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Media Trust wins digital mentor bid

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Grabbed from David Wilcox on 18 Mar 09, last tagged on 23 Apr 09
<>Over on the digitalmentor blog Dave Briggs breaks the news that the contract for the Government’s £900,000 Digital Mentor programme has gone to the Media Trust.I’m personally disappointed it didn’t go to the Voicebox consortium who - as I wrote here - went to great efforts to run an open process </>... more

Back to Life

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Created by john_craig on 17 Apr 09, last edited on 23 Sep 09
Young men recovering from mental illness often lack the support networks they need.

Horsesmouth

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Created by john_craig on 17 Apr 09, last edited on 17 Apr 09
Too much wisdom is wasted. People with knowledge and experience are disconnected from those who need it.

Making the Case

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Created by john_craig on 17 Apr 09, last edited on 16 Mar 10
There are over 18,000 16-25 year olds in custody in the UK - an increase of more than a third in the past ten years. Two-thirds of these say that a mentor would help them to stop re-offending, particularly if the mentor were someone who themselves had broken the cycle of offending. However, while mentoring provision does exist, it is often duplicated and sporadic, and does not work to any minimum standards.

Cybermentors

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Created by john_craig on 17 Apr 09, last liked on 20 Apr 09
Over a million children and young people in the UK have been bullied in the last year. Increasingly, the problem of bullying does not just exist within schools. In 2006, a BeatBullying survey found 47% of young people have suffered some form of text, video, email or online bullying.

Commissioner mentors for third sector innovators

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Posted by perrie on 25 Sep 09, last tagged on 25 Sep 09
Earlier this year, Innovation Exchange set up mentoring relationships between two third sector innovators and two creative-thinking commissioners of public services. Our aim was to support professional learning between two … more

Heart of the City: Building Stronger Communities Through Business Collaboration

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Grabbed from Community Links on 24 Nov 09
CoSA Paper No.6 (produced in Partnership with Heart of the City)This paper sets out the learning that has been amassed from the successful development of the Heart of the City “Newcomers’ Programme” which is developing Corporate Responsibility programmes within smaller businesses in the City of L... more

Gatemate launches

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Posted by john_craig on 02 Feb 10, created on 02 Feb 10
Today, Princes Trust and their partners formally launch their Gatemate project in Manchester, followign the London launch last week.  The project aims to improve the coverage of mentoring and befriending … more