What You'll Do:
We’ve seen the positive impact on BAME young people when they have a mentor who they can relate to, who shares and understands their experience. With this relatability, you will support your mentee to help them to achieve and identify goals, supporting them to get to where they want to be, encouraging them to consider future options, and assist them in navigating barriers to inclusion. With the additional qualities of relatability and understanding, you will develop a trusting, supportive and non-judgemental relationship, by providing emotional, social and practical support to boost confidence and independence, supporting your mentee to make social connections with their local community, services or groups.

What You'll Learn?
Through our comprehensive training and ongoing support, you will develop skills in positive psychology and coaching style techniques to effectively support your mentee to making steps towards positive change, gaining transferable skills relevant for personal and professional development, this includes but is not limited to team working, empathetic leadership, organisation, growth mindset and adaptive communication styles and approaches.

Who We're Looking For?
You will need to be someone who is open minded, a good listener, patient and relatable, who welcomes supporting young people with a wide range of abilities from a range of diversities and who can commit to delivering mentoring sessions lasting 1–2-hours a week, over a period of up to 24 weekly sessions.

About Unfold
Main business: : Charities, NGOs and international development

Who are Unfold?

Delivered by amazing volunteers of all ages, backgrounds and a range of life experiences, Unfold offer mentoring programmes for lasting change, to empower communities in Westminster and the surrounding boroughs to get them to where they want to be. Our Womens Support Groups add to this, providing a stimulating, safe, fun and informal space.



Unfold Aims

In order to support in getting people to where they want to be, Unfold delivery is based on 3 clear aims:

Confidence: Based in positive psychology, our mentoring supports the development of a growth mindset to boost confidence and well-being.
Independence: Our mentees develop skills in setting goals, building lasting independence.
Connectedness: We aim to connect people to one more group, service or activity which meets their needs, to build lasting connections.


Your Impact

By becoming a mentor with Unfold, you will be contributing to supporting those who often face exclusion, this is because, although we are open to everyone, 85% of the families we support are single headed households led by a woman, 93% of our service users are from racialised groups, 60% of our referrals come from other supporting services and in the last 18 months, we expanded and adapted our services to support Afghan evacuees and asylum seekers.