Brighter Tomorrow - Youth Mentoring

Youth Mix is offering one-to-one mentoring to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Our ambition is to help young people find their passion, identify steps to get there, provide resources to upskill and train them within their area of interest and increase their confidence and be a better version of themselves.

Our aim

Increase confidence for youths with disadvantage backgrounds to be self-sufficient through increasing their practical and soft skills that will help them with their day to day lives. 

Key deliverables

Provide one to one mentoring for disadvantaged young people. This will include: 

• Providing guidance to identify what is important to the young person and their future. 

• Providing formal paid training courses. 

• Signposting work experience for their specific areas of development. 

• Upskilling them with life skills that will help them with their day to day lives. 

• Supporting the individual for up to 12 months.

eligibility for using this service

The following criteria has been defined for the users of our mentoring programme: 

• Youths aged between 16-26; 

• Youths who are disadvantaged due to social, economic, or environmental challenges that hinder their development and opportunities. This includes factors like poverty, ethnic minority status or youths having involvement with the criminal justice system; 

• Youths who pose low risk to the public; and 

• Youths who want to be mentored, upskilled, coached and are open to advice*. 

*Please note that Youth Mix is unable to support young people with mental health issues as we do not have qualified therapists who are qualified to provide professional advice within this area. 

our mentoring programme will support young people by:

1. Giving them access to our volunteers/mentors who are DBS cleared and have received professional safeguarding, trauma and mentoring training.

2. Providing one-to-one mentoring at least twice a month (2 x1 hour sessions) until they achieve their goals, or a maximum of 12 months.

3. We will assess their current needs and gaps and help them confidently think about the future.

4. Put a plan in place with SMART goals with the ambition to reach their potential, find their passion, training towards their current goals and/or improve their life skills to become more confident and self sufficient.

5. We will provide tools and education to support their journey including training courses, work experience, learning key life skills e.g. budgeting, work etiquette, time management.

Please email hello@youthmix.org.uk if you are interested or want to know more.