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For parents and families

One young person, one mentor, one direction

Focused individual mentoring for young people, from 12 through to 25, working from the goals they set rather than the ones they have been given. Delivered remotely, in the evenings, around their week.
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Who it’s for

Young people who need direction, not another lecture

Some young people have plenty of ability and no plan. Some have a plan and no confidence to start on it. Some are drifting quietly, and nobody has yet sat down and asked them what they actually want.
One-to-one mentoring gives them two things: a consistent adult who is not their parent, not their teacher, and not marking them, and a structure that turns a vague ambition into something with steps in it.
It follows the same three domains as our schools programme, at their pace rather than a cohort’s.

01

Start with them

Start with them

Directed questioning, not advice. What they believe about themselves, and where that came from.

02

Build the picture

Build the picture

Guided visualisation and honest reflection until the goal is specific enough to act on.

03

Build the system

Build the system

Habits, tracking, and the practical tools of the Visionary Toolkit: organisation, study, time, environment.

04

Keep it honest

Keep it honest

Progress is reviewed against what they said they would do. The workbook is theirs, and so is the record.
In their words

Hear how it lands

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.
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Team with the coach
Training
Basketball Game
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Before you ask

The three questions parents actually ask

Someone who has been where they want to go: an athlete who went on to medical school, another who earned a scholarship in the States. We match your child with a mentor whose route they can believe in, and who has navigated the same transitions. We have done this before, with student athletes.
No. Sport is where we learned this, and sometimes how we open a conversation, but nothing here requires your child to play anything. We build the programme around whatever they are chasing: another sport, an instrument at a high level, an academic goal.
How your child is getting on, honestly. What they share with their mentor is held in confidence within the boundaries of safeguarding, and we are open with them about that from the start. It is how the space earns their trust.
Practicalities

How sessions run

One-to-one is the most flexible thing we do, built around school, training and everything else in a young person’s week.
Under-16s have a parent or guardian present for remote one-to-one sessions. Parents are kept informed of how things are going.
Ages
12 to 25, through school, university and beyond.
Remotely, in the evenings.
The same three domains, moved through at their own pace.
A certificate of completion, and a self-development experience they can point to in a personal statement, a UCAS form, a CV or an application.
Selected for credibility with the age group, and trained to a shared standard.
We talk it through on the first call: what would help your child, the options, and a clear rate.
A conversation with you and the mentor, then a first session with the young person, to talk through their needs and how best we can work together.
Safeguarding

How we keep young people safe

Our mentoring asks a young person 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.
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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.

A parent present

For remote one-to-one sessions, under-16s have a parent or guardian present throughout, so a mentor is never alone with a child.

Raising a concern

Concerns go to our own Level 3 Designated Safeguarding Lead, and to you: recorded and acted on, never left to sit.

Honest confidentiality

Young people are told at the outset what stays in the room and what cannot. It is never presented as absolute.

Get in touch

Enquire about one-to-one mentoring

Tell us a little about the young person and what you would like them to get out of it. We will come back to you to arrange a conversation, with you first, not with them.
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