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► Baseline - DEPAUL UK

What: Baseline is a mentoring service which matches volunteer mentors with young people who live in the Newcastle area, have a background of homelessness and need support making the transition into independent living. Baseline also runs group sessions covering issues affecting young people.

Volunteer Roles:

Volunteer Mentors

Baseline recruits Volunteer Mentors from a wide variety of backgrounds and of all ages. Each Mentor must want to help disadvantaged young people to reach their full potential, supporting them as they move into their own home for the first time and be a good listener.

Volunteer Mentoring Projects Assistant

Baseline is a mentoring service for disadvantaged young people living in the Newcastle and North Tyneside area working alongside the One to One mentoring project who offer mentoring services in prisons and young offender institutes in the North East of England.

The volunteer posts are an integral part of mentoring projects team. The aim is to support the staff members of the mentoring projects and the tasks detailed below.

• Assisting with administration of referrals for young people
• To help with promoting the schemes
• To be involved with writing a newsletter for the projects
• Inputting data onto a computerised recording system
• Assisting with recruitment and training of volunteer mentors
• In liason with project workers conduct assessment of young people
• To be involved with mentor/mentee matches and monitoring
• To be involved in organising and facilitating support group sessions
• General administration duties such as: photocopying, updating files, making and receiving phone calls, typing letters, record keeping, requesting references for volunteer mentors, assist with CRB and prison clearance application forms.

Newsletter Volunteer

Baseline is a mentoring service for disadvantaged young people living in the Newcastle and Tyne and Wear area.

The volunteer posts are an integral part of mentoring projects team. The aim is to support the staff members of the mentoring projects and the tasks detailed below.

• Help with promoting the project
• Assist with forwarding information by Newsletter
• Help to improve the Newsletter
• Gather information to put in the Newsletter
• Communicate with others to create Newsletter
• Send out the Newsletter
• Liaise with project co-ordinator for final draft of Newsletter

Volunteer Mentoring Project Promoter

Baseline is a mentoring service for disadvantaged young people living in the Newcastle and Tyne and Wear area.

The volunteer posts are an integral part of mentoring projects team. The aim is to support the staff members of the mentoring projects and the tasks detailed below.

• Help with promoting the project
• Contact external agencies working with young people to arrange meetings
• Give Depaul Uk marketing and referral information to external agencies
• Meet with external agencies to promote the Baseline mentoring project
• Agree any meetings with project co-ordinator in advance
• Always attend meetings with a staff member or volunteer
• Liaise with project co-ordinator feedback from each meeting

Skills/experiences/qualifications: No qualifications are required as Baseline provides volunteers with an initial comprehensive training programme run over six sessions and ongoing training. Each volunteer mentor will receive regular one to one sessions with the project manager to discuss any issues, a regular mentors project meeting to talk to other baseline volunteers and access to an on call system for advice and guidance.

All travel expenses and any out of pocket costs incurred during the course of the volunteering activities will be reimbursed.