The Prince’s Trust is the UK’s leading youth charity offering 13 to 30-year-olds opportunities to develop confidence, learn new skills, get into work and start businesses. The Prince’s Trust targets works with young people who have struggled at school, have been in care, are long-term unemployed or have been in trouble with the law.
What is mentoring?
For The Prince’s Trust, mentoring is “The provision of personal support, assistance, guidance, encouragement and inspiration to young people during and following our programmes, particularly at a time of transition and typically over a sustained period of time.”
The majority of young people we support are overcoming difficulties such as a record of offending, a life spent in care, long-term unemployment, having no qualifications, poor basic skills or little confidence. The role of a mentor working with these young people can therefore be highly rewarding as well as a varied challenge.