The Promise Foundation deploys the resources of the local community to provide young people from disadvantaged homes with a one-to-one mentoring relationship, to help unlock their unique potential and to motivate and encourage the13-18-year-olds we work with, to help them make positive, informed choices about their future, whether in further education or employment. We promote their potential, offering them direction and broadening their horizons. By providing mentoring, advice, and training to young people from underprivileged backgrounds, we strive to tackle educational disadvantage.
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Promise Foundation offers one-to-one mentoring to teenagers from disadvantages homes. Working exclusively in schools, we deliver bespoke mentoring to targeted students using community volunteers. Each young person is matched to a mentor from a professional or business background and receives weekly sessions designed to unlock their unique potential and to provide support at a time when the decisions they take have long-term effects on their future.
Our mentoring motivates and encourages the 13–18 year-olds we work with, to help them make positive, informed choices about their future, whether in further education or employment. The underlying vision is to secure improved self-esteem and confidence, to ‘taste’ professional experiences which might not normally be available. We promote their potential, offering them direction and broadening their horizons.
Our mentors build relationships with their mentees and provide support in such areas as personal skills (resilience; responsibility; courage; confidence; maintaining hope) - communication (verbal; interview skills; being heard-written (applications; using social media; CVs) the bigger picture (making a difference; the role of the individual; creativity; communication).
Measured outcomes from these relationships also include, better academic achievement, increased work ethic, independent learning skills, meeting performance targets, self-esteem and confidence.
Mentors provide a much needed outside link from home and family. They help to 'open doors' and pathways to career choices and support self-esteem through networking for young people and giving access to connections and individuals who may be perceived as out of reach.
Our 'Skills Club' offers opportunities for the young people to attend actual or virtual motivational workshops, visits and hear best practice role model individuals, emphasising how they have broken through and successfully built their work despite their circumstance and background. Recent visits have included to St Catherine’s College Cambridge, and to the Master Chef recording studios.
We also offer small group tutoring in Maths and Sciences to mentees taking GCSEs, to complement their in-school learning.
Our mentoring programme runs every academic year from September to June.
