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Are you looking to make a meaningful and lasting difference in your community? Do you want to be part of a passionate, friendly and supportive team? Join Mentoring Plus! 

Who we are

We're an independent charity supporting children and young people facing challenges across Bath & North East Somerset through 1:1 mentoring, youth clubs and activities programmes.

With the support of our community, we help young people aged 5-25 to feel safe, heard and hopeful for their future. 

Join our team

We're currently recruiting for three paid roles (based in Bath) and volunteers across Bath & North East Somerset:

- Fundraising Manager (22.5 hours per week)

- Community & Events Fundraiser (15 hours per week)

- Mentoring Services Practitioner (30 hours per week, term-time plus)

- Volunteer Mentors (1-2 hours per week)

Check out the details below or get in touch to find out more:

01225 429 694 I inspire@mentoringplus.net 

Permanent PAYE c.22.5 days per week
Flexible hours and hybrid working
From £16 per hour depending on experience

Could your creativity, relationship building and team management skills make a real difference to local children and young people?

Mentoring Plus is an award-winning community charity supporting children and young people across Bath & NE Somerset who are struggling with education, family difficulties or emotional wellbeing. Our vision is a world where all young people feel safe, feel heard and feel hopeful for their future.

Our charitably funded work provides trained volunteer mentors and skills-building group activities to help young people feel happier, stay safe, engage with education and reduce risk-taking behaviour.

Young people choose to engage with mentoring even when all other interventions fail. Since 1998 we’ve enabled our community volunteers to support over 2,000 children and young people to feel more confident, improve their wellbeing and pursue positive new interests and pathways.

We’ve held a local authority commission for early help volunteer mentoring since 2005. We’re building a professional mentoring practice to support higher-need young people, and in 2018 won a second commission to support students at risk of school exclusion, renewed in 2025. We also provide open-access youth clubs 2 nights per week.

Why we need your skills

Mentoring Plus currently raises about half its income through charitable sources, and with demand at an all-time high, we’re ambitious to deliver more support.

The charity has a strong record of winning funds from grants and trusts and community sources, and maintains comprehensive impact data, assets and information resources to share with funders.

We’re now looking for an energetic fundraising professional keen to help shape our future by taking our fundraising forward, planning and implementing effective events and campaigns supported by persuasive communications across all channels.

You’ll be at the heart of a small, friendly and committed team and working to maintain and build charitable income from all sources. This role needs your creativity, knowhow, planning skills, networking and team co-operation to really make a difference to young people in our region.

With support from the whole team and leadership group, you’ll apply your relevant skills, experience and management strengths to planning and implementing an agreed strategy across all funding sources, taking personal responsibility for fundraising from individuals and businesses.

You’ll help build and maintain relationships with key donors, representing our work and ensuring young people are heard. You’ll ensure we’re accountable for our impact with effective impact reporting and evaluation. You’ll help shape a multi-channel communications strategy in the best interests of our beneficiaries. And you’ll support the implementation of new and developing earned income streams in support of our work

We’re supported by a skilled Trustee board offering practical help, advice and scrutiny, and our working environment is fully committed to flexibility and personal development, including appropriate training and wellbeing support.

Our working environment is fully committed to flexibility and personal support, including regular reflective practice supervision. We aim to develop staff, giving them scope to build skills and influence decision-making.  

You’ll need to be in our Bath office (which has free parking) regularly but can work from home in between. Your hours can be worked flexibly by agreement e.g. long / short days, different school holiday hours etc. 

If you fit this bill and want to make a real difference to young people struggling with tough challenges, we’d love to hear from you. Please download this job description and person specification. 

We operate Safer Recruitment guidelines for all staff so we’ll then need you to complete and return this application form (submission details are included in the form).  

Application deadline: 10am Mon 22nd Sept 2025
Interviews planned in the week following

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process to determine how well you meet the criteria in the role profile. Please be sure to make this explicit and do not assume we can infer this information e.g. from a previous job title or similar. We cannot accept a CV or an application in another format. 

