Programme Planning
Planning is critical to the success of any mentoring, befriending or school based peer support programme to help reduce uncertainties and minimise the risk of a programme underachieving or becoming financially unstable. We have an extensive track record of helping new and experienced organisations effectively plan, design and deliver efficient and effective programmes. We also provide strategic support to commissioning managers looking to develop quality frameworks or procure mentoring or befriending services in their local communities.
Mentoring and Befriending Solutions offers a wide range of services to both new and experienced providers in this area including:
Strategic advice and programme planning – we can work with you and your organisation to clarify your requirements and formulate the most efficient and cost effective means to plan and implement your programme.
Feasibility study – we can provide an independent and objective analysis to help you determine the viability of a proposed mentoring, befriending, school or college based peer support programme.
Service improvement review – we can provide a comprehensive analysis of your service provision, identify problems and areas of good practice and provide you with a detailed quality improvement plan to help move your programme forward.
Volunteer management – we can design and support the implementation of an effective volunteer mentoring, befriending or peer mentoring management system or review an existing system to ensure that it meets quality standards in volunteer mentoring and befriending management.
Monitoring and evaluation – we can develop a detailed monitoring and evaluation framework to help you systematically gather appropriate information that will enable you to demonstrate your achievements and plan for the continuous improvement of your programme.
Income generation strategy – we can help develop and implement a detailed income generation strategy to help contribute to the long term planning of your programmes operation. This could also include the expansion of existing income streams into other areas such as legacy fundraising, trust and institutions, corporate sponsorship, community fundraising and other relevant donor audiences.
Research and evaluation – we are able to undertake evidence based research across a wide range of mentoring, befriending and peer mentoring sector areas and are happy to work in partnership to share our specialist knowledge with others in the field. We can also deliver an evaluation of your programme to help develop your own or your organisations understanding of how you’re mentoring, befriending or peer mentoring programme is operating and the impact that your provision is having at an individual, organisational, community and policy level.
Recently commissioned work
Teignbridge CVS – Total Support Programme (on behalf of the Devon Consortium)
Commissioned to develop a mentoring framework including mentor and mentee preparation packs for the Devon Voluntary & Community Expert Mentoring Scheme. M & B Solutions to conduct an external evaluation of the pilot phase early 2012
Somerset County Council – Aiming High for Disabled Children
Commissioned to design a ‘Volunteer Buddy Scheme’ toolkit for use by Somerset schools and community based youth groups to set up and implement effective ‘peer support’ for children and young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities
Triangle – Apprenticeship Xtra (funded by the Skills Funding Agency and National Apprenticeship Service)
Mentoring and Befriending Solutions is currently providing strategic advice to Triangle on the development and implementation of a mentoring project to increase the number of apprenticeships taken up by ‘atypical’ apprentices.
Care Focus Somerset
Provided strategic advice on the development of an innovative mentoring service for people new to personal budgets to help give them the confidence, skills and knowledge to help them understand the basic issues and legalities of employing their own staff.
Explorium – Tree Play
Commissioned to design and implement a volunteer management system to support the involvement of volunteers. Mentoring and Befriending Solutions is currently providing one to one mentoring support to help the organisation develop and become financially sustainable. Currently undertaking an evaluation of Tree Play’s Natural History Film making mentoring pilot project.
To find out more about any of our services or to discuss how we can help you and your organisation with programme planning please feel free to get in touch.
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