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• Funding evolution – We are proud of the changes already made to our funding pipelines and we would now like to expand this even further with longer term partnerships and community organisation involvement. This expands the strategy whereby Peer is now a proud and successful member of the Surrey Wellbeing Partnership. • External viewpoints - Reaching out to more creatives and starting different conversations with alternative view points, by actively engaging in conferences, looking to work in partnerships, meeting with other charities and employing a larger range of people. • Keeping focus on our mission - Always making a difference in the lives of our beneficiaries, employees, volunteers and the wider community.
REACHING FURTHER As we as a charity continue to grow we also began planning strategically to expand our future outreach offer to include: • Generation Guys – In response to requests from our partner SEN schools we began developing a Generation project for Autistic young men and young men with learning disabilities for delivery in 2022. • Peer Place - With our new tenancy of a building in central Woking agreed in Summer 2021, we began to develop our ideas for outreach practice in our new space which includes work with those with disabilities and those in receipt of free school meals for delivery in 2022/23.
Surrey Wellbeing Partnership Transforming emotional wellbeing and mental health support for Surrey’s children and young people.
partnership will implement the THRIVE framework, which is designed around putting the wants and needs of young people first and providing a greater choice of support available.
Peer Productions is very excited to be a part of the Surrey Wellbeing Partnership, which provides emotional wellbeing and mental health services for children, young people, parents and carers, and professionals across Surrey. This new venture brings together 13 charities to deliver the work, alongside the NHS, as MindWorks Surrey- including Barnardo’s, The East to West Trust, The Eikon Charity, Emerge, Learning Space, Leatherhead Youth Project, The Matrix Trust, The National Autistic Society, Peer Productions, Relate West Surrey, Step by Step Partnership Ltd, Surrey Care Trust and YMCA East Surrey.
A young person, aged 17, who currently accesses emotional wellbeing and mental health support in Surrey said: “This is great news. I think young people will now, hopefully, feel more confident in coming forward and asking for support knowing that they will be put first and listened to.”
Peer Productions is a key part of this new service as it is through our work that many young people will first find out about, and learn how to navigate, the new service. Peer Production believes that prevention and early intervention is key to helping young people make better choices and transform their lives. The SWP shares this belief and will play a key role in early support. It will focus on building relationships with children, young people and families, and strengthening links with the wider community to ensure that the emotional wellbeing and mental health needs of young people are met. The
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Peer’s founder and Artistic Director Nina Lemon said, “We are delighted to be included in this new alliance which will allow us to continue to develop innovative work to support young people’s mental health. This has been an important part of our work since we started in 2006 and, with the recent pandemic, young people’s need for support with mental health continues to escalate. We are excited to help to develop prevention and support services to meaningfully transform young people’s lives.”
