Are you in Year 11 and looking for advice about your next steps in education or your future career? Would you like free, 1:1 and bespoke support from a mentor with experience of higher education and the workplace?

The Brightside Online Mentoring Programme is a flexible, free online opportunity for you to speak to a mentor with experience of higher education and the workplace.

This opportunity is completely flexible. It’s a text-based messaging app with no requirements for video calls or live chat, directly accessible from your phone.

Why take part?

• To receive 1:1, tailored and bespoke support about your future from someone with experience of careers and higher education.
• To have an open conversation about your ideas, hopes, and aspirations with someone who is there to listen and provide advice, not judge.
• To develop your communication and research skills, as you engage in a meaningful conversation and learn more about different pathways.
• Find out more about yourself and where your interests could take you.

What students say about online mentoring:

“Really useful in helping you decide what direction to go in after college.”

“It has improved my confidence in knowing what I need to do to achieve my goals.”

“My mentor was really friendly and welcoming and motivating.”

Brightside mentoring platform information document: gmhigher.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Brightside-Mentoring-Platform.pdf 

Brightside mentoring safeguarding document: gmhigher.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/National-Programmes-Safeguarding.pdf