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Mentoring

We provide mentoring support to Cambridge University students who are care-experienced, estranged and/or independent.  Our trained, vetted and supported mentors provide pastoral care, support, advice and guidance to students via in-person one-to-one sessions.  Our mentors live in the local area and are committed to helping students thrive at university and feel settled in the city.

As well as one-to-one support from a mentor students can access a range of social groups and meet other students, from a range of colleges, who are in a similar position.  In the past this has included punting, garden parties, meals out, go-karting, beach trips, and visits to escape rooms and theme parks.

Students

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Below are some FAQs about our mentoring programme.

Meetings will take place at a mutually agreed place in, or close to, Cambridge City. This will in general be in a public place (e.g. a coffee shop), never in your room, and mentors will not invite you to their own home (at least until the mentoring relationship has been established for some time and only when we have given approval for this to happen).

Mentoring sessions are typically 1-1.5 hours each week whenever you’re in Cambridge (both and out of term depending on when around). Nevertheless, we do not stipulate the exact time, duration regularity these you, your mentor, can find a rhythm that works for you. Mentoring sessions are typically 1-1.5 hours each week whenever you’re in Cambridge (both and out of term depending on when around). Nevertheless, we do not stipulate the exact time, duration regularity these you, your mentor, can find a rhythm that works for you.

In general, mentoring relationships last at least one academic year at which point there is a ‘break clause’ and both you and your mentor can decide whether it continues into the next year. However, you can stop mentoring relationships at any time.

We will pass on the contact details for your mentor to you (and vice versa) when we make an initial match.  It is then up to you and your mentor to arrange sessions.

You, alongside your mentor, are free to decide exactly what you will do depending on your feelings, foals, interests etc.  Activities could include; meeting for a coffee, cooking together, going for a walk or visiting a place of interest and exhibition or a museum.

Mentors will not share personal information about you to anyone outside of Concrete Rose unless we are legally obliged to do so or there is a significant risk you and/or others.  Even in these circumstances the information will remain private and will only be shared on a ‘need to know’ basis.

All mentors must complete an application form and are subject to an interview, references, and a DBS check.  They must also complete 6 hours of mentor training.

First year HPS student

“The mentoring experience has absolutely been the highlight of my time here”

Are you a care-experienced, estranged and/or independent student?

Find out more about our mentoring programme by downloading our “Mentee Handbook”