Please consider this an official invitation to a scoping seminar to end all scoping seminars.

A select group (including you?) of local authority and LSP individuals will come together to discuss these issues and contribute to the design of this important programme for the coming year and beyond, to make sure the programme will be as useful to you as it can possibly be.

It is very timely to begin this work now. Here are just some of the challenges we could work together on:

• the implications of restructuring of governance and public spending cuts on environmental activity;
• the myriad environmental targets and indicators that local authorities and LSPs are tasked with pursuing;
• the big picture issues such as reducing ecological footprint, adapting to demographic change, increasing the capacity of the environment to help address social issues like public health, education and inclusion.

We are also about to re-launch YHREF's very successful website on a new platform hosted by Yorkshire Futures, so it is a good time to review our advocacy priorities with the local agenda in mind.

To help us get this right, I would like to invite you to a scoping seminar on 19th November, where a select group of local authority and LSP individuals will come together to discuss these issues and contribute to the design of this important programme for the coming year and beyond, to make sure the programme will be as useful to you as it can possibly be.

The seminar will be organised and facilitated by Andrew Wood, former YHREF Co-ordinator who now runs his own consultancy, Green Empire Ltd.

Please contact Andrew directly to let him know whether you or a colleague will be attending this meeting, by emailing andrew@green-empire.co.uk by Friday 6 November.