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Experts in mentoring and befriending
Our approach
For over 15 years, we have been helping organisations in the non-profit, public and private sectors to increase the 
quality and effectiveness of their mentoring and befriending services. We do this by helping organisations not only to develop services that are safe and effective, but also services that achieve results and are capable of continuous improvement.
We use the SIDE consultancy model to provide consultancy and development services to organisations. This has been developed to reflect good practice and mirrors the framework of our national quality standard, the Approved Provider Standard.
We can support you in the following ways:
- Scoping and exploring the requirements of your mentoring and befriending project
- Implementing your mentoring and befriending project
- Developing your mentoring and befriending project
- Evaluating and monitoring the outcomes and impact of your mentoring and befriending project
Our consultancy service will support you with personalised, specialist advice and expertise so that you can develop and sustain quality mentoring and befriending projects.
Our previous consultancy and development experience includes:
- Developing bespoke training programmes for a range of clients in the business, statutory and voluntary sectors
- Scoping and implementing an internal mentoring service for personal development and career progression within central government
- Developing local authority wide approaches to mentoring and peer mentoring for young people
- Developing and implementing training and toolkits for various charities
- Implementing quality assurance programmes benchmarked against MBF’s Approved Provider Standard (APS) national standards for a national young person’s mentoring programme
- Monitoring and evaluating big lottery funded projects and a number of government funded national pilot projects in mentoring
- Researching the potential of businesses to support local mentoring projects through employee-supported volunteering as part of their corporate and social responsibility objectives
Our clients include:
- Age Concern
- Amnesty International
- Balfour Beatty
- Cabinet Office
- Canon Slade School
- Catch22
- Children’s University
- Connexions
- Department for Education
- Department of Health
- Department of Work and Pensions
- Government Social Research Unit
- National Children’s Bureau
- National Children’s Society
- Neath Port Talbot Local Authority
- Nord Anglia Education
- Remploy
- South West Health Authority
- Staffordshire County Council
- Wokingham Borough Council
“MBF’s expertise and the experience offered by its staff has been crucial in ensuring the success of thousands of mentoring and befriending schemes nationwide.”
Mentoring project
Download our consultancy and development services brochure 2012-2013
