Volunteer Mentor
Would you like to help a young person in your local community prosper? You’ve come to the right place! ReachOut are looking for volunteers to join us for 2 hours a week as a mentor to young people in need of a positive role model.
As a ReachOut mentor you will make a real difference to the lives of young people in your local community, you will watch them grow in social and academic confidence, develop their character and raise their aspirations.
You will be involved in one of our weekly after-school ReachOut Projects, working with either primary or secondary school students. Our sessions are fun and engaging, involving both group activities and one-to-one discussions. As a mentor you will be paired with a young person, who you will work with each week over the course of the school year, helping them to develop their character, exceed their goals and grow in confidence.
All of our projects start during the Autumn, each running for different lengths of time so that you can pick the type of project that best suits you! We run sessions from Monday through to Thursday across a range of locations within London. You can pick a project which runs in the afternoons or the evenings, so you will be sure to find something that fits in with your schedule. We do ask that you commit to the full duration of the project as this allows for the best mentee-mentor relationships to form and creates the strongest impact for our young people.
We think that you'll love volunteering with ReachOut for a whole range of reasons, it's a great opportunity to meet new people, learn new skills and make a real difference in the lives of young people.
Here is what some of our current mentors have loved about their time volunteering with us:
"It’s a brilliant place, the community is amazing, I feel like I’ve come into a family and been accepted and that’s before even meeting the children. It’s such a rewarding thing to do and you’re brought into a really loving community of everybody working together and no one trying to compete with each other. If you want a challenge, to take yourself out of your comfort zone and do something really rewarding this is a pretty good thing to do!"
"You made it really easy for me to fit in, which I sometimes have a hard time doing. Although it’s cliché, it was like a family and a community – it was amazing"
"It’s an incredible opportunity that if they have time in, they should take part in. Besides mentoring and breaking the daily routine, it’s a great way to meet new people. It’s a way to meet people and do work which is impactful and beneficial to the younger generation."
By volunteering with ReachOut you will have the opportunity to learn a whole range of new skills, including:
· Communication
· Confidence
· Teamwork
· Leadership
· Organisation
· Time management
· Activity lead
We think that everyone can get something out of volunteering with us, if you are keen to work with young people in your career it's a great way to gain hands-on classroom experience in a supportive environment. But you can also gain and develop skills which you can transfer into your studies or future work environments!
You don't need any experience to volunteer for ReachOut! We're just looking for enthusiastic, committed people who want to get involved and be positive role models to young people!
Before you begin volunteering with us we will ask you to attend an online training session, complete a DBS (that we organise) and submit references. Throughout your time volunteering you will also receive ongoing support. Each session is led by an experienced Project Leader who is always on hand to offer support and answer your queries.
