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Grandmentor - Volunteer Mentor
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Summary
Become part of an award-winning, inter-generational mentoring scheme to support young people who have faced adversity.Detailed description
The Grandmentors Project supports young people (16+) across Perth and Kinross who are on their journey to independence. They may be care experienced, or have faced other adversity, meaning that a confidential and trusted source of advice could open up new avenues for them.
We are looking for compassionate, patient and committed volunteers to become mentors for the young people referred to our project.
We provide a comprehensive onboarding and training process, and support our mentors throughout with dedicated project staff. The mentoring itself will normally last about 12 months, although this does vary.
Our mentors are normally aged 50+ but we are flexible in this. You don't need any particular experience to be a mentor, everyone can offer life experience and advice no matter what your background.
Grandmentors is all about empowering young people through positive relationships, aligning to “The Promise” that Scotland made to its care experienced population. Our young people are listened to, heard, and responded to. They benefit from meaningful support to boost mental & physical wellbeing, resilience, and confidence.
Grandmentors facilitate conversations around keeping well, coping strategies, self-care, and self-management. Each young person will develop goals to work on during their mentorship which can range from developing confidence, working on their employability or education, or learning how to budget, among many other things.
Please get in touch if you would like to know more or hear about the ongoing positive impact Grandmentors has across Perth and Kinross
What we will provide to volunteers
💸 Reimbursement of costs🤝 Extra supportAbout Volunteering Matters
We work with local partners, turning local knowledge and energy into action and progress. And because we are a national charity, we do this at scale.
Volunteers are at the heart of our work. They make a real difference on the issues they care about, from immediate responses to fostering long term change. We enable volunteers to use their local knowledge and life experiences and collectively we tackle complex issues.
Our focus in Perth and Kinross, Grandmentors, is an award-winning, inter-generational mentoring project for care experienced young people. The project operates in 15+ locations across the UK and launched for the first time in Perth and Kinross in 2022.
It is widely recognised that care-experienced young people are some of the most disadvantaged in society. Many are in care because they have experienced, or are at risk of, neglect and/or abuse. Security and stability are often missing from their lives.
We recruit, train and support volunteer mentors (normally but not exclusively aged 50+) who draw on their wealth of professional and personal life experience and skills to support young people (aged 16-25) through life transitions on their pathway to independence.