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Go! Youth Trust
- VO101353
We are looking for volunteers who are eager to make a difference in their own community by supporting young people to be their best through our award-winning Y Mentoring project. As a volunteer mentor you will regularly meet up with a young person offering a friendly ear, support and guidance and advice on making positive life choices. You will also build a relationship with the young person’s parents/guardians, although the focus is the young person. Full training, support and on-going supervision is offered by Go! Youth Trust.
As a mentor you will regularly meet up with the young person over a 12 month period. Mentors usually meet with their young person once per week for 6 months, then fortnightly for 3 months and 3-weekly/monthly for the last 3 months whilst working towards a positive ending. The sessions last between 1.5-2 hours and they focus on the interests and needs of the young person.
The first few months focus on building a relationship by engaging in new and familiar activities with on-going supervision and from your Project Coordinator. By engaging in conversations with your mentee you will support them to develop important life skills. You will play an important role in helping a young person achieve their full potential and build on their strengths.
This is a great opportunity to make a real difference, while also having fun and learning a lot!
Experience required
No experience required, just your enthusiasm.
Travel details
Initial weeks can be at the Go! Youth Trust youth centre or in the community around Falkirk. After this, all activity with your mentee will be within the Falkirk area and may change depending on is planned that week.
If you don't have a car, we can help you work around this.
Support
Training details
You will be offered mandatory and optional personal and professional development opportunities from our core mentor training to local and national wellbeing events (ranging from online mindfulness, dance classes and action planning sessions to in-person mentor pizza nights, sports activities and supervision). To support young people, we believe our mentors need to feel valued, supported and heard, there are various points where we will encourage your feedback to ensure our service is the very best.
Restrictions
Minimum age: 18
PVG is required however we will help provide this for you.
Availability
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Frequency & commitment
As we look to pair mentors with young people, we take into consideration both your availability and the mentees to ensure you are both available at the same time.Please fill out this form to register your interest in the opportunity Youth Mentor with Go! Youth Trust
Your email address and phone number will only be used by the organisation/TSI you are contacting to discuss in more detail the opportunity you are enquiring about.
Your details and message will be sent to:
Annabel Russell, Go! Youth Trust
Annabel Russell, Go! Youth Trust
Email address: hello@goyouthtrust.org.uk
Thank you for registering your interest in Youth Mentor with Go! Youth Trust.
Go! Youth Trust has been sent your details and message, they will respond to you at the email address you provided.
Something has gone wrong, please let us know about this issue at milosupport@scvo.scot quoting reference #VO101353.