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Mentor Young People

About the Project

The Buddy Plus+ Project recruits and trains volunteer mentors to work with Young People, between the ages of 8 and 18, at risk of social and educational exclusion and of committing anti-social or offending behaviour and support them with literacy, numeracy and life skills.

This project aims to:-

1. Improve a young person’s self-esteem through a positive relationship with a mentor.
2. Improve a young person’s basic literacy, numeracy and life skills.
3. Build a young person’s confidence through achievement.
4. Provide positive role models for young people.
5. Empower a young person.
6. Reduce the potential of offending behaviour.

Young people who are not succeeding at school are at a much greater risk of social exclusion and engaging in offending behaviour than those who are succeeding.

65% of young people attending a youth court have either been excluded from school or are regular truants, many have poor basic skills in literacy and numeracy.

Read more about the training involved.

Find out how to become a volunteer mentor.

Read J’s Story “J was in a lot of trouble.  He’d fallen out with his parents, given up going to school and got in with a bad crowd.  Life was going downhill fast …”

The Buddy Plus+ Volunteer Mentoring Project works in partnership with the Derbyshire Youth Offending Service (YOS) and the Children in Care Education Service.

Buddy Plus+ volunteer mentoring project showcased at Westminster