LGBTQIA+ young adults deserve to find meaningful and long lasting work. We're ensuring that the future generation of the workforce can blossom authentically in education and employment.
We’re proud to offer a mentoring orientated programme for young adults, from the entire LGBTQIA+ community, aged from 16 to 30 to support them to stay in, or to find, full time education or employment. Our goal is to focus on increasing your chances of finding work that you care about. We do this through direct coaching, work experience, and group workshops. We also focus on providing you with holistic support which takes into account your entire person and identity. We think that this helps to increase your ability to enter work authentically and advocate for your needs as a proud intersectional person.
What to expect
You'll have the choice between in person mentoring in our Guildford Office or online mentoring via video calls. When you first sign up to the scheme we’ll book in an initial call. During this call, we’ll create a small anonymous profile about who you are, what you’re looking to achieve, and what you’ve done to date. This will be a no judgement call designed to make sure you get connected with the perfect mentor! You'll have your first four sessions with our in-house expert team whilst we go and recruit a mentor for you. Once we’ve found a mentor for you, then you’ll meet with them to decide what your working relationship will look like, set your initial goals, and explore how they can help you to bloom! Once you’ve started to find some confidence we can then explore internships & job applications!
How we approach mentoring
It’s important that we’re clear from day one – you have the power. It’s up to you how you use our support, if you take our advice, or if you do what you agree. Your mentor will use frameworks to help you come to your own conclusions and leave you to decide if you take action. From the go, our goal is to guide you through decision making processes, not to give you direct instructions. The only condition to continued support is that you have to demonstrate how you’re working towards your targets.
- Must be aged between 16 and 30 years old.
- From the LGBTQIA+ community or questioning their identity.