MENTORING PLUS BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET 

Toward providing one-to-one mentoring for young people aged 11-25 who are experiencing tough challenges in Bath and North East Somerset.

We aim to provide cooking sessions for local young people who have significant mental health issues. The sessions will allow them to eat healthy meals and give them the option to talk to us.

Primary Volunteer Mentoring

Providing external clinical supervision for practitioner staff to enhance retention, have a positive impact on well-being and improve their practice.

For training for the group's Volunteer Mentoring Practitioners in order to meet high demand for their mentoring programmes.

Core Funding

For staff costs for term time activity sessions for young people being mentored.

Build and strengthen capacity within fundraising in order to diversify and increase funds, alongside developing more connections with local organisations and groups.

The organisation will use the funding towards the core costs of Mentoring Plus’ Volunteer Mentoring Programme to help empower and inspire vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people ....more

The organisation will use the funding towards the core costs of Mentoring Plus’ Volunteer Mentoring Programme to help empower and inspire vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people across Bath and North East Somerset (BANES).

To recruit a finance administrator to strengthen infrastructure.

A mentoring programme for at risk and disadvantaged young people

Towards summer activities programme - to enable young people to have fun and meet peers face to face in a safe and fun environment.

refurbishment of security facilities for a charity supporting disavantaged youths in Somerset

towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of a Volunteer Mentoring Senior Practitioner at a project providing mentoring for children and young people in Bath and North Somerset.

Towards the salaries of the Executive Director and Fundraising Manager that are normally funded through unrestricted sources affected significantly by the covid pandemic.

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

A mentoring programme for at risk and disadvantaged young people

Grant to Mentoring Plus Ltd to support the organisation through COVID19

To support young people in urgent need of wellbeing support due to acute family difficulties during Covid-19 isolation and the immediate aftermath.

Mentoring for vulnerable young people

A project providing peer mentoring to young people.

The third year of a three-year award from the Henry Smith Charity towards a mentoring programme for vulnerable children and young people aged 7 to 21 in Bath and North East Somerset.

For the continuation of the youth club until the end of next year.

Toward the cost of employing a part time member of staff over one year, to assist the group's Community Development Manager with fundraising, outreach and volunteer recruitment.

This project will provide targeted youth club sessions for children and young people from low income families. The sessions will help to build positive relationships, improve their emotional ....more

This project will provide targeted youth club sessions for children and young people from low income families. The sessions will help to build positive relationships, improve their emotional wellbeing and reduce their risk taking behaviours.

Build social networks for women and girls The groups provide the girls with a unique opportunity to explore issues with one another. This has created really positive interaction: sharing of ....more

Build social networks for women and girls The groups provide the girls with a unique opportunity to explore issues with one another. This has created really positive interaction: sharing of perspectives between different ages, and a protective sense from older girls towards the younger. We have already seen a beneficial spillover outside of the group. One 14 year old, who was originally referred because of anxiety and as a victim of bullying, now provides informal peer mentoring to Y7 girls in her school. Participants also benefit from connections to supportive and enabling organisations. The coach from the She Rallies tennis event was inspired to offer one older girl to access a first-stage coaching training session and work experience supporting children's tennis sessions. Measurable outcomes: better relationships with peers, at home, and in the community; engagement with education or employment. Build skills & confidence The activity sessions also help girls to develop new skills and new-found confidence, which in turn lead to greater engagement with work and learning - another consistent impact we have observed. Outcomes from last year included choreographing a dance and performing to their friends and family; producing their own film about supporting vulnerable girls, and speaking on stage to 50 professionals at our conference. Measurable outcomes: increased confidence & self-esteem; engagement with education/employment; emotional literacy Health & well-being The Girls Group directly enhances health and well-being through its programme content. Topics explored in previous sessions include: body image, self-esteem, health, period poverty, women in the media, yoga and healthy cookery. Dance and tennis activities have supported girls to take part in physical activities that they may have avoided in other settings due to body image and confidence issues, and offered alternatives to social media engagement and computer gaming. Measurable outcomes: improvements in physical and emotional well-being.

Towards workshop and discussion sessions for girls in need of positive role models and mentoring in Bath and North East Somerset.

The second year of a three-year award from the Henry Smith Charity towards a mentoring programme for vulnerable children and young people aged 7 to 21 in Bath and North East Somerset.

Mentoring Plus Core Development

For young people to manage a charity pop-up shop in Bath.

For a project to recruit new mentors and increase the group's activities outside the city of Bath, particularly in Radstock and Keynsham.

Toward the cost of the group's Primary Mentoring Programme providing trained and supported mentors to children aged 7-11.

Our mentors need funds to enable local vulnerable and isolated young people to reconnect with the community through healthy activities.

The first year of a three-year award from the Henry Smith Charity towards a mentoring programme for vulnerable children and young people aged 7 to 21 in Bath and North East Somerset.

towards three years' continuation funding of a mentoring programme for vulnerable children and young people in Bath Somerset

Towards the costs of two groups of mentees to attend a residential at Jamie’s Farm.

To establish a group of young people within local primary schools to provide peer support and help improve transition to secondary school.

To support the delivery of a series of events and promotional content co-created with our young participants, to educate potential volunteers about mentoring and encourage them to sign up.

To engage at least 30 mentees aged 7 to 21 with gardening activities over the year.

Grant funded the development and launch of a new in-school mentoring programme called My Mentor enabling Mentoring Plus to scale its provision beyond the boundaries of its local authority area, for ....more

Grant funded the development and launch of a new in-school mentoring programme called My Mentor enabling Mentoring Plus to scale its provision beyond the boundaries of its local authority area, for the first time in its 18-year history.

Third year of a three year grant for a mentoring coordinator working with vulnerable young people at risk of offending.

towards three years' salary of a Mentoring Coordinator at a project working with vulnerable young people who are at risk of offending in Bath and north-east Somerset

Improve school attendance and engagement; and employment prospects broadening horizons and raising aspirations

the salary of a Volunteer Recruitment Co-ordinator