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09 December 2009

GateMate: Campaign to improve national coverage of mentoring services for young adults leaving prison launched

Launch events to be held in London and Manchester

The Prince's Trust in partnership with MBF, Clinks, St Giles Trust and Catch 22, are launching a new campaign called GateMate, which calls for national coverage of mentoring services for young adults leaving prison.

The third sector campaign will see the launch of a new online resource showing mentoring provision in UK prisons and in the community.

Clinks’ guiding principles aim to deliver the best possible support, advice, and guidance to prisons, probation and the third sector, with involving volunteers and mentors in working with offenders and ex-offenders. The guides produced as part of this project are titled:
  • Managing volunteers
  • Demonstrating effectiveness
  • Setting up a project and external quality standards

The launch event locations are:

London - Thursday 21st January 2010, 10.30 – 1.00
The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DB

Manchester - Tuesday 2nd Feb 2010, 10.00 – 12.30
Friends' Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS

Book your free place before Friday 18th December here

Read what Stephen Bubb, the chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) had to say about GateMate in his blog