Contribute to the new West Midlands Youth Mentoring Network

Share your thoughts about youth mentoring and join the new West Midlands Youth Mentoring Network

Our friends at Our Place Support CIC have been working alongside Birmingham City University, Barnardo’s and Liminal Education over recent years and have recently formed the new West Midlands Youth Mentoring Network.

One of the things they hope to achieve is an agreed definition of youth mentoring across the West Midlands. At the moment, mentoring can mean very different things to different people and organisations.

Our Place Support CIC and its network partners want to create a better understanding of what youth mentoring is and how it can support children and young people. They also hope this work will help shape future commissioning and funding decisions, so that mentoring services receive the right funding to deliver the support children and young people need.

The first step is to get the best possible understanding of the current youth mentoring sector across the West Midlands, including who is delivering mentoring, the different approaches being used and what support might be needed going forward.

You can be part of this by completing short survey to gather information from organisations and professionals delivering mentoring to children and young people across the region. There’s also the opportunity to sign up to the West Midlands Youth Mentoring Network at the end of the survey.

Visit and complete the survey here by Friday 6th November