PROMISE WORKS LIMITED

To support mentors helping young people in a variety of activities such as swimming lessons, youth theatre sessions, dance lessons, paddleboarding, scouting, and woodland craft.

Core costs

Business development, including recruiting a general manager to supervise staff and volunteers while growing the charity

Training new volunteer mentors to support young people on the edge of care

The organisation will use the funding to recruit train and support volunteers to provide long-term mentoring to disadvantaged children and young people in Somerset.

Grant to Promise Works Limited (operating as PROMISEworks)

Mentoring for disadvantaged children and their families in Mendip

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

Core running costs of a mentoring service for young people on the edge of care

Contribution towards core running costs

Mentoring vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people in Bridgwater

Our volunteers slowly build a trusted relationship with their mentee. Gradually, they help to improve the life and life prospects of their young person, no two mentor-mentee relationships are the ....more

Our volunteers slowly build a trusted relationship with their mentee. Gradually, they help to improve the life and life prospects of their young person, no two mentor-mentee relationships are the same. In the safe space provided by their mentor, a young person is able to explore new ideas and new options for themselves. This may begin with what may seem, on the face of it, to be very small triumphs such as using public transport or eating in public for the first time. It may involve the development of practical skills such as volunteering together to support a charitable cause or joining a sports club. The mentor may act as the young person's supporter and advocate in difficult situations at home, in school, employment or with the authorities eg the police. Throughout, the mentor offers the praise and encouragement so often lacking in lives that have only seen criticism and sanction. During all of these interactions, as well as providing practical help and support, the mentor is teaching by example. We know that the model works because the most important critics tell us that it does - the children themselves. In a recent academic assessment of the programme, Prof Rudi Dallos (Plymouth University) interviewed a sample of mentees and concluded ...the benefits of mentoring were impressive and clearly indicated a need for the PROMISE scheme. See Annex 2 - Executive Summary of Academic Research

Volunteer mentoring scheme for vulnerable girls

Start-up costs for mentoring service

Promise Works supports mentoring for 150 young people in Somerset who are in or have recently left care. It funds the expenses of the individual volunteer mentors who work with the young people for ....more

Promise Works supports mentoring for 150 young people in Somerset who are in or have recently left care. It funds the expenses of the individual volunteer mentors who work with the young people for at least 2 years. The bid is for the volunteer expenses.