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At the beginning of the year the Peace Partners team - the trustees and volunteers - undertook an exercise to decide the objectives of the charity for 2026. This is a summary for supporters and anyone interested in our work of the activities which have been agreed, organised by the charity’s sub-team areas. The trustees have confirmed they are consistent with the charity’s aims as set out in its governance document. Note: In the summary ‘The Prem Rawat Foundation’, our key partner, is referred to as ‘TPRF’.  GOVERNANCE
To expand the trustee team, which has a vital role ensuring the charity’s clarity of purpose and financial and regulatory accountability SUPPORT FOR TPRF PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM To continue in the UK (the work undertaken in 2025) to: ● support the Teams delivering workshops to external groups ● support individuals who have internal connections with external groups/organisation ● work closely with TPRF to continue developing and supporting regional Teams through Facilitator Development Training for their members ● work more closely with regional Teams, any external group or partner organisation, to help and support them to introduce and deliver the workshops to individuals, groups and organisations ● recruit more members to the Outreach Team to help regional Teams, any external group, and partner organisations, to introduce and deliver the workshops in the UK SUPPORT FOR TPRF PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR HIGHER EDUCATION To support the work of the TPRF UK Team to: ● facilitate Peace Education Program for Higher Education virtual courses ● support the promotion of the course through contact and sharing information with those already interested and at Conferences ● share information about the latest developments with Educators that participated in pilot courses ● recruit volunteers able to present the programme to Educational Organisations ● research the interest and culture of students and young adults and what kind of media they are using, and develop promotional materials using TPRF guidelines FINANCE & FUNDRAISING (& HUMANITARIAN) ● Complete the training of the new Treasurer ● Refine the donations pages on the new website when ready ● Support TPRF Fundraisers throughout the year PARTNERSHIPS ● Recruit a volunteer Partnership Manager ● Explore further partnership possibilities, including the revival of previous partnerships SOCIAL MEDIA ● Expand content variety to increase engagement: short videos, carousels, reels, and interactive posts ● Streamline content planning: align posts with key UN/awareness dates and campaigns ● Support initiatives and partnerships through social media storytelling ● Maintain high-quality and consistent messaging across all platforms ● Grow audience reach and engagement using platform-specific strategies and community interaction ● Measure and optimise impact using engagement metrics, reach, and audience growth COMMUNICATIONS & WEBSITE ● In addition to periodic Newsflashes for individual topics, prepare Spring, Summer and Winter eBulletin mailings for supporters ● Complete the current website migration to the Drupal/Azure platform ● Continue the website pages content review and update to reflect Peace Partners’ current strategic aims ● Adopt a common content policy across comms platforms (mailings, website, social media) VOLUNTEERS ● Reach agreement with every volunteer on HR documents and implement them ● Engage with every volunteer with regular check-ins Thank You.
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● Update 2/4/26 - Peace Partners is hosting a virtual 10 week PEP workshops for participants new to the programme, and the planned virtual course for long term supporters has been rescheduled to start on April 30th. ● Peace Partners recently hosted two virtual 10 week PEP workshops, one for long-term supporters of the programme and one for participants new to the programme, both of which have just been completed. ● Further PEP facilitator training and refresher workshops are being supported. ● The outreach promotion strategy currently relies on word-of-mouth sharing; it is important to keep group sizes small for effective interaction during the course; a graphic designer has recently been invited to join the PEP outreach team to create posters. ● Peace Partners is also providing support to the team in the UK delivering the educational version of PEP, which is now called the TPRF Peace Education Programme for Higher Education. ● The team has been working in partnership with TPRF to refresh the PEP pages on our website pages, and this has now been completed successfully. The new pages are now live on the website and can be viewed here. ● Peace Partners September 21st International Peace Day promotions included a special newsflash in which the global success of the programme was celebrated. The review of our local efforts said “The team has supported and promoted efforts of TPRF volunteers to deliver the programme in the UK over a number of years, through financial support by donors, through the provision of equipment and facilities for in person and virtual versions of the workshop based course, and through outreach efforts to engage with partner organisations and individuals who may be interested.” ● Anyone can individually contact TPRF directly for information about both in person and virtual PEP courses which are available in communities in their countries, and they will be advised on the most appropriate courses. Peace Partners works closely with TPRF to present courses which are registered for in this way. The inquiry email address is [email protected]. Further information can be found here. Peace Partners has been able to provide a number of grants to the TPRF PEP initiative in Leeds, Yorkshire. One of the participants at the Leeds programme, Billa Nanra, returned to become an active facilitator himself, and has recently spoken to a leading probation and parole association about his transformative experience. Read his article about this on the TPRF website:  Volunteering Opportunities We are looking to expand our team of volunteers, who provide the essential - and invaluable - support needed for Peace Partners' work. We would welcome expressions of interest in the following vacancies: Finance Trustee
We are looking for a Finance Trustee. This is a new position created by splitting the formerly combined role of Trustee and Treasurer into two: Finance Trustee and Treasurer. This is an opportunity for the right person to help this small UK Charity play a key part in initiatives to help ordinary people pursue peace in their lives; Peace Partners works with like minded agencies in this capacity, both as a fund raising vehicle and in promoting and supporting the Peace Education Programme in the UK. Our main partner in this endeavour is the Prem Rawat Foundation, an international tax exempt non profit organisation, and the creator of the Peace Education programme.The Finance Trustee as the guardian of the Charity’s financial integrity has a key role in the decision making of the board, and supervision of the small finance team consisting of Treasurer, Bookkeeper and Donor Liaison Secretary; The post holder will have or need to develop a working grasp of Charity Law, online payment systems and our accounting software. We expect the successful candidate to have the willingness and capability to learn what is necessary in this regard. Thus we have planned a flexible induction period in which the new post holder will be supported and trained by the Treasurer. The post, like that of all Peace Partners Trustees, is of three years duration. To find out more about this you can contact David Hughes, [email protected]. Treasurer We are seeking a Treasurer. A new post as a result of splitting the Finance Trustee role into two. This is an opportunity for the right person to help this small UK Charity play a key part in initiatives to help ordinary people pursue peace in their lives; Peace Partners works with like minded agencies in this capacity, both as a fund raising vehicle and in promoting and supporting the Peace Education Programme in the UK. Our main partner in this endeavour is the Prem Rawat Foundation, an international tax exempt non profit organisation, and the creator of the Peace Education programme; Working with our Bookkeeping Clerk, the Treasurer is responsible to the Finance Trustee for ensuring that the Charity’s accounts are kept up to date with Xero accounting software. Supported by a relatively small number of loyal donors we have a turnover in the region of £10-15,000 in most years; The post holder will have or need to develop a working grasp of Charity Law, online payment systems and our accounting software. We expect the successful candidate to have the willingness and capability to learn what is necessary in this regard. Thus we have planned a flexible induction period in which the new post holder will be supported and trained by our acting Treasurer and Finance Trustee. To find out more about this you can contact the acting Treasurer Christopher Pease [email protected] or David Hughes [email protected]. |
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Peace Partners is a UK Registered Charity No. 1166456 Institute of Fundraising Organisational Membership No: Z1038713 Website last updated - 21 January 2026 |