Volunteers wanted for young people's mentoring project

Volunteer Centre West Lothian and West Lothian Council’s `More Choices, More Chances’ team are planning a collaborative, year long pilot project centred on providing volunteer mentors to act as role models to young people within three of the Council’s secondary schools and to young people who have recently left school as they seek to sustain employment. The age range of the potential Mentee’s is 14 to 19.

The Young People’s Mentoring Programme will seek to address what is perceived to be one of the contributing factors in the young people not achieving a good standard of learning, level of personal motivation and employment – the absence of a positive role model in their young lives.

They intend to recruit Volunteer Mentors from within West Lothian’s Business Community as well as the Public and Private sectors.

Training and ongoing support of the Mentors will be provided free of charge and reasonable travel expenses met. This is an ideal opportunity to use your life skills to assist the young people of West Lothian. There is a need for 40 Volunteer Mentors.

Training will take place in the Volunteer Centre from 6 to 9pm over three evenings, 27th and 31st of August and 1st September 2009

To book your place on the next training course please call the Volunteer Centre on 01506 650111 or e-mail volunteer@vcwl.co.uk

All Volunteer Mentors will be asked to submit to a Disclosure Check