Common Ground Meetings
Common Ground meetings are relaxed, informal, friendly, informative, stimulating challenging discussions & are central to making us a strong, inclusive, dynamic network. Share your knowledge and learn from the experiences of others.
Befriending Networks provides Common Ground meetings so that befriending staff or committee members can meet others involved in befriending projects locally, discuss and explore topical issues around befriending, and contribute to good practice in befriending at a national level.
Common Ground Meetings around the country feature the same agenda items, but also allow time for local issues to be raised. At the end of each series of Common Ground Meetings, we produce comprehensive notes-so you can find out what other befriending projects across the country have been talking about!
Common Ground Meetings take place in March, June and November.
Details are sent to members a few weeks in advance. Meetings are held in Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow, Dundee, Galashiels and Aberdeen. In addition we take one meeting to a different location with each round of meetings and hold a teleconference for those unable to attend meetings.
Each meeting covers 2 best practice discussion topics and notes are then compiled from the round of meetings and distributed to all members.
Agenda
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| 30 Jan | Monday 30th January 2012 11am - 1pm Erin Room, Blackfriar's Development Centre, North Port, Perth PH1 5LU |
| 30 Jan | Monday 30th January 2012 2pm - 4pm South Ayrshire Befriending Project, 4a Citadel Place, Ayr KA7 1JN |
| 31 Jan | Tuesday 31st January 2012 10am - 12 noon Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland, 3rd Floor, Roseberry House, 9 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 5EZ |
| 31 Jan | Tuesday 31st January 2012 11am - 1pm Epilepsy Connections, 100 Wellington Street, Glasgow G2 6DH |
| 31 Jan | Tuesday 31st January 2012 11am - 1pm Dundee Voluntary Action, 10 Constitution Road, Dundee DD1 1LL |
| 01 Feb | Wednesday 1st February 2012 11am - 1pm Befriend a Child, 9 Bon Accord Square, Aberdeen AB11 6DJ |
| 02 Feb | Thursday 2nd February 2012 10am - 12 noon FDMD, The Victoria Centre, 173 Victoria Road, Falkirk FK2 7AU |
| 02 Feb | Thursday 2nd February 2012 3pm - 5pm York Mind, Highcliffe House, Highcliffe Court, York YO30 6BP |
| 03 Feb | Friday 3rd February 2012 11am - 1pm Age UK Newcastle, 5th Floor, Hadrian House, Higham Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AF |
| 03 Feb | Friday 3rd February 2012 11am - 1pm Befrienders Highland, 2nd Floor, 19 Church Street, Inverness IV1 1DY |
| 08 Feb | Wednesday 8th February 2012 2pm - 4pm Health in Mind, 40 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh EH2 4RT |
| 10 Feb | Friday 10th February 2012 10am - 12 noon Teleconference |
If you're not a member of Befriending Networks and you would like to attend a Common Ground Meeting, please email susan@befriending.co.uk.
Testimonials from previous clients
“The common ground meetings are an invaluable support to us. Working for a small, independent project, we only have each other to bounce ideas off and it's great to network with others and share ideas, discuss good practice and learn from BNS experience. It's also really good to hear what's happening locally.”
Download Meeting Notes
Download the latest meeting notes here:
- 1:1 Volunteer Training and Dependency
- Advertising for Befrienders
- Advertising for Befrienders
- Advertising For Befrienders
- Befriendee Reviews
- Befriendee Reviews
- Befriendees Reviews
- Befriender Agreements - Discussion Notes
- Befrienders Supervision
- Being Part of a Befriendee's Care Package AND Evaluating the Impact of Befriending
- Boundaries and Safety in Befriending
- Boundaries and Safety in Befriending
- Boundaries of Involving Others
- Boundaries of Involving Others/Third Parties in Befriending
- Boundaries Training
- Common Ground Meeting Notes: Role of a Befriender and Lone Working
- Communication and Listening Skills
- Communication and Listening Skills
- Confidentiality
- Confidentiality
- Counselling Out
- Counselling Out
- Discrimination/Publicity - Discussion Notes
- Endings and Length of Relationships - Discussion Notes
- Equal Opportunities
- Equal Opportunities
- Evaluating the Impact
- Getting the Right Referrals
- Getting the Right Referrals
- Groupwork in Befriending AND Waiting List Management
- Information and Preparation for Befriendees
- Information and Preparation for Befrienders
- Interviewing Befrienders
- Interviewing Befrienders - Discussion Notes
- Length of Relationships and Endings
- Length of Relationships and Endings
- Lone Working
- Lone Working
- Lone Working - Discussion Notes
- Matching
- Matching
- Matching - Discussion Notes
- Matching Issues
- Matching Issues
- Motivating Befrienders AND Empowering Clients
- Police Checks
- Profile Raising
- Profile-Raising
- Profile-Raising - Discussion Notes
- Publicity
- Record Keeping
- Record-Keeping
- Record-keeping in Befriending - Discussion Notes
- Recruiting Male Befrienders AND Befriending from a Befriendee's Point of View
- Recruitment Ideas
- Recruitment Ideas - Discussion Notes
- Retaining Befrienders
- Retaining Befrienders
- Retaining Befrienders - Discussion Notes
- Role of a Befriender
- Role of A Befriender
- Role of a Befriender - Discussion Notes
- Safety in Befriending
- Safety in Befriending
- Safety in Befriending - Discussion Notes
- Supervising and Supporting Befrienders - Discussion Notes
- Supporting and Supervising Befrienders
- Third Parties/Boundaries of Involving Others in Befriending
- Timescale of Befriending Relationships AND Are Good Befrienders Born or Made
- Training in Befriending
- Volunteer Agreements
- Volunteer Agreements
- Volunteer Development and Endings
- Waiting List Management AND Groupwork in Befriending
- View all meeting notes
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Is there a topic that you'd like to discuss in a Common Ground Meeting? Let us know – email your suggestions to susan@befriending.co.uk.
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