The charity this week released the findings from Mentoring Potential, a feasibility study funded by the Home Office's Active Community Unit conducted between May and October 2004. The report shows how young people running community projects can become more successful with the help of mentors and outlines what the trust believes is the most workable system to deliver such support.
The model involves an organisation offering grants to groups of about 12 young people across three age bands: 14 to 16; 16 to 21; and 16 to 25. The young people would then get access to a database of mentors trained in accordance with a set of minimum mentoring standards.
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