Peer-to-Peer Learning Opportunity for community organisations (RCOs) in East of England

After a successful pilot run of ‘The Peer-to-Peer’ Learning Scheme Project, which we made available for a local RCO in Suffolk, last year, The Basis Project in East of England is offering an opportunity to another RCO in the Eastern Region.

If you are a RCO based in this region and if you would like to learn from another RCO, or VCO, across the region (anywhere in East) you could apply to use this great opportunity finding another ‘Mentor Organisation’ and visit them, in order to learn directly from them on one-to-one level.

Not only we will pay for your travel expenses, during the four consecutive visiting meetings to the Mentor Organisation (at theirs premises), but also we will offer £100.00 to the ‘Mentor Organisation’ for the full day dedicated to you, the mentee, each time you visit them, thus making sure that the mentor organisation is going to dedicate proper time and energy while sharing with you their experience & good practice.

If you are not sure which organisation to select as a ‘mentor’ organisation, we can help you to find the right one, based on your organisational needs and objectives.
We have a long experience in matching-up different organisations for these occasions and reasons, for sharing and learning from each other’s strengths and, why not, for possible future partnership working together, among yourselves.

This is what the first mentee organisation – Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre in Suffolk, that took part on this piloting scheme last year reported after successfully participating on this project:
The ZWRC Director: “This experienced has enriched my practice and I have been able to form new and lasting relationships with peer organisations in London, who are doing similar work to what we are doing here in Ipswich.      It has been an extremely useful experience which is benefiting the women we represent.”

Don’t hesitate and waste this rare opportunity that can help you learn from another more experienced organisation that is similar to you!
This is also a fantastic opportunity for building bridges for future possible partnerships.

The selection of the winner ‘mentee organisation’ would be based on the level of need and the depth of disadvantage that your particular community organisation is facing, when it comes to resources available to you and luck of such opportunities to learn from other organisations in the region.

If you are interested contact Shpetim Alimeta at: shpetim.alimeta@refugeecouncil.org.uk

E-mail: odo.east@gmail.com

or Mob: 07908 952 405

by 25th July 2011 for a copy of the Application Form with guidelines.

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