Peace Partners celebrates National Lottery funding award

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​NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     ​​​​               
12th March 2019
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PEACE PARTNERS CHARITY WELCOMES LOTTERY FUNDING TO HELP WITH PEACE PROJECTS

Peace Partners charity is pleased to announce that it has received almost £10,000 of National Lottery funding for its Peace Education Project. 

The money will be used to work with community and youth organisations to run Peace Education Programme (PEP) workshops. The objectives of these interactive workshops are for participants to understand the possibility of personal peace, to become aware of their own inner resources such as hope and choice and to recognise their innate value. The themes of the workshops are: Peace, Appreciation, Inner Strength, Self-Awareness, Clarity, Understanding, Dignity, Choice, Hope and Contentment. 

The PEP has been running at Thameside Prison since 2015 and a frequent comment from course participants is that it should be more widely available.   “If I had known about this when I was younger, I might never have ended up here.”  Peace Partners wants to make the workshops available to individuals in the wider community irrespective of religion, age, gender, or any particular issues  they may be experiencing, eg. homelessness, imprisonment, poor mental health.  

Peace Partners aims to run at least 3 PEP courses (30 Workshops) partnering with other organisations,  including Celebrate Life Events who have recent experience in this area. There have been several community pilots of the PEP including the Sutton Adult Education College, Matthews Yard Community Centre, Croydon and the Angell Town Community Centre in Brixton “This is exactly the solution to the problem in our community.” (Mary - Angell Town Community Centre, Brixton) “Excellent programme, highly recommend it.” (Jacqueline - Angell Town Community Centre, Brixton). 

Juli Hammersley, Director of Peace Partners says: “We are absolutely delighted that the Lottery have awarded us these funds. This is excellent news for our charity, and will allow us to plan, deliver and expand the Peace Education Programme throughout the UK. We are very grateful to National Lottery Players for this award, which will help us to develop the scheme and reach more people. Peace Partners has been working closely with communities affected by gang violence in South London and this is an area where  we’d particularly like to facilitate and run the Peace Education Programme. I’d also like to appeal to members of the wider community, youth leaders and organisations working with vulnerable and community projects, to talk to us about becoming involved, and find out more about setting up this programme. The funding will enable us to create activities that will reach into communities and make a real difference to people’s lives".

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NOTES FOR EDITORS:

•  Peace Partners website is available at: www.peacepartners.co.uk
•  You can find our more about the PEP here: www.peacepartners.co.uk/peaceducationprogramme
•  The Angell Town PEP video is located at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y3OJODrcZs
• Peace Partners also works with The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) on a Food for People (FFP)   programme and works on humanitarian projects such as clean water and hygiene education for   affected communities.