For schools, basketball clubs and families

Helping young people reach their highest potential

A structured mentoring programme that turns ambition into self-awareness, a clear vision, and the habits that get a young person there.

Schools, clubs and organisations we have worked with

The Visionary process begins with self-awareness. You have to look inward before you can look forward.

Who it’s for

Secondary school to university. Any young person.

Almost every young person would benefit from understanding themselves better. What they actually want. How the people around them shape their goals and their outlook. Why the small things they do every day either move them closer to what they want, or further from it.

This understanding is key. It is not just for the ones who are struggling. The moment a young person grasps it, they have the power to shape their own future.

It works from secondary school age upwards: secondary, sixth form, college, university. Schools choose who would benefit most, and we build the programme around them.

We don’t just leave young people inspired. We leave them with a method.

What makes us different

In the room

A conversation / on court

Thirty minutes of honest discussion and written reflection. Thirty minutes on court. The second half is earned by the first, and it is what drives the engagement we get. We are happy to build a bespoke format around your school.

Watch the film

A school’s verdict, after a term

Teachers on what actually changed. Pupils in their workbooks. And the second half of the session, on court.

basketball

Team with the coach

Training

Basketball Game

One on one Training

The Visionary Process

Three domains in sequence. Two that never stop.

SEE Yourself Clearly

You cannot set a goal worth having from a false picture of yourself. Young people map their own story, weigh the labels they give themselves against the ones others give them, and rewrite the self-talk that has been quietly running the show.

Become a VISIONARY

Ambition dies of vagueness. They name the beliefs holding them back, take them apart, and build a picture of who they intend to become, specific enough to walk into.

ENHANCE Your Focus

A vision without a system is a wish. Vision becomes goals, goals become habits, habits become a system they can run, with the obstacles named before they arrive.

The work

The Visionary Toolkit

Practical tools, handed over as they are needed: organisation, distraction, environment, study, time management, wellbeing.

The hard work

Visionary Mindset

Resilience, discipline, and the Visionary Reset: what to do in the moment when it isn’t working.

The detail

How it works in practice

01

Stated learning objectives

Every session opens with what a young person should be able to do by the end of it, and closes against defined outcomes.

02

Trained, not scripted

Mentors are trained to a shared standard, then trusted to adapt. The guide holds the quality; how they get a group talking is theirs.

03

A workbook they keep

The questions are ours. The answers are theirs, written down each session, revisited, and taken home at the end.

04

Feedback we act on

Teachers and pupils give written feedback at the end of a block. We use it to improve the programme. Raise anything with us at any point.

Every young person who completes the programme also finishes with a certificate of completion, and a real experience to point to in a personal statement, a UCAS form, or a CV.

Impact

What people say about us

“One student in particular grew in confidence, started attending lessons on time and engaging with teachers and her peers. This also had a positive outcome at home. Other students learnt to work together, engage with others and trust adults.”

Tara Webster

Senior Leadership Team, Redland Green School

“It has been really working for getting kids to open up… you can see the input the mentors have had in the progress the students are making.”

Staff feedback

Excalibur Academies Trust

4.75/5

Average school rating across rapport, organisation, basketball engagement and pupil engagement

4.94/5

Caledonia Blues academy players’ rating for engagement and delivery

How to work with us

For schools

School mentoring programmes

Small-group mentoring, delivered in your school.

For basketball clubs

Basketball club mentoring

Mentors who are professional players, and who used the game to build lives beyond it. Your squad grows as people, not just athletes.

Win on the court, and win in life.

For parents and families

One-to-one mentoring

Focused individual support for a young person, delivered remotely.

A consistent relationship where a young person builds confidence and takes ownership of their life.

Looking for something more bespoke?

Multi-academy trusts, sixth forms, alternative provision, youth charities, community programmes, clubs in other sports. Tell us your setting and we will find a way to work together to help the next generation.

The team

The team behind the programme

Who we are, and the standard every mentor is held to. We choose mentors for credibility with the age group, train them to a shared standard, and DBS-check each one without exception.

Dr Elton Chawatama

Rotimi Keshinro

Marcus Delpeche

Malcolm Delpeche

Why we exist

Sport taught us lessons that reach far beyond the court

Visionary Mentoring was founded by a group of friends who met through basketball. We have seen what sport can do for a young person, and we know the lessons were never really about sport. Discipline. Resilience. How to set a target and work at it when you don’t feel like it. How to lose on Saturday and turn up on Monday.

So we set the lessons down, built them into a curriculum, and took that curriculum into schools, where they now reach young people far beyond the court.

Becoming a visionary means more than just dreaming. It means gaining the ability to imagine, plan, and build the future with creativity and ambition.

From the Visionary curriculum

Safeguarding

How we keep young people safe

Our programme asks young people to be honest about themselves. That takes clear boundaries, adults who have been properly vetted, and the reassurance that what they share is treated with care and respect.

Vetted and trained

Every mentor comes with an enhanced DBS, safeguarding training, and in-house mentoring training built for the age group they work with.

Teacher or TA always present

A teacher or teaching assistant is present throughout every school session.

Raising a concern

Concerns go to our own Level 3 Designated Safeguarding Lead and your school’s DSL, worked through your routes so nothing is missed.

Get in touch

Start with a conversation

Twenty minutes on a call. Tell us about the group of young people and what you want to change, and we will tell you what we would run, what it would cost, and whether we are the right fit. If we are not, we will say so.