‘Before I started mentoring, I had no real experience of providing support to a young person. Despite various roles in my employment history, I had never gained noticeable supervisory experience and had avoided opportunities to mentor even though I felt I had skills that could contribute well to the role. With the helpful sup-port and training of GMP, I gained the confidence to start the mentoring pro-gramme. Over the course of the mentoring period, the sustained support from GMP has allowed me to have a lot of confidence in mentoring. When I started I was not in permanent employment. The programme gave me confidence to gain per-manent employment and recently I have progressed to take on a mentoring role in my work that I had avoided in the past. I could not have done this without this op-portunity.’
Before I started mentoring
