Get your mentee where they want to be through boosting confidence and wellbeing, building lasting independence through goal-setting skills and connecting mentees with one or more community group that meets their needs.
Driven by highly trained, volunteer mentors, Unfold offers support that works for lasting change. We provide 1-2-1 mentoring for young people aged 10-25 and mothers with children aged 5+. We also run women's support groups. Our mentoring programmes are offered to individuals living within Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea and the surrounding boroughs and empower mentees to get where they want to be.
Your Role
Unfold are currently looking for volunteers who can mentor on either our Mentoring for Mothers programme or our Mentoring for Children and young people’s programme, both of which have an adaptive programme to support asylum seekers. Being trained in safeguarding, the person-centred approach, the growth mindset, mentoring and more, you will empower our mentees using a psychological approach to get them where they want to be, through achieving our aims of boosting confidence, building lasting independence and connecting mentees with 1 or more organisation.
You will:
Impact
By becoming a mentor with Unfold, you will be supporting those who often face exclusion. 85% of the families we support are single headed households led by a woman, 93% of our service users are from racialised groups, 60% of our referrals come from other supporting services and we have adapted our services to support Afghan evacuees and asylum seekers.
Commitment
We ask that mentors have three years of professional experience that they can impart onto our mentors. We ask that you are over 18 and that you can commit to an hour a week online, on the phone, or in person for 3-6 months. We will ask you for two references and we will process a DBS check for you.
These are the categories our service users ask for:
Mindfulness – “as a mentor you need to be open minded, you need to always be mindful about what your mentee is feeling so they don’t feel like they are forced, or the session is about you”
• Good listener – “asking good questions and being genuinely interested, so your mentee feels more welcome and cared for”
• Patient – “as a mentee, having a mentor can feel strict at first, and they might need some time before getting into the flow of sessions”
• Relatable – “understanding your mentees’ interests or experiences and being able to share your experiences with them”
From analysing impact over the last year, we can see our programme has a demonstrable positive impact on our service users:
