Women Side by Side (360G-cabinetoffice-GA-199124)

The Pollinator Peer Project aims to provide increased availability and facilitation of peer support both group and individual within the Sunflower Womens Centre, Plymouth.At the heart of this project will be the provision of effective mental health peer support delivered for and by women, known as Pollinators, who have experience of multiple disadvantage through their backgrounds of addiction, repeated child removals, childhood, domestic and sexual abuse and / or offending.The Project Manager will recruit and train Pollinators peer leaders who will be given the resources, supervision and support to carry out their roles effectively. They will help provide a safe place for women to use their shared experiences to give and receive support from each other, helping to develop effective, two-way meaningful relationships. Pollinators will be empowered to identify peer mentees, map existing provision and help fertilise and grow further peer support to effectively meet the needs of the growing number of women supported by the centre.The Pollinator Peer Project builds on the SWCs experience of peer support which women find a major lifeline.Through recruiting and upskilling Pollinators, the mental health peer support will grow and flourish to become self-sustaining, supporting more than 200 women every year from across Plymouth or who have relocated to Plymouth.