Since 2009, Sophie Livingstone has been chief executive of City Year UK, a youth and education charity that offers young people a year of full-time voluntary service in schools through a model that originated in the United States. She is also a co-founder of social action organisation Generation Change.
How many young mentors does City Year currently have?
At the moment we have 135 [mentors aged between 18 and 25] across three cities - London, Birmingham and Manchester - working in 19 partner schools. We are hoping to partner with about five more schools from January in the West Midlands and Greater Manchester so the numbers will increase then.
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