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Bradford Vision

Formerly Bradford Congress (until September 2000)

PP Room 3.06, Bradford Telephone Exchange, Sharpe St., Bradford BD5 0QJ. Tel: 722675, Fax 720773.

Formerly; Yorkshire House, Westgate, Bradford BD1 2AU.

Website: http://www.bradfordvision.com

Chief Executive: Martin Garrett (appointed April 2001)

Acting Secretary: David Wilkinson (Bradford TEC)

Acting Executive: Tim Hindley (Bradford Breakthrough)

Notes:

Set up in March 1994, ostensibly as a mechanism for the Labour Council to work with the then Tory government. It justifies itself as "a cross-sector forum working within, and for, Bradford District." No formal powers or constitutional status, works through "partnership consensus" and "lead partner support".

Plans for "Restructuring" were put forward in December 1999 and approved.

Formal meetings are held 6 times a year. They are closed to the public. Ad Hoc committees and "Working groups" are set up as required. Following a campaign it was announced in September 2000 that the public would be given "access" to some of it's meetings (see "The End of Secrecy?")

So far its main focus has been in securing Single Regeneration Bid funding and Section 11 funding from central government. Set up the "Manningham riots commission" which achieved zilch.

The 1995 Annual report listed the annual revenues of the "partners" as:

Bradford Council - £402m; TEC - £15m; W.Y. Police - £31m; Bradford University - £58m; Bradford Health Authority - £204m; TOTAL - £710m.

 

Staff: 2.

Members:

Partner

Representative

Alternate

Advisor

Bradford Metropolitan Council

Ian Greenwood

Ian Stewart

Bradford Metropolitan Council

David Kennedy

Bradford Metropolitan Council

Margaret Eaton

Richard Wightman

Philip Robinson

Bradford & District TEC

Howard Bell

David Wilkinson

Mike Lowe

Bradford Chamber of Commerce

Judith Donovan

John Pennington

Sandy Needham

Bradford Breakthrough

Tim Hindley

Brian Burton

University of Bradford

Prof. C Bell

Colin Mellors

Bradford Health Authority

Joan Firth

Paul Smith

Ian Donnachie

West Yorkshire Police

David Richardson

Chief Supt Simon Wilsher

Bradford Trades Council

Sikander Mahmood

Mohammad Taj

Voluntary Sector

Dave Rogers

J Din

Further Education Sector

D. Hardaker

Jean McAlister

A Hodgson

Faith Communities

Manoj Joshi

Sher Azam

Philip Lewis

Raminder Singh

Government Office YH

Margaret Jackson

Don Stewart

Adeeba Malik

 

Former members:

West Yorkshire Police

M. Proctor

Bradford Chamber of Commerce

Derek Wood

Bradford Breakthrough

Jack Smith

Bradford Metropolitan Council

John Ryan (to 1998)

Bradford & District TEC

Judith Donovan (to 1998)

Bradford Chamber of Commerce

John Watson (to 1998)

University of Bradford

David Johns (to 1998)

University of Bradford

Brenda Costall (to 1998)

West Yorkshire Police

Stephen House (to 1998)

Voluntary Sector

Bhulla Singh (to 1998)

 

In same premises:

Working Groups:

Other Links:

Bradford Breakthrough


Updated: September 2000

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