Twinning with Palestine Conference - Palestine April 2007

The next twinning visit to Palestine is being organised jointly with the Holy Land Trust, which we expect to be a good partnership. The HLT are experienced tour operators and the Palestinian twinning network will make the visit to each place very relevant to twinning campaigns in particular, with local twinning groups helping to organise the visits.

We are repeating our successful formula - structured visits around Palestine followed by a twinning conference (this time in Ramallah) and then time with your twinning partner. This provides an excellent chance to build the twinning network and compare notes with people from other parts of Britain as well as to get to know your own twinning partner better.

Visits are the life-blood of a twinning campaign - is someone from your twinning campaign able to go?

We need to know as soon as possible - and so do they in Palestine. We will be organising at least one meeting before leaving.

This time we are also able to let individuals join part of the tour or visits to Human Rights groups.

Costs / Itinerary (download booking form - Word doc)

Please tick as appropriate	PLEASE BOOK ME…		Price
	Whole twinning visit 31^st March to morning of 6^th April –	£340 (does not include flights)
	Whole twinning visit - I AM A FULL TIME STUDENT	£330
	South of the West Bank days only (31^st March to morning of 3^rd April Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Hebron)	£220
	North of the West Bank days only (3^rd April 31^st March to morning of 6^th April) (Nablus, Jenin, Ramallah including twinning conference on 5^th April)	£170
	Day ticket for the Twinning with Palestine conference in Ramallah on 5^th April 2007 (includes coffee and lunch)	COST £20
	Accommodation (where not included in above) – Please make sure all dates are clearly written:
	In shared double (give dates)	£20 per night
	In single room (give dates)	£30 per night
(Please make cheques to Britain Palestine Twinning Network)		TOTAL ENCLOSED

Detailed intinerary

Draft programme for the Twinning Conference in Ramallah

DRAFT programme for twinning conference in Ramallah, Thursday 5th April
Main theme for today – Firming up the twinning network, working with people from many different parties and groups, not just one group
Registration

Opening session: The background to twinning and the context for today's conference

· Chair opens

· Janet Michael - Welcome to Ramallah etc.

· Speaker from National and Islamic parties - The current political situation in Palestine

· Rep of Palestinian Twinning Committee - the developments since the first conference, urgent questions for the day from Palestinian perspective

· Rep of Britain Palestine Twinning Network - the developments since the first conference, urgent questions for the day from British twinning perspective & Launch competition for a new logo for the Twinning Network

· Discussion

Tea/ coffee break

Session two: Practical twinning workshops

· Making a twinning campaign work, to help new and smaller groups

· Women and twinning

· Working with schools

· Student twinning

· Working with faith groups

· Money raising issues

· Working with people from different parties

Brief plenary : Headlines from workshops

LUNCH