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About us
The Mentoring and Befriending Foundation (MBF) aims to increase the effectiveness and quality of mentoring and befriending as methods of enabling individuals to transform their lives and/or reach their full potential.
MBF does this by providing training, quality assurance, information, advice and guidance, organisational consultancy and network membership for people interested in mentoring/befriending.
MBF also promotes the value and showcase the benefits of mentoring and befriending through campaign work, conferences and events.
Read our impact report 2010 to see what we got up to and how we performed against our targets.
Our core services
Training
- We provide high quality training courses to support the development and management of mentoring and befriending services
Quality Assurance
- We promote good practice and encourage organisations to achieve the Approved Provider Standard, our quality standard for mentoring and befriending projects
MBF network membership
- We provide a membership network for mentoring and befriending practitioners/projects to facilitate networking, encourage innovation and sharing of good practice
Information, advice and guidance
- We offer expert information, advice and guidance to organisations that wish to invest in, set up or develop mentoring and befriending projects.
Project delivery
- We manage and/or support the delivery of mentoring and befriending projects.
Organisational consultancy and other products/services
- We offer organisational consultancy and other products/services to support the delivery of mentoring and befriending projects.
Profile raising activities
- We promote the value and showcase the benefits of mentoring and befriending through campaign work, conferences and events.
