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Welcome to the website of the Scottish Mentoring Network. Whether you are someone new to mentoring and looking to find out more about it, or an experienced mentoring or coaching practitioner looking to keep up to date with developments, this website has something for you. This website contains the most comprehensive on-line library of mentoring information in Scotland. The idea is that we save you time by gathering all the information, resources and contacts you need in one place. The trade off is that we rely on you to help us keep the site up to date and the number one place to network and share best practice.

Local Mentoring Network Meetings

Our upcoming local Mentoring meetings have been confirmed.

Please refer to the local networks forum page of our site.

Approved Provider Standard

For those of you wanting to know more about how your mentoring project can obtain the Approved Provider Standard award please click here.

Mentoring for people who are facing barriers to employment.

We are partnering with the MENTOR European project to collect information from Mentors who work with mentees facing barriers to employment. If you know of any Mentors who work with mentees facing this type of problem then please ask the mentor to fill in the survey by clicking here and sending it to the following address by 22nd June 2009:

by e-mail: f.wright@weascotland.org.uk

or post:WEA, Riddles Court, 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2PG

Training Mentors

The Scottish Mentoring Network owns the rights to an SVQ qualification in peer mentoring for mentors who are involved with potentially vulnerable clients. This group could range from lone parents to people (young or old) affected by bullying, substance abuse or homelessness. This qualification covers a lot of areas and has been well received but it does require a time commitment and there is a cost attached to it.

We are currently assessing the level of need for this training and would appreciate it if you could fill our questionnaire by clicking here. If you have any problems we can be contacted by phone on 0141 225 8009 or by emailing kerry@scottishmentoringnetwork.co.uk.

Call for Case Studies from Scottish Mentoring Projects!

The Scottish Mentoring Network is now gathering case studies to display on their website and show to others with an interest in Mentoring. Submitting a case study may help to raise awareness of your Mentoring project and would help to demonstrate your best practice tips to others.

There are two case study templates to choose from:

Our Individual Case Study template is for yourself, the mentee you have chosen and their mentor to fill in and if possible attach a few photographs.
Our Project Case Study is one that you can fill in to give more detail about your project without having to give great detail about the Mentor and/or the Mentee.

If your project would like to submit a case study please fill in one of the templates above and send to: Kerry Stewart, Scottish Mentoring Network, 3rd Floor, Centrum Buildings, 38 Queen Street, Glasgow, G1 3DX or email to kerry@scottishmentoringnetwork.co.uk.

Please don't hesitate to give me a call on 0141 225 8009 if you have any questions

Our new contact details are:

Address: 3rd Floor, Centrum Building, 38 Queen Street, Glasgow, G1 3DX

Tel: 0141 225 8009

Fax: 0141 248 8066

If you wish to be kept up-to-date with latest developments then please e-mail us at info@scottishmentoringnetwork.co.uk and we will add you to our contact database. If you want to join the Scottish Mentoring Network please click here.

Click here to see Latest News

Click here for the 10 most popular mentoring research/evaluation document downloads

Click here for recent additions to the mentoring research/evaluation document bank

Some of the successful Approved Provider Standard Portfolios have now been added to the Resources section of the SMN website, however these are only available to members of SMN.

The development of this website was funded through a partnership between the Scottish Government and Lord Laidlaw of Rothiemay's 'Laidlaw Youth Trust'.