Aberdeen City Alliance on activity, progress towards targets and the development of new targets and actions.

The Forum

The Active Aberdeen Forum meets five times a year to determine how identified strategic performance indicators can be measured and to keep abreast of new national and local strategies and developments. The Forum directly reports to The Aberdeen City Alliance and Lead Officers Group.

This Forum also fulfils the role of Aberdeen’s Sport 21 Forum, which is Scotland’s national strategy. A review of the Active Aberdeen 2003–07 strategy was carried out.

Partnership Working

Support in kind is given from partner organisations in terms of provision of venues and administration for meetings.  Regular meetings are held in a variety of sports facility settings with opportunities for informal networking.