Awake Mentoring Service: our volunteers

Awake mentors usually have lived experience of disability.

After completing the mentor induction training, the trainees bring personal experience and knowledge of a variety of services and resources in the local area.

Mentor support is non-judgmental, free and confidential. It is offered for up to a year, through regular weekly meetings. Each partnership is periodically reviewed with a volunteer co-ordinator, and generally ends when the mentored person has reached their goal, or has reached an agreed point where they wish to withdraw.

Safeguarding vulnerable adults

Awake Mentoring Service is part of Scope, and has effective policies, codes of conduct and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults.

All Awake mentors and staff complete enhanced Criminal Records Bureau disclosures and receive regular supervision, support and ongoing training.