Volunteer Mentor
ReachOut
Supporting young people in your community to grow in confidence and develop socio-emotional skills
Volunteering as a mentor provides a rewarding opportunity to make a difference to the lives of young people in your community – watching them grow in confidence and develop their socio-emotional skills as a result of your provision. Meet and work with like-minded people, your fellow mentors, as you support a small group of mentees within the group and help facilitate activities led by the Youth Development Lead. Our approach combines positive peer support with supportive adult role models, allowing us to have the most impact. Projects take place weekdays after school at our partner schools.
Befriending, Buddying & Mentoring,Community Work,Youth Work,Support Work,Employee & Group Volunteering
Reading & Writing
At ReachOut, our behaviours are being committed, compassionate, solution-focused and ambitious. These are particularly important behaviours for our mentors to display as role models to our young people! We encourage you to apply if you have shared lived experience with our young people or have previous experience working with children, but these are not requirements. Whilst previous experience can be beneficial to your mentoring, ReachOut can also be the perfect first step towards working in youth development or for anyone wanting to work on their personal growth and development. Full training is provided to allow you to excel as a mentor and develop your own skills!
A chance to gain valuable experience for your CV, whether you intend to work with young people or not. Mentoring can lead to a variety of career paths including education, youth and social work, counselling, training delivery and advice roles and non-profit sector like ReachOut! To develop soft skills that many employers look for such as communication, problem-solving, confidence, teamwork. The rewarding opportunity to witness young people’s growth and development from your support and role modelling An opportunity to give something back to your community To meet new people and have fun!
Our projects run for 2 hours a week over a period of 12 weeks during term-time, providing 24 hours of volunteering per project (plus around 3 hours of training). Each project has a regular weekday and time which will be made available for volunteers to choose their preferences from.
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Projects take place at our various partner schools across London. Volunteers will see the list of available projects during onboarding and can choose their preferences based on location and timing.
Partner schools typically have good transport links and travel expenses can be claimed up to £4/day.
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