Get Involved

With our training and support, compelled by the love of Christ, you could be the one who journeys with a young person through life’s challenges.

How to get involved?

  • Complete and submit the Volunteer Application Form

  • A Reach Mentoring staff team member will arrange to meet you for an informal chat around what being a mentor entails, expectations, practicalities involved and it will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions you may have.

  • Next you will be asked to complete an Access NI background check.

  • Once the Volunteer Application Form and Access NI has been submitted references will be collected.

  • Attend a training night provided by Reach Mentoring, to upskill you around safeguarding and child protection policy as well as mentoring training.

  • Once training has all been completed, you will be assigned a school to begin mentoring in alongside a Reach Mentoring staff member.

Why get involved?

  • Mentoring provides a space for young people to be cared for, heard, valued and understood. 

  • “Every child deserves one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her” - Urie Bronfenbrenner.

  • Mentoring provides an opportunity for young people to experience some form of consistency in their life.

  • Volunteering provides an opportunity for you to give back into your community while supporting young people and staff in schools.

“I am very pleased to say that I volunteer for Reach, a wonderful organisation that partners with schools to mentor young people. 

After years of working in the NHS and with a charity for young people with learning difficulties, I found myself with some free time and wanted to use it in a positive way. What could be more positive than sharing time with young people encouraging them to share their stories and helping them to work through any difficulties they may be experiencing in school or home life.

It gives me great satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment to think of the time I have spent building up a relationship with each young person, initially getting to know them and encouraging them to share both the good and maybe not so good things that they are coping with, working alongside them to identify things they want to change.

It is a privilege to meet with the same young person every week. Through a mixture of chatting to each other and completing activities I can see their motivation and belief in themselves grow and it makes me proud to think that I have helped them in some small way.”

Sandra, Mentor in a Post Primary School