{"id":15188,"date":"2021-01-20T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/?post_type=blog_post&#038;p=15188"},"modified":"2021-07-30T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T09:35:20","slug":"new-community-energy-peer-mentoring-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/news\/new-community-energy-peer-mentoring-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"New community energy peer mentoring programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new Next Generation Community Energy Peer Mentoring programme will support up to 40 community energy groups in England to help them share their learning and experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funded by Power to Change, the peer support programme will encourage shared learning in order to replicate business models and support genuinely sustainable, financially viable and innovative community businesses focused on environmental innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this first phase of the Next Generation Community Energy Peer Mentoring programme we are looking to recruit up to 10 mentoring organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working closely with Community Energy England and other community energy networks, the Next Generation programme is ensuring that all emerging materials, resources and learnings are made available to the whole community energy sector. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>How can I get involved?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are recruiting up to 10 community energy mentoring organisations to share your knowledge with a cohort of up to 4 other community energy groups. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To become a peer mentor, you will be:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From an established community energy group who has developed new innovative projects<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An individual, sole trader or consultant with specific community energy technology expertise<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From other organisations such as a local authority, parish council with expertise in the community energy sector<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a peer mentor, you will help to identify, share and tackle the wider challenges and opportunities in the community energy sector. You will help to make projects replicable and open source and avoid reinventing the wheel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Interested?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Head to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-generation.org.uk\/peer-mentoring\">Next Generation website<\/a>.\u00a0Applications open on 20 January 2021 and close on 15 February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could you support the next generation of community energy organisations by sharing your knowledge and experience? We are looking for passionate and enthusiastic community energy organisations to participate in a peer mentoring scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":12594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[340],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}