Volunteer Mentors for Women

Mentors for Women provide emotional, social and practical support to women with children aged 5+
As a mentor you will: 

• Empower women to identify changes they wish to make and goals they wish to achieve. 
• Over 12 to 24 weekly sessions, offer coaching style support to women to help them achieve their goals and get them where they want to be. 
• Provide a listening ear and talk thorough the challenges women face. 
• Support women to make social connections with their local community or groups, refer and signpost them to other organisations providing more specialist support if needed.

What impact will this have?

• Your mentoring will help women break cycles of social isolation, improve family cohesion, and wellbeing by providing support in a wide range of issues.
• By being part of the Unfold mentor family you will be helping us to have greater reach in making a positive impact in the lives of many vulnerable families and young people, living in Westminster.

Commitment:  In addition to delivery your mentoring sessionsns, we ask you attend monthly online group supervisions held weekday evenings or luchtimes, supervision sessions provide a great opportunity for all the mentors to come together discuss challenges, successes and further develop mentoring skills. 

Training: Through our comprehensive training and ongoing support, you will develop skills in positive psychology and coaching style techniques, cover topics including safeguarding, confidentiality, the person-centred approach and the growth mindset all of which will help you to effectively support someone to making steps towards positive change.

 What else do I need to know?

• A DBS check is required
•  Due to the nature of our users of this programme, we are only accepting female volunteers for this role.
• In person session will take place within Westminster or Kensington and Chelsea boroughs.
• We especially welcome mentors over the age of 50, for our Women2Women: Sharing Wisdom, Sharing Lives sub programme. This is a great opportunity if you are looking to bridge a gap in your CV and get back into work. We provide references and development opportunities through training.