Sports Scholarship

Mentor Programme

All scholars are entitled to their own mentor throughout the year of the scholarship. Mentors are volunteers who work with trust to provide positive role models to the young scholars. All mentors are fully trained and receive Criminal Record Bureaux checks.

What is a mentor?

A mentor is a volunteer who works for the trust. A mentor may be a sports person, a student, teacher, or work in business and will have experience of working with young people.

What does a mentor do?

A mentor is assigned to you who may have an interest in your sport or other related experience. The mentor is a friendly, helpful person who will meet with you every six weeks to chat, go for coffee, come and watch you train or compete. They represent the West London Sports Trust by giving you advice on how to spend your scholarship, they can chat to you about your sport, about school, college, university, and anything else you may want to chat to them about!!

If you chat to the mentor about something you are worried about then they will treat it as confidential. If the mentor feels you are at harm or in trouble then they may have to discuss this with the trust manager but they will tell you before they do this.

What if my mentor and I do not get on?

If you have any problems or do not feel you get on with your mentor then let the trust know and we can match you up with someone else. We try our best to match you with someone we feel you would get on with but we may not get it right every time!

All we ask of you:

When you meet with your mentor try to be on time, or let the trust know if you may be late or cannot make the meeting. As the mentor is a volunteer for the trust, please do not ask the mentor for any personal details e.g. phone number, where they live etc as it may be intrusive into their lives.

We hope that the mentor programme is helpful to you. We would love to hear your opinions and suggestions about the programme so let us know what is good and what is not so good!