About the project

Mentoring matches children and young people with mentors who provide guidance and support. The YEF’s Toolkit shows that mentoring is likely to have a moderate impact on reducing violent crime. But there is little high-quality UK evidence, especially on delivery by grassroots organisations.

The YEF funding initially saw 10 small organisations that deliver mentoring recruited to take part in a feasibility study of the multi-site RCT. This will inform the roll-out of a subsequent pilot RCT evaluation involving up to 20 small organisations, delivering mentoring to approximately 1,000 children and young people over the course of a year.

The delivery partners for the multi-site trials of mentoring practice are:

• Act for Change
• Buddy Up
• Dame Kelly Holmes Trust
• Emerge (UK) Company Ltd
• Education and Skills Development Group
• Enthusiasm Trust
• Getaway Girls
• Mancroft Advice Project (MAP)
• Media Academy Cymru
• NAOS (Bristol) CIC
• Positive Youth Foundation
• Power2
• Reaching Higher
• SOFEA
• Switch Midlands CIC
• The Trust for Developing Communities (TDC)
• The Welsh Association of Youth Clubs (Youth Cymru)

Download the study plans: