A core group of up to 60 people were closely involved in these discussions. It was important though to keep other people informed and for them to be able to make a contribution to the decisions being made. This was so the emerging Network was as representative as possible of groups and organisations in Blackpool. A conference was held in March to share the work of the planning group with a wider audience.Following this, an Implementation Group was formed to ensure that agreements reached were put into action. They named the Network and began the process of implementing other decisions. A number of task groups were formed to carry out more detailed work around communication and membership, capacity building, finance and monitoring and premises.All the work in these groups was done by smaller numbers of people who were accountable back for their work to the Implementation Group. In all, there were more than 150 people and organisations on the Network database and of these over 60 were regularly involved.