Outside bodies
There are a number of organisations which are independent from the council, but have an impact on its service areas.
In order that the council can maintain effective partnerships with a number of these organisations, representatives of the council, usually elected councillors, sit on the various committees and forums that are responsible for them.
To find the contact details for the council’s representative on a particular outside body please follow the relevant link.
- A Better Crewkerne and District (ABCD)
- Ashton Windmill Management Committee
- Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Panel
- Axe Brue Internal Drainage Board
- Batscombe and Callow Quarries Liaison Group
- Blackdown Hills ANOB Partnership Management Group
- Blackdown Hills Joint Partnership Advisory Committee
- Brewhouse Theatre Board
- Bridgwater College Corporation
- Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival Committee
- Bridgwater Tidal Barrier Group
- Bridgwater Town Deal Board
- Bridgwater YMCA
- Bristol Water Challenge Panel
- Capita – Five Councils Joint Committee
- Carbon Management Board
- Chard and District Museum Society
- Chard Regeneration Programme Board
- Children and Young People's Mental Health and Psychological Wellbeing Group
- Coasstal Productivity Plan Strategy Group
- Community Accessible Transport Committee (Wincanton)
- Connecting Devon and Somerset
- Corporate Parenting Board
- County Councils Network
- County Councils Network Executive
- Cranbourne Chase ANOB
- Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Authority
- Devon and Somerset Metro Project
- Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service Panel
- Devon and the Severn Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority
- Dimmer Liaison Group (Viridor)
- EDF HPC Community Forum
- EDF HPC Transport Forum
- Exmoor National Park Authority
- Friends of Brides Mound
- Friends of Konigslutter
- Friends of Lisieux
- Glastonbury Town Deal Board
- Glastonbury Tribunal Ltd
- Great South West Board
- Hamp Community Association (Partnership)
- Harbour Board/Management Committee
- Heart of the South West Joint Committee
- Heart of the South West LEP Board
- Heart of the South West LEP Local Transport Board
- Henry Leigh Trust
- Henstridge Airfield Consultative Committee
- Hestercombe Gardens Trust
- Hinkley Point A and B Site Stakeholders Group
- Home Furniture Services Trust 'Furnitrust'
- Homes in Sedgemoor Board
- Huntspill Enterprise Zone Board
- Ile Youth Centre Management Committee (Ilminster)
- Ilminster Meeting House and Arts Centre
- Keyring Lettings Board of Directors
- Kings Fitness and Leisure Management Committee
- Langport Abattoir Liaison Group
- Local Government Association - Fire Service Forum
- Local Government Association General Assembly
- Local Government Association, Innovation and Improvement Board
- Local Government Association, Peoples and Places Board
- Management Committee of Broadlands
- Martock M3 Community Partnership
- MATA Regal Theatre Co Ltd
- Member Development Panel
- Mendip Citizens Advice
- Mendip Hills Area of Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership Committee
- Mendip Local Liaison Group for Quarries in East Mendips
- Mendip Quarries Advisory Group
- Mendip YMCA
- Minehead BID Board
- Minehead EYE Management Committee
- Minehead People and Place Partnership
- New Nuclear Local Authority Group (NNLAG)
- North Somerset Heritage Panel
- Nuclear Legacy Advisory Forum (NuLeAF)
- Octagon Theatre Redevelopment Project Board
- Parrett Drainage Board
- Partnership Committee of England and Wales for the civil enforcement of Bus Lanes Outside London
- Partnership Committee of England and Wales for the civil enforcement of Parking and Traffic Regulation Outside London – PATROL
- Passion for Somerset Board
- Peninsula Transport Board
- Port Liaison Committee
- Prowde's Educational Foundation
- Quantock Hills Partnership Advisory Committee
- Rural Services Network
- Safer Somerset Partnership
- Salisbury to Exeter Lineside Consortium of Local Authorities (SELCA)
- Sedgemoor Citizens Advice
- Sedgemoor Community Transport Board
- Severn Estuary Partnership
- Smokefree Somerset Alliance
- Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society (SANHS)
- Somerset Armed Forces Covenant Partnership
- Somerset Biodiversity Steering Group
- Somerset Buildings Preservation Trust
- Somerset Community Foundation - Hinkley Point Community Fund Panel
- Somerset Community Foundation HPC Panel
- Somerset Employment and Skills Steering Group (SESSG)
- Somerset Growth Board
- Somerset Homelessness Reduction Board
- Somerset Joint Committee for Voluntary Village Halls and Community Centres
- Somerset Local Access Forum
- Somerset Local Nature Partnership
- Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- Somerset Nuclear Energy Group
- Somerset Outdoor and Residential Learning Advisory Group
- Somerset Pensions Board
- Somerset Playing Fields Association
- Somerset Rivers Authority Board
- Somerset Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB)
- Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership
- Somerset Schools Forum
- Somerset Social Enterprise Loans Fund Panel
- Somerset Strategic Housing Partnership
- Somerset Water Management Partnership
- Somerset West Private Sector Housing Partnership
- South Somerset Citizens Advice
- South West Audit Partnership Members Board
- South West Councils
- South West Councils Employers Panel (SW Provincial Council)
- South West Heritage Trust
- Spark Somerset
- Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE)
- Stop Line Way Steering Group
- SWT Flood Group
- Tacchi-Morris Management Committee
- Taunton Aid in Sickness Fund
- Taunton Deane Bowling Club
- Taunton Deane District Citizens Advice
- Taunton Deane Domestic Abuse Forum
- Taunton Garden Town Cultural Forum
- Taunton Heritage Trust
- The Albemarle Centre
- The Exmoor Technology Hub
- Visit Exmoor Executive Board
- Visit Somerset
- Walpole Liaison Group
- Watchet Coastal Community Team
- Watchet Harbour Advisory Committee
- Wembdon Village Hall Trust
- Wessex Regional Flood and Coastal Defence Committee
- Wessex Water
- West Somerset Advice Bureau
- West Somerset Opportunity Area
- West Somerset Railway's Partnership Development Group
- Westfield Community Association
- Wilstock Hub
- Wincanton Regeneration Programme Board
- Yeovil Crematorium and Cemetery Joint Committee
- Yeovil in Bloom Gardeners Market Steering Group
- Yeovil Innovation Centre Funding Partners Group
- Yeovil One
- Yeovil Regeneration Programme Board