 

Permanent PAYE c.15 hours/wk
Flexible hours, hybrid working
From £14.40 per hour depending upon experience

Make a real difference in this community-focused fundraising role

Mentoring Plus is an award-winning community charity supporting children and young people across Bath & NE Somerset who are struggling with education, family difficulties or emotional wellbeing. Our vision is a world where all young people feel safe, feel heard and feel hopeful for their future.

Our charitably funded work provides trained volunteer mentors and skills-building group activities to help young people feel happier, stay safe, engage with education and reduce risk-taking behaviour.

Young people choose to engage with mentoring even when all other interventions fail. Since 1998 we’ve enabled our community volunteers to support over 2,000 children and young people to feel more confident, improve their wellbeing and pursue positive new interests and pathways.

We’ve held a local authority commission for early help volunteer mentoring since 2005. We’re building a professional mentoring practice to support higher-need young people, and in 2018 won a second commission to support students at risk of school exclusion, renewed in 2025. We also provide open-access youth clubs 2 nights per week.

How your skills can make a difference

This is an exciting, flexible opportunity to join a small and committed fundraising team at Mentoring Plus. We’re looking for someone who is a confident event organiser and relationship builder. As part of an energetic team, you’ll be responsible for a number of key fundraising events over the year, while supporting campaigns, networking and enterprise projects in between.

You'll support the organisation to engage community fundraisers and donors to maximise unrestricted funding from our community.

With the support of the team, you'll plan, promote and implement keynote fundraising events to raise funds. You'll apply commercial nous and creativity to support the delivery of enterprise activities.

And you'll connect the charity to community volunteers, advocates and supporters and positively influence the community’s awareness and perception of our work.  

There's a detailed job description and role profile here. If you think you could fit the bill, we'd love to receive a completed application form from you. Submission details are in the form. Please note that we operate Safer Recruitment procedures and cannot accept an application in any other format.

Application deadline: 10am Monday 22nd Sept 2025

Interviews planned in the week following

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process to determine how well you meet the criteria in the role profile. Please be sure to make this explicit and do not assume we can infer this information e.g. from a previous job title or similar.

Mentoring Plus is committed to maximising inclusion irrespective of age, gender identity, heritage, ethnicity, background, life experiences, disabilities, learning difficulties, lifestyle, beliefs etc, provided that individuals are able to meet the requirements of the role with appropriate support. We operate a strict equal opportunities policy for both adults and young people. Our central Bath premises have parking and are wheelchair accessible.

Safer Recruitment procedures will be followed including an enhanced DBS check and employment references taken and verified.

Are you looking for a fulfilling and flexible way to make a real difference in your community? Volunteering with us and mentoring a young person is a brilliant way to do just that.

About volunteer mentoring

A volunteer mentor isn’t there to fix or solve problems, but to simply show up each week with a smile, to listen, chat, and help their mentee take part in activities that interest them and that they’ll enjoy.

For a young person who may be struggling at home, at school, or in their community, having a kind and caring adult by their side each week can transform their confidence, happiness, and wellbeing. Our volunteers often tell us they gain just as much as they give.

If you're kind, open-minded and available 1-2 hours a week in BaNES, we'd love to hear from you. 

Check out our website to find out more or contact us: volunteering@mentoringplus.net 

Mentoring Plus is committed to maximising inclusion irrespective of age, gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, background, life experiences, disabilities, learning difficulties, lifestyle, beliefs etc, provided that individuals are able to meet the requirements of the role with appropriate support. We operate a strict equal opportunities policy for both adults and young people. Our central Bath premises have parking and are wheelchair accessible.

Safer Recruitment procedures will be followed including an enhanced DBS check and employment references taken and verified.

If you need any recruitment information in a more accessible format, please contact us and we will do our best to assist.