The Learning Together Partnership

The Learning Together Partnership is a training group of 18 housing organisation based in the Greater Manchester area. The training is facilitated and delivered by PEP and its prime objective is “to provide high quality training to tenants, residents and staff working in the members’ areas of influence”.

The Partnership came into being in 2009, and last year delivered seven full day training conferences in a variety of venues across the region. In the annual report, the Project Manager; Nick Wigg, said “The Partnership has delivered a highly successful year’s training. Around 400 delegates received training and participated in development of ideas around topics such as; Tenant Monitoring, Value for Money and the New TSA Regulations.”

This year, most members have renewed their annual membership subscriptions and there are several new members considering joining the Partnership.

This year, the background topic is Best Practice. All the seminars will be drawing on the experience of members to find ways of sharing information on the best practice in six new topics, as follows: Financial Management, The Big Society, Value for Money, Community Safety, Involvement in Repairs Management, Tenant Involvement in Scrutiny. Members plan to play a more hands on role in the delivery of the training, providing staff from across the region, to bring good practice to the training room.

The Partnership have produced a new brochure that explains the programme and invites delegates to indentify the parts of the programme that they are interested in, at an early stage, to assist in planning future conferences.

The 2011/2012 programme starts at the Centre for Professional Development in Oldham in April 2011.

Manchester Learning Together Partnership

GMLTP is a group of 15 Social Landlords who have come together to share the cost of putting on meaningful training/capacity building session for our customers.

The group was born out of responding to an email from Nick Wigg (PEP) inviting Social Landlords in Manchester to work with PEP to develop a learning forum.

From this initial contact the group has developed and grown, now in its 2^nd year, we have held in excess of 10 sessions covering topics such as the Big Society, Mystery Shopping, Debt/Money Management, Value for Money (participatory budgeting) and find our customers really enjoy the sessions, not only for the knowledge they gain, but also the networking opportunity it gives them.

Graham Heslin,Customer Involvement Coordinator,Willow Park Housing Trust