The Peer Mentoring Programme is a FREE programme designed to assist community and voluntary groups across Rhondda Cynon Taf to gain valuable support and skills from mentors that have the experience needed to help them.
Peer Mentors are recruited from the community and voluntary sector in RCT and can support groups to address their needs. Examples include support with:
- Generating more income for projects and groups
- Becoming more sustainable
- Becoming more digitally inclusive
- Addressing climate change or helping with practical skills such as green and outdoor activities
- Planning allotments and growing
- ...and much more.
Peer mentoring can:
- Give your organisation the knowledge and skills it needs to thrive
- Save you money, as it’s a free way to add skills to your group
- Give you confidence that you’re on the right path, with a view from someone successful who’s done it before
Having received mentoring on creating a funding application, Danny Grehan of Friends of Tyn Y Bryn Skate Park said:
“After being so involved in the application, it was great to have an external pair of eyes read through the application and suggest things that, having been through the process, gave us an idea of what was needed in the application. This was an important intervention at exactly the right time and of exactly the right sort… It gave me an added positivity about our project and about our chances of success. Having Craig work with us on our application had boosted our confidence in our project and our application.”
The benefits of being a Peer Mentor include:
- Sharing knowledge and experience within the sector
- Sharing good practices
- Meeting new people
- Gaining funds for your organisation
You will be brought in at the right time to support a group or organisation’s development. You can choose how often and when to take on mentoring requests based on your own workload.
Natasha Burnell, Programme Manager at People in Work told us:
“In a nutshell peer-mentoring for me was being able to be the support for others, that I had missed myself, I’ve gained additional skills and knowledge that I’d never come across before as well as having an ‘insider’ view of better practices at other organisations. It has been an incredibly rewarding and interesting experience and I look forward to supporting more groups in the future.”
If you are interested in receiving mentoring or becoming a Peer Mentor, visit our website for more information: https://interlinkrct.org.uk/peer-mentoring-programme/