Would you like to give advice, increase confidence and provide a number of opportunities to a young person in Newport?
Would you want to help a young person’s future and career goals?
Would you want to get experience as mentor with a meaningful cause?
This October, One Million Mentors are setting up their 2nd year of mentoring programs doing just that in a number of secondary schools. These schools are:
St Joseph's High School (in - person)
Newport High School (in - person)
Bassaleg High School (in person) - starting on the 10th October (1:30pm - 3pm)
Llanwern High School - They have started but are looking for more mentors!
Caerleon High School - They started in June but are looking for more mentors!
What is 1MM?
1MM mentoring empowers young people to become the best version of themselves: building relationships - free of assumption and judgement - where they benefit from another’s experience and perspective and can think bigger, find their own answers and take the next meaningful step into their future.
They recruit, train and deploy volunteer mentors, matching them with mentees and providing high quality support to both so that they are well prepared and can have an effective and impactful mentoring relationship. Their mentoring is one to one, for young people aged 14-25 years old, for 1 hour, once a month, for up to a year.
All they ask of their volunteers is to sign up to their platform at www.1mm.org.uk complete some mandatory online training.
You can find more of what they do here: One Million Mentors
How do I get involved?
There are plenty of ways of how you can help but here is a step - by - step guide on how!
1. Sign up on their platform on www.1mm.org.uk. Sign up as a mentor.
3. Complete your Online Profile and Training - This will take approximately 1 hour
4. Attend a Mentor Induction Workshop (optional). After completing the training, you will be sent an invite for one of their monthly Mentor Induction Workshops. You can attend either before or after your first session.
5. They will match you with a Mentee. Once all training is completed and you have registered for a workshop they will match you to a mentee.
6. You will be in a school supporting a Young Person!
Socials: They are on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn to find out on the latest news and powerful stories that they encounter everyday at 1MM.
They also have their own podcasts to listen to! Here they discuss the mentoring journey from both mentors and mentees from 1MM!
These are in - person school programmes. This would mean that commitment to the programme is important in order to meet with your mentee. As this is a school programme, a timetable will also be created to ensure your mentor sessions are on school sites where teachers are available to supervise.
You can contact them for further information :-
Raman Purewal (the Programme Administrator for the Cardiff Capital Region): raman.purewal@1mm.org.uk
Richard Jones(the Head of Delivery of 1MM):richard.jones@1mm.org.uk