Mentoring 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 despite not being able to meet face to face.  Art and nature projects, dance moves, darts and treasure hunts have all featured. A huge proportion of our matches have successfully transitioned to meeting virtually to listen, share experiences, and try new activities and challenges each week.

The structure of a regular meet-up online has also helped our volunteers to stay motivated and connected during often difficult times.  Activity packs, fun competitions and pamper boxes have provided a welcome boost and when needed, more frequent contact by video or phone or post has made things more bearable. It has been challenging time for everyone, but from our survey of young people we know that having someone to talk to out with their immediate household has been a positive, practical help.

We continue to adapt intandem mentoring to enable young people to set new goals and achieve their potential.  If you would like to speak to an intandem coordinator about volunteering or being mentored, details of our 12 partners and their locations are listed below:

Local Authority	Organisation	Contact	Email	Phone
Aberdeen	Befriend a Child	Aleisha	aleisha@befriendachild.org.uk	07852 305816
Clacks.	Quarriers	Wendy	Wendy.woolfson@quarriers.org.uk	07531 193637
East Ayrshire	Barnardo’s	Kayleigh	kayleigh.christie@barnardos.org.uk	07834 106409
East Lothian	Move On	Angela	angela@moveon.org.uk	07787 256828
Edinburgh	Move On	Angela	angela@moveon.org.uk	07787 256828
	YMCA Edinburgh	Bruce	bruce@ymcaedinburgh.com	07715 208528
Falkirk	Quarriers	Wendy	Wendy.woolfson@quarriers.org.uk	07531 193637
Fife	Kirkcaldy YMCA	Jo	intandem@ymcakirkcaldy.co.uk	07788 982 866
Glasgow	Y People	Caroline/ Jerri	Caroline.McIntosh@ypeople.org.uk jerri.forrest@ypeople.org.uk	07794 383969 07384 515614
	Volunteer Glasgow	Steven	steven.dunn@volunteerglasgow.org	07468 863919
Highland	Action for Children	Sarah	Sarah.Sproul@actionforchildren.org.uk	07717 780465
Inverclyde	Aberlour	Brian	Brian.gallagher@aberlour.org.uk	07864 625063
Midlothian	Move On	Angela	angela@moveon.org.uk	07787 256828
North Ayrshire	Barnardo’s	Kayleigh	kayleigh.christie@barnardos.org.uk	07834 106409
North Lanarkshire	Y People	Caroline	Caroline.McIntosh@ypeople.org.uk	07794 383969
Renfrewshire	Aberlour	Brian	Brian.gallagher@aberlour.org.uk	07864 625063
South Ayrshire	Barnardo’s	Kayleigh	kayleigh.christie@barnardos.org.uk	07834 106409
South Lanarkshire	COVEY	Terri	t.young@coveybefriending.org.uk	07384 514486
Stirling	Quarriers	Wendy	Wendy.woolfson@quarriers.org.uk	07531 193637
West Dunbartonshire	Y Sort It	Lyndsey	lyndsey@ysortit.com	07852 147734
West Lothian	Move On	Angela	angela@moveon.org.uk	07787 256 828

If you have any questions about the national programme then please contact Susie or Debbie on 07860 272 261 or 07860 272 256. Email susie@inspiringscotland.org.uk or debbiez@inspiringscotland.org.uk