Mentoring and Befriending
This Specialist Theme of the Good Practice Bank contains a number of links and resources to help volunteer-involving organisations running mentoring or befriending programmes.
You may also like to browse the general resources in the Good Practice Bank's Core Themes. They cover topics such as 'Equal Opportunities and Diversity', 'Protection and Safeguarding of Vulnerable Clients' and 'Creating Volunteer Roles'. Visit the Good Practice Bank index to find a full list of themes.
Overview
Articles
Examples, Samples and Templates
Real life examples
Please note that Volunteering England has not produced the 'real life example' documents listed directly above and is therefore unable to take responsibility for the content. Volunteering England and the organisations that contribute example documents to the Good Practice Bank can accept no responsibility for how they are used. They are presented as examples of good practice, but it is every volunteer-involving organisation's responsibility to ensure that their volunteers are safe, and that policies and procedures meet current legal requirements. For further information about the resources listed in the Good Practice Bank, please visit our 'top tips' page.
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Case Studies
Links
- The Mentoring and Befriending Foundation
Offers guidance, publications, training packs, a resource and research directory and "APS", a national award for good practice in mentoring and befriending
http://www.mandbf.org.uk
- What Can I Do?
A guide to volunteering in the criminal justice system, includes case studies on several mentoring schemes. Produced by PACT (Prison Advice and Care Trust) and the Churches Criminal Justice Forum
http://www.whatcanido.org.uk/
- Volunteer Solutions
Sells ready-made training outlines and resources to deliver training for volunteers. Pack 7 is called “Exits and Endings” and is particularly relevant to mentoring and befriending schemes.
http://www.volunteersolutions.org.uk/ - Goldstar Exemplar Programme
A national programme aiming to highlight good practice in working with volunteers from socially excluded groups. Many of the exemplar projects run mentoring and befriending schemes.
http://www.goldstar.org.uk/
Publications
Free publications
Priced publications
Share your experiences
The Good Practice Bank is growing steadily as more information is added to it. An important feature of the Bank is allowing users to share their documents with other volunteering organisations. We are particularly interested in receiving example policies or documents that you are happy to share with others. If we use your contribution, you could win a book on volunteering from our regular prize draw.
