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Trustees Report 2022-23 Workshop

The long-term vision of Workshop is ‘to advance in life and relieve the needs of boys and young men aged 10-18 at risk of exclusion’ or already excluded from educational setting.

In the past year we have started working with five young people. Two, 10 years old adopted boys who are struggling at home, whose mother requested support hoping that building a relationship with an older male over the long term will improve their chances of integrating at home and school. Two mentors were ready to spend time with these boys, one sees his mentee once a fortnight on a Saturday morning, the other, who had started to visit regularly, had to stop because of health difficulties. His intention being to resume the visits when he feels surer about the health challenges. The other mentor reports that the relationship is developing well and that they get to know each other in a variety of activities from crazy golf to making a chicken run.

Two other boys are mentored by workshop volunteers. We arranged for a boy of 14 to start with one of our mentors but he did not engage, so this volunteer is now meeting up with his older brother who is also not in education or employment. The young man concerned is becoming more open and able to talk about himself and a healthy relationship is growing between them. We will continue to attempt to draw the younger brother into the workshop community by arranging 6-a-side football. Another young man of 17 who had been mentored by a volunteer found himself in crisis and homeless and was helped to find accommodation with the local authority and supported in order to carry on his college work over a crucial period. Another Workshop mentor had attempted to engage with a 14 year old boy with multiple exclusions from school but was not able to overcome the complication of parental involvement support and abandoned this referral.

Workshop have recognised the need to consolidate our team of mentors by providing monthly peer supervision. We started regular mentor meetings in order to offer informal and informal training opportunities to mentors and build confidence in meeting the challenges of supporting young men in crisis. They have also been an opportunity to learn from other by discussing our activities with the young men. And to encourage each other to preserver with them over a longer period. Another reason for meeting up like this is to involve mentors who are waiting to start mentoring. Attendance at these meetings varies from 4 – 10, they have been enjoyable and useful, and they continue to evolve as we learn more about our needs as a group of mentors.

In keeping with the stated aims of Workshop the first task is to recruit and support mentors. We have now recruited 6 mentors, 4 of whom are currently involved in mentoring. We have recruited mentors through personal networking. There were two reasons for this, one that we have not wanted to advertise for volunteers because we had a sufficient base of volunteers to get started and develop slowly as we learned more about how to operate. Two, we place a high value on building a community approach to reaching isolated individuals and assumed that more organic development fits this ethos. Although this approach to volunteers has worked well over the first few years, we may have reached the stage when we need consider new ways to interest volunteers.

Alongside the recruitment of mentors is their on-going training and supervision. Supervision is provided, if possible once a month to each mentor, but depending on the need could be more frequent. Since we have the potential to provide more training and supervision it does not stop us recruiting more volunteers.

Workshop’s second task is finding the young men who will benefit from mentoring. Up until now we have relied on personal referrals which have come from local non-statutory sources. Our experience of engaging schools has not been positive and we have not yet built up a working relationship with a local school, and since we are not in a position to offer mentoring services on a larger scale we have not made ourselves know to statutory services. In view of the number of potential candidates for mentoring, we do need to explore other sources of referrals. We would like see workshops capacity increase In relation to both recruiting mentors and mentees.

In regard to finances Workshop has not put much emphasis on raising funds or developing a budget. This question will become more pressing when we are dealing with more volunteers and mentees. But even now, we should aim to be more pro-active in paying travel and other expenses. We have not, to date needed to evaluate spending in relation to outcomes, as expenses have been minimal. However, we have perhaps reached a point when it would be to our advantage to consider fund raising and spending in order to develop what we are doing.

This is the third year we have operated, and we are developing as a team. We are learning more about what it means to try to meet the relational needs of young men referred to us. This report, I think indicates that Workshop is generally on track; we have kept our focus on facilitating personal relationship with boys and young men who are isolated and at very real risk of social exclusion, and building a community of mentors committed to supporting each other. Although we have not been operating long, it is already encouraging to see the longterm commitment and quality of mentoring.

Workshop is growing quite slowly, and if it continues to grow it is not hard to see what it can be achieved. Mentoring in Workshop has developed in line with the aim to support young men struggling with a sense of self-worth to find a place they belong. As a group we feel we have made a good start in developing a community of volunteers. Workshop set out to create a network of relationships as the best way to achieving social integration and is gradually making progress. In the light of this review we need to re-evaluate recruitment, referrals sources and fund raising in order to move further towards our aims.

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