Regional Advisory Boards

Working alongside each region’s full time colleagues, our boards help to:

• use local knowledge, ideas and capacity to build new relationships, so people can use and enjoy the waterways
• help us reach the diverse local communities that we serve
• translate national priorities into local initiatives
• gather and feedback to Trust colleagues on local priorities, opportunities and risks
• ‘open doors’ to local and regional structures and decision-makers across all sectors and help us grow our supporter base in the local community
• identify and trial new ways of delivering our ambitions and priorities

Across our regions, we have six advisory boards:

Meetings

Annual Public Meetings 

All the local boards hold annual public meetings, at which you are invited to put your questions. Again, check out the meetings diary for your board's next meeting. 

Governance handbook

The Governance handbook is designed to help everbody appreciate our governance and how to make it work most effectively.  

Regional advisory board governance

The chair of each advisory board sits on our main council. 

Regional Advisory Board Terms of Reference
Role profile for chairs
Role profile for members