Become a Mentor

Mosaic’s mentors are all volunteers that want to make a difference to society. Mentoring can be very rewarding and helps to develop your personal and professional skills. By giving just a few hours of your time a month, you can make a real difference.

We will provide you with full training; access to a Lead Mentor; access to other mentors in your region; as well as a resource pack of materials to help you plan your mentoring sessions.

We provide recognition for mentors and supporters who make a significant contribution to our work - we call them Mosaic Heroes.

There are a range of mentor opportunities:

• Secondary school mentoring
• Enterprise Challenge mentoring
• Primary school mentoring
• Ex-offender mentoring

Provide support at work

There are also a number of other ways you or your company can contribute to our work

• Presentations
• Provide in-kind support
• Hosting World of Work visits
• Offering employment, internships or a work experience placement
• Support a Mosaic event

Secondary school mentoring

Can you mentor  a small group of students aged 11 -18 years  to raise their aspirations and provide them with the life skills to achieve?

Approximate commitment: 16 hours per academic year (2-3 sessions per term). 

For more information, download our:

Programme overview pack (PDF 242 KB)

Mentor information pack (PDF 275 KB)

Mentor Volunteer profile: Mentor (PDF 163 KB)

Mentor Volunteer profile: Lead Mentor (PDF 210 KB)

Mentor Resource Pack 2011-12 (PDF 3.9 MB)

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Apax-Mosaic Enterprise Challenge business mentoring

Could you bring key business concepts like cash flow and market share to life and support school teams to understand and excel in a business game? 

Approximate commitment: up to 3 hours across November- February.

For more information, download our:

Enterprise Challenge 2011/12 pack (PDF 826 KB)

Mentor information pack (PDF 928 KB)

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Primary school mentoring

Can you mentor girls aged 9-11 years old and their mothers, increase their confidence, raise their aspirations and encourage them to engage in their long-term education?

Approximate commitment: 2.5 hours per week for ten consecutive weeks

For more information, download our:

Programme overview pack (PDF 222 KB)

Mentor information pack (PDF 220 KB)

Mentor volunteer profiles: Mentor (PDF 154 KB)

Mentor volunteer profiles: Lead Mentor (PDF 167 KB)

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Ex-offender mentoring

Can you offer a young offender a one-to-one mentoring relationship for 12 months?

Approximate commitment:1-2 hours per month for 12 months

For more information, download our:

Mentor information pack (PDF 157 KB)

Mentor Volunteer job description (PDF 499 KB)

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Presentations

Can you inspire and motivate large groups of mixed ability students with an engaging speech?

Approximate commitment:3 hours per academic year

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Provide in-kind support

Can you provide access to meeting venues, secondees, in house design and printing services and consulnacy support? This helps us to maximise our impact whilst keeping our costs down.

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Offering World of Work visits

Open the doors of your workplace for up to half a day at least once each academic year? Groups of students being mentored would meet senior colleagues, tour the premises and gain an understanding of your industry through interactive activities.

For more information, download our information pack (PDF 265 KB).

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Offering employment, internships or a work experience placement

Can you provide employment, an internship or a work placements for the young people we support to give them  hands-on opportunity to understand the world of work?

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Support a Mosaic event

Would you or your company be able to sponsor one of the many events we hold such as one of our a prestigious award ceremony to celebrate the achievements of our young people and our mentors?

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