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Staff, volunteers and service users

Our range of resources for relating to managing employees, volunteers and service users can be found below.

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  • Training volunteer mentors or befrienders – Interactive PDF version

    Planning and delivering your mentor or befriender volunteer training?  Then this training toolkit, packed with over 20 hours of interactive learning activities
    Resource type: toolkit
    Price: £25

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  • Training volunteer mentors or befrienders – Hard copy

    Planning and delivering your mentor or befriender volunteer training?  Then this training toolkit, packed with over 20 hours of interactive learning activities
    Resource type: toolkit
    Price: £45

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  • Peer Mentoring: A guide for parents

    Aimed at parents whose child may be involved in a school-based peer mentoring programme giving a brief explanation of what is involved
    Resource type: leaflet
    Price: free

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  • Peer Mentoring: A guide for young people

    Explains the concept of peer mentoring to young people and includes information on the benefits for both mentee and mentor
    Resource type: leaflet
    Price: free

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  • How to find a mentor or befriender

    Signposting information for anyone looking to find a mentor or befriender for themselves or someone they know
    Resource type: information sheet
    Price: free

  • Recruitment of volunteer mentors and befrienders

    Guidance on the key elements to consider when developing a recruitment process for your project’s volunteer mentors and befrienders
    Resource type: information sheet
    Price: free

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  • Induction for mentoring and befriending service users

    Provides a framework for mentoring and befriending projects to deliver an induction process that meets the needs of their service users
    Resource type: information sheet
    Price: free

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  • Want to volunteer as a mentor or befriender?

    Outlines in general what the volunteer role entails, the key benefits it brings and how to go about finding a volunteering opportunity
    Resource type: information sheet
    Price: free

  • Getting your training accredited – an introduction for mentoring and befriending projects

    An introduction to accreditation options for getting your mentor and befriender training accredited with links to awarding bodies and further information
    Resource type: information sheet
    Price: free

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  • Drugs awareness resources: Drugs and young people – advice for co-ordinators running mentoring and befriending projects

    Part of a set of free drugs awareness resources produced by MBF and FRANK to provide essential guidance about drugs-related issues and to offer advice on the most effective methods of assisting young people (FREE to download or £5 for a set of 10)
    Resource type: guide
    Price: £5

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  • Drugs awareness resources: Mentoring, befriending and drugs – advice for mentors and befrienders

    This booklet designed for volunteer mentors and befrienders is part of a set of drugs awareness resources produced by MBF and FRANK to provide essential guidance about drugs-related issues and to offer advice on the most effective methods of assisting young people (FREE to download or £5 for a set of 10)
    Resource type: guide
    Price: £5

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  • I know someone who can…

    A signposting guide to information available on the web for peer mentors aged 11-25 to use as an aid when supporting their mentee (FREE to download or £5 for a set of 10)
    Resource type: leaflet
    Price: £5

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  • Power to the people through personalisation

    This article outlines the main principles of personalisation and highlights the emerging issues and implications faced by voluntary sector organisations
    Resource type: article
    Price: free

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  • Treating volunteers mean don’t keep ‘em keen

    This article reveals how a range of mentoring and befriending project leaders successfully motivated their volunteer mentors and befrienders during the long wait for their CRB checks to come through
    Resource type: article
    Price: free

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  • Making waves

    One in five befriending programmes have problems attracting volunteers – this article talks to befriending project managers to find out what has worked well for them
    Resource type: article
    Price: free

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