Members are grouped into 3 sectors

• Cork City PPN is made up of members from 3 broad sectors or ‘Pillars’: Community & Voluntary; Social Inclusion; and Environmental
• When members join, they select which sector they wish to be a part of
• Those joining the Environmental sector must first be confirmed as eligible by The Environmental Pillar (www.environmentalpillar.ie)

PPN Plenary

• PPN Plenaries are regularly held (approx. 4 times per year), general meetings of the member organisations
• The Plenary is the main decision-making body of the PPN
• All policy, strategy, and operational work of the PPN flows from decisions made by the Plenary
• The Plenary is where periodic elections are held for Representatives and members of the Secretariat

The Secretariat is the organising body of the PPN

• It consists of 6 representatives that have been elected by the PPN Members at Plenary
• 2 spaces each are reserved from Community & Voluntary, Social Inclusion, and Environmental Sectors
• Decisions of the Plenary are implemented by the Secretariat
• The Secretariat oversees and directs the daily workings of the PPN

Linkage Groups are thematic sub-groups of the PPN that correspond directly to Council services

• They bring together PPN members that have either a remit or an interest in these services
• Linkage Groups provide a way for the PPN to work effectively to influence policies & decisions made on the Council’s decision-making bodies

Representatives

• The PPN has a number of representatives that have been elected to sit on the various decision making bodies in Cork City Council
• These elected reps represent the objectives and opinions agreed upon by the Linkage Groups and Plenary
• They sit on Cork City Council’s Strategic Policy Committees (SPC), Joint Policing Committee (JPC), LCDC (Local Community Development Committee), among others