Thanks for signalling your availability to support a young person in 2025. All our volunteers need to have attended mentor training before they're eligible to be matched. We'll reach out to you via email about this if you've not been matched yet.
Here is our standard timeline for mentoring:
- August: Volunteers like you sign up to mentor from the following January
- September: We start training up new volunteers, reaching out to your references, and we launch our call-out for mentees.
- October: We continue delivering mentor training and we are busy interviewing every potential mentee in-person.
- November: The matching process begins! If we need to, we'll run DBS checks on mentors. We'll run a couple of last-minute mentor training sessions.
- December: We finalise all the matches and continue doing DBS checks on those who need them.
- January: We'll hold regional and online introduction events and the mentoring year begins!
Training dates
New volunteers must attend one of our two hour training sessions before becoming available to be matched. We run a limited number of training sessions in October.
Mon 07 October, 6:30pm - MANCHESTER VENUE
Thurs 10 October, 6pm - LONDON VENUE
Tues 15 October, 6pm - ONLINE
Weds 16 October, 6pm - ONLINE
Tues 22 October, 6pm - ONLINE
Weds 23 October, 6pm - ONLINE
Mon 28 October, 12pm - ONLINE
Weds 30 October, 6:30pm - LIVERPOOL VENUE
Please reach out to the mentoring team to get a link to register for one of these dates.
What happens if you're not matched?
We recruit and train up more mentors than we need because that gives us the ability to find the perfect match for every young person. This does mean that you may not get matched this year, but we'll make every effort to find you a match in the future.
You are a part of the Arts Emergency Network alongside thousands of other volunteers from the creative and cultural sectors. We’ll send you a regular newsletter with Arts Emergency updates and news from our Young Community and ways you can support them to take their next steps. We’ll also invite you to share advice, tickets and entry level jobs.
Can you join our community of donors?
In the face of truly bleak odds our little organisation manages to carve out space for young artists & thinkers to connect, develop and flourish over time. It’s life-affirming, nourishing and deeply necessary.
40% of Arts Emergency mentors also make monthly donations, it’s an easy and practical way to share your privilege. A monthly donation helps fund programmes that transform a young person's life chances.
Please make a monthly donation if you're able to.