Benefits to Mentor

Gain insights from the mentee’s background and history that can be used in the mentor’s professional and personal development.
Increase skills in mentoring, counselling and listening.
Gain satisfaction in sharing life experience with others.
Build confidence through helping others.
Sense of ‘giving back’ and increase in responsibility.

"I first came to Together Women after being sentenced to a Community Order with TWP. I had been arrested for a drink driving offence which was my first offence. I had issues around domestic abuse and mental health which had led to an increase in my drinking. After my offence, I left my job and was spending a lot of time in my house. I engaged with TWP weekly for six months where I received a lot of support around my issues, I finally had someone to talk to. I also did a personal development course. I left the violent relationship I was in, gained my own accommodation and haven't drunk for over a year. I decided to be a mentor after I left TWP and was wanting something challenging for myself and something meaningful to fill my time with. I did the training because I wanted to help other women see there was a light at the end of the tunnel, because that is what TWP showed me and that helped me a lot. Since being a mentor, I feel more confident now in myself and excited to try new things and help more people."

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Independent Domestic Violence Advocate [IDVA] or Experienced key worker

Together Women provides holistic services to women and girls with multiple and complex issues across Yorkshire, Humberside and the North West of England. Our centres offer safe, women-only spaces from which key workers provide needs assessment, action-planning, support and case management for women. This role is to lead on the Comic Relief, Violence Against Women and Girls contract which supports women recovering from domestic abuse. It covers the organisation’s sites in Hull and East Riding.
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Offender Mentoring is a fast-growing intervention delivered across sectors in England and Wales.
Benefits to organisation

Improving needs-responsive services for women Increasing service user involvement and led services Enhancing strategic business initiatives Communication and sharing of values, goals and plans Supporting the creation of a multicultural workforce by creating relationships among diverse groups and allowing equal access to mentoring
Benefits to community

Encourage community involvement. Promote the inclusion of female offenders and vulnerable women in community. Greater impact on children and families of women offenders. Increase number of positive volunteers and role models in communities. Bring new skills and experiences to the work with female offenders.

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About Us

Together Women are a charitable organisation, working to support women and girls with multiple and complex needs across the North of England.
Our Centres

LOOKING FOR SPACE? Together Women centres offer free space to groups or individuals looking to deliver or develop gender specific activities in the community. Get in touch
Volunteer

Together Women work with over 100 volunteers every year. Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield and Hull all offer volunteer programmes.
Sheffield

Sheffield's Together Women centre provides holistic and gender-specific support to women with a variety of needs across the city of Sheffield.
Get involved

Together Women works to integrate women with multiple and complex needs in to the community to reduce isolation and increase social activity. Together Women invites customers, volunteers, agencies and community services to work alongside us and help provide a wider support network for the women we work with.
Hull

Hull Together Women is a city-centre based women’s centre delivering a variety of support and courses within a confidential and safe environment.
Leeds

Together Women’s centre in Leeds delivers holistic support in a safe and confidential environment to women with multiple and complex needs in Leeds city centre and the surrounding districts.
Bradford

Our Bradford Together Women centre delivers holistic support in a safe and confidential environment to women with complex needs in the Bradford district. Please note the Bradford centre has now moved to Carlisle Business Centre. (See below for a map and directions to the new location).
Gender Specific Mentoring

Together Women's Gender-Specific Mentoring Toolkit has tools and resources to help you develop an effective mentoring programme for female offenders. It will also support you in engaging with female offenders and implementing a gender-specific approach within your service or practice.