Mentoring for young people

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Mentoring for young people
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Defining Mentoring
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The Purpose of the Day

• To share knowledge and experience
• To hear about lessons from practice
• To encourage good practice
• To provide opportunities for
• practitioners to network

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The Presentations

• Recruiting retaining a diverse pool
• of volunteers
• Benchmarking your practice
• Monitoring and Evaluating
• Models of delivery

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Diversity
Valuing the richness diversity brings is
essential to the positive culture and success of
all organisations.
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Target Groups
Which groups are likely to experience exclusion
from volunteering and may need targeting as a
result?
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Excluded groups
Gender Unemployed Ex-offenders
BME Faith Young people LGBT
Disability Single parents Mental health
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Recruiting Diversity
Organisational website Faith groups Cultural
community groups Community groups
Specialist press Local radio/community
radio Local authority intranet/pay slips External
websites doit, gumtree
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Recruiting diversity
Mini cab cards Posters Outreach in local
shops/supermarkets Volunteer bureau Freshers
week Student unions Businesses that employ
larger numbers of men Recommend a friend
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Psychological Barriers
Public image Fear of over-commitment Lack of
confidence Access to services Others
attitudes Fear of losing welfare benefits
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Practical Barriers
Not knowing about volunteering opportunities Over
formal recruitment procedures Poor follow-up of
new recruits Physically inaccessible
environment Inability to meet costs

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Removing the Barriers
Believing in the ethos Publicising Building
relationships User-friendly recruitment Creating
an inclusive environment Diversity
training Retention
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Retaining Volunteers
Meeting their motivations Providing inspiring
tasks Valuing volunteers Asking them what they
want Providing support and ongoing
training Consistency of approach Good
communication
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