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Neighbourhood-Based Peer Mentoring: Building Community from Within ​

Our Neighbourhood-Based Peer Mentoring represents a powerful grassroots approach that transforms young people's lives the spaces which they live.

Turning isolation into connected communities of mutual support.

Rather than extracting young people from their environments, this model recognises the social housing estates and the people that live on them as sites of strength, relationship-building, and positive change.

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Using strengths-based approaches

Since 2019, we have been operating directly on social housing estates in Homerton in Hackney. Our peer mentoring model leverages the organic relationships that already exist within the community.

Creating better Lives

Young people aged 14-21 are trained as peer mentors to support younger residents aged 8-14 who may be experiencing lack of opportunities, social networks, educational challenges, the results of youth violence, mental health, social isolation, and barriers to accessing services

An asset-led ecosystem 

The beauty of this approach lies in its proximity - peer mentors and mentees often live in the same blocks, and our team lives either in or close to the neighbourhood, creating authentic relationships built on shared experiences and geographical belonging. Supporting our team, including peer mentors are an amazing network of parent supports who assist with delivering and promoting our services and corporate volunteers who provide free career mentoring.

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Current Funders 

The National Lottery Community Fund

The Gosling Foundation

Hackney Youth Leaders Project

 Training + Skills Development  
​+ Career Mentoring

Based at Homerton Library, Hackney, East London, The TML Youth Leadership Programme allows young people to develop leadership skills and a growth mindset to prepare for the next stage of their life.

We aim to make participants stand out as role models in the community.

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Peer Mentoring Project

 Safe Friendships + Trips
+ Skills Development  + Mentoring

Join to create a board game with our Youth Leaders and trained Peer Mentors, who will work together to create a new board game that helps young people to navigate life's ups and downs, to help make a difference to someone else's life.

In the process, you'll get peer mentoring and develop real-world skills using AI and project management tools, to develop your qualities, character and identity.

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What is Game Time 

 Team Challenges + Training
+ Skills Development  + Mentoring

The TML Youth Leadership Programme (Game Time 2.0) allows young people to develop leadership skills and a growth mindset to prepare for the next stage of their life.
We aim to help participants stand out as role models in their community. We do this by giving youth opportunities to;​

1. Reflect on their current situation 
2. Explore their strengths and fine tune their character 
3. Reframe their experiences to navigate life's ups and downs 
4. Develop the key qualities that will make them stand out as role models in their community.

After the programme, participants will receive 12 hours of career mentoring from corporate volunteers via our CareerXplore offer.

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Become a Game TIme Youth Leader

Each year young people aged 13-18 take the lead, as peer mentors, supporting our Game Time project to ensure every child matters and is engaged in the programme.

Qualifications our youth leaders gain include: First Aid, L1 - L2 Youth Sports coach, Peer Mentoring Certificate, Food Hygiene, Open Learning Certificate in Understanding Customers, and AqA Award in Project Management.

Our youth leaders also gain:
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- The qualities and character required for work
- Confidence in sharing views, opinions and ideas
- Self esteem and value of life
- Improved quality of life
- Growth mindset and beneficial decision making
- Better understanding of career options / routes
​- Confidence in travelling in and around Hackney.

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