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Baseline offers a mentoring service to young people who have experienced homelessness and are moving into their first tenancies.

Where: The project is based in Newcastle and attracts volunteers of a wide variety of backgrounds and skills. They recruit male and female volunteers who provide support for the young people.

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 Role: 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.

Skills/experiences/qualifications: No qualifications are required as Baseline provides the mentors 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.Volunteers are required to attend initial training, project meetings and one to one assessments.