CLEAR is the local delivery partner for the TimeBank Time Together mentoring scheme. Mentors, who are UK citizens, spend about five hours a month supporting, guiding and encouraging their mentees as they seek to achieve their goals.
The project aims to:
∑ Speed up the integration of refugees into UK society enabling refugees to realise their full potential and make more effective use of public services.
∑ Promote positive images of refugees in the media, helping to break down barriers between cultures, and encourage community cohesion.
∑ Enhance refugees' employment prospects by placing them in volunteering opportunities where they can contribute their skills to the host community.
Since its launch in 2002, Time Together has recruited and matched around 600 refugees with volunteer mentors nationally, and more than 2,000 people have registered their interest in volunteering on the scheme.
If you are interested in joining the Time Together programme, as a mentor or mentee, call John Linford on (023) 8022 1702 or e-mail john@clearproject.org.uk.
For more information on the TimeBank Time Together programme, go to www.timebank.org.uk.