Pride in Fleetwood - £20m Funding - Chair of Panel

The following information is shared on behalf of Lorraine Beavers MP.

We are currently looking for a chair of the neighbourhood board who will oversee community consultation for the £20million funding we are receiving from the government for Fleetwood town centre.

If it sounds like a job for you, please send a 250-word expression of interest to the email address below by 9am on 17th November 2025, explaining why you’d love the role.

Interviews will be carried out on 20th November.

Upon submitting, you will receive more detailed information on the Pride in Fleetwood (Pride in Place) scheme and the role of the neighbourhood board. But the way this project is run really is up to the chair, so there’s a huge opportunity to be creative with this.

I understand this timeline is tight, but putting a chair in place is the first step towards delivering for Fleetwood, establishing a neighbourhood board that can get the wide-ranging and detailed community consultation underway.

We are looking to get the chair in place by the end of this month, who will then undertake a longer process to invite interest in taking a role on the board.

The chair of the board must:

• Live or work in Fleetwood.

• Have a strong understanding of the challenges our community face.

• Demonstrate a commitment to championing community voices.

• Be experienced in working with a board to deliver strategic goals.

The chair of the board will preferably have:

• Experience of working collaboratively with local people, community representatives, businesses, organisations, and local authorities.

• An understanding of co-production/co-design, and a strong commitment to

prioritising community voices.

• Established relationships with Fleetwood-based community members, organisations, businesses, charities & community representatives.

• Demonstrable experience of applying for and/or combining funding from private, public, & philanthropic funding streams.

These board roles, including chair, are voluntary so specific time commitments, frequency of meetings, involvement in public consultations, & work-load distribution will be decided collaboratively with the board once all members are in place.

Expressions of interest should be sent by 9am on Monday 17th November to

lorraine.beavers.mp@parliament.uk