One Million Mentors:
MANCHESTER MENTORING NETWORK – 'MAPPING & REVIEW'
About the organisation:
One Million Mentors (1MM) is a unique, community-based mentoring project with one simple aim: to connect one million young people with one million life-changing opportunities. 1MM connect mentors with high social capital to young people with low social capital, to improve their career chances and accelerate social mobility.
In 2020, One Million Mentors were appointed by Young Manchester as the Strategic Lead for Mentoring in the city, and subsequently formed the Manchester Mentoring Network, a growing network of twenty-two VCSE organisations and two commissioners (Young Manchester and Manchester City Council) across the region. The Manchester Mentoring Network was established to bring mentoring providers together to share best practices, discuss challenges, and identify gaps with a view to strengthening the mentoring ecosystem.
Mobilise were appointed by 1MM to research how well mentoring undertaken by the Manchester Mentoring Network is meeting the goals and needs of its beneficiaries. Mobilise is a hybrid organisation operating as a social purpose business. They bring together research and evidence to support organisations to implement policy and develop strategy fit for the new environment.
What have they been doing?
In 2020, One Million Mentors were commissioned by Young Manchester to map mentoring services in the city, assessing the efficacy, longevity and impact of their offerings.
1MM also spent time researching organisations’ delivery, identifying best practice and lessons to learn from different youth mentoring providers, establishing quality mentoring standards and recommending ways in which the local mentoring ecosystem can be strengthened.
1MM convened a network of twenty-four member organisations in the region to act as the Manchester Mentoring Network. The group was established to bring providers together to strengthen the mentoring ecosystem in the city.
This piece of work was commissioned to:
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Identify current youth mentoring activity (inc. peer-to-peer mentoring), best practice, challenges and different tools to measure impact across the city to establish a baseline of mentoring activities for the city.
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Identify and share best practice across the network on different aspects of effective youth mentoring.
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Make recommendations on how the Network can strengthen the local mentoring ecosystem + develop a roadmap for C&YP who require mentoring support. (stakeholders inc. young people, mentors, local employers, members of the network and strategic partners)
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Introduce quality standards for youth mentoring to address gaps in impact measurement across the network and standardise approaches to training, delivery and impact measurement.
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'In total, 1MM found 38 organisations in the Greater Manchester Region offering some form of youth mentoring'
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Here's a list of the organisations:
| 42nd Street | One Million Mentors |
| Manchester Youth Zone | Barnado's & GMYN |
| Active Communities Network | Power2 |
| N-Gage | Bolton Lads' & Girls Club |
| Arts Emergency | ReachOut |
| Bridge GM | RECLAIM |
| Brightside | Reform Radio |
| BW3 | Rochdale Connections Trust |
| Career Ready | Salford Foundation |
| City in the Community | CONTACT Theatre |
| City Year | The Girls Network |
| Citywise | The Princes Trust |
| CIPD | The Proud Trust |
| The Diana Award | Unity in the Community |
| Elevate Youth | UpRising |
| EY Foundation | Wigan Youth Zone |
| Greater Manchester Youth | Youth Elements |
| Groundwork GM | Youth Justice Service (MCC) |
| Innovate Her | Youth Leads |
We are excited to announce that a full-report from 1MM, Manchester Mentoring Network and Mobilise has now been published!
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Click below to download the report:
