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Community, people and living 

The South Oxfordshire Partnership

The South Oxfordshire Partnership (SOP) is the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) for the district.  An LSP is a body that brings together the Council with other public service providers in the area and representatives of the business, voluntary and community sectors.   LSPs are based on local authority boundaries but do not provide services themselves. 

One of SOP's key roles is to produce a sustainable community strategy for South Oxfordshire. In South Oxfordshire, this strategy is called 'Our place, our future'. It sets out a shared vision and shared set of priorities for the district and includes:

  • a long term vision of a sustainable future for the area
  • a picture of what life in South Oxfordshire is like now, the key issues facing us and the priorities for action
  • the actions that partners are already taking, and the future plans that partners have put in place that will contribute to achieving the vision
  • areas where partners can add value by working together in partnership in order to deliver priorities
  • an explanation of SOP’s role in delivering the strategy and its contribution to achieving the strategy’s aims

SOP meets around four times a year and is made up of 12 members (five appointed and seven elected) plus up to two coopted members, from the public, voluntary, community and business sectors.  We are in the process of holding elections and this will be completed by February 2010

The Oxfordshire Partnership (OP) is the  Local Strategic Partnership for Oxfordshire and has produced Oxfordshire 2030: the sustainable community strategy for Oxfordshire

Please use the links in the menu on the right for:

  • Our place, our future
  • SOP's response to the South East England Partnership Board's (formally South East of England Regional Assembly) South East Plan
  • Annual Report on the Community Strategy (2004-09)
  • Rural Transport Review report - a SOP report that uses existing data and information about transport in the district to identify gaps in provision. The report contains an action plan, and progress against the actions will be reviewed twice a year.
  • VCS representatives nomination form and further information

Further SOP information: