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Celebrating 5 years of intandem
Inspiring Scotland’s Head of Development and Partnership, Julia Abel, reflects upon the impact of intandem mentoring as the programme celebrates its fifth birthday. We all need consistent, trusting relationships. For young people who have care experience, these relationships can sometimes be lacking. The long-term presence of a trusted, supportive adult can make all the difference…
Read Moreintandem expand their team and help map mentoring to Keep the Promise
As part of our ongoing commitment to amplifying the voices of children and young people, intandem are taking action to Keep the Promise of the Independent Care Review. After a successful application to The Promise Partnership, we secured investment to recruit a Programme Development Intern to support the national mentoring programme, and are delighted to…
Read MoreRead intandem’s 2020/2021 report
We’re delighted to share our 2020/2021 report, which showcases the impact of intandem during an incredibly difficult year for everyone. With anxiety, loneliness and isolation at an all-time high during the pandemic, we knew it was more important than ever to ensure mentoring relationships could continue. Therefore, despite the challenges, intandem volunteer mentors, coordinators and…
Read MoreCould you be an intandem mentor?
New mentors sought to help young people across Scotland Scotland’s national mentoring programme for young people who are looked after at home has launched a new volunteer recruitment drive to meet increased demand for referrals. intandem, which matches young people with trained adult volunteer mentors, are anticipating intensified need for the programme across Scotland. While…
Read MoreMentoring adapts and continues
Mentoring adapts and continues We have been so impressed with the flexibility, creativity, and resilience of our intandem volunteer mentors, young people and charities over the past six months. After adapting quickly to weekly video or telephone calls, our young people, volunteers and coordinators have come up with lots of creative ways to continue relationships…
Read Moreintandem mentoring will continue during the coronavirus outbreak
In these challenging times, we want to make sure we stay in touch with our intandem community. We have transitioned our weekly mentoring to an online or telephone service to help keep everyone healthy during this period of social distancing. We recognise that many people will be anxious about families, friends and carers during this…
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