Mosaic inspires young people from deprived communities to realise their talents and potential.

Founded by HRH The Prince of Wales in 2007, Mosaic’s mission is to create opportunities for young people of all backgrounds growing up in our most deprived communities, championed by Muslims and harnessing the power of positive thinking.  In doing so, we also aim to increase opportunities for understanding between people of different backgrounds.

We believe that positive aspirations are crucial for young people’s future success; what people aspire to do as a child is linked to what they do later in life and that low aspirations lead to poor academic attainment and professional achievement. For many young people an ‘aspirations-attainment gap’ is caused by a lack of information about how they can realise they ambitions, by too few role models and a lack of contacts in professional roles.

We believe that by linking young people with inspirational role models, this will help to boost their confidence, self-efficacy and long-term employability.  Our mentoring programmes are tailored to the needs of particular groups:

• Primary School students –our mentors inspire young girls and their mothers to pursue their education and consider the careers available to them.

• Secondary School students – group mentoring is supplemented with World of Work visits and exciting presentations.  Students also have access to our Enterprise Challenge competition, and an intensive programme for mentees demonstrating leadership potential.

• Young ex-offenders – one-to-one mentoring support is provided for those making the difficult transition from prison back to their communities, coupled with access to employability programmes.

Young people will succeed if they are supported by those who are already successful.

HRH The Prince of Wales, our founder, sets out his vision for Mosaic in the video below.