MEMBER NEWS: Award-winning inter-generational mentoring programme launches in Midlothian

Our member Volunteering Matters have launched their Grandmentors programme in Midlothian.

This programme matches volunteers with significant life experience with young people aged 16-25. We were delighted to see this programme being highlighted in the Midlothian View article (below).

"National volunteering and social change charity Volunteering Matters, has received funding from the Midlothian Community Mental Health and Wellbeing fund, enabling the organisation to launch their Grandmentors programme in Midlothian for the first time.

Grandmentors recruits, trains, and supports volunteers, normally those aged 50+ or who have life experience and skills to share, and matches those Volunteer Mentors with young people who are care experienced or facing life challenges and barriers.

The programme, run by Volunteering Matters, enables trained and supported volunteer mentors to provide invaluable emotional, social, and practical guidance to young people aged 16-25. A Grandmentor will draw on their wealth of personal and professional experience and utilise the assets within a community to unlock the young person's voice. With that voice, the mentor understands what the young person wants to achieve, what interests them, and how to potentially move forward in life."

Read the rest of this article at the link below. Photo credit: Midlothian View.