Impact Report SPREADS 121223 - Flipbook - Page 28
Supporting leaders
At the current time, when charity
leaders are facing demands and
challenges like never before, mentoring
can provide the supportive space
they need to discuss their problems,
explore options and feel like they are
not alone at the top. Many charity
leaders tell us that mentoring has
been transformative for them.
We started 126 new mentoring assignments with Chief
Executives, emerging leaders and Board Chairs who
bene昀椀tted from one to one guidance and learning from
volunteer mentors in the year. Mentoring continues to be
in high demand and accounted for 24% of our intensive
support (consultancy and mentoring combined).
We arrange regular re昀氀ective sessions for our volunteer
mentors to share their re昀氀ections con昀椀dentially, and
to learn from one another. This year the number of
re昀氀ective sessions increased to 20 (from 14 in the
previous year), supporting our volunteer mentors to
continuously improve their mentoring practice.
We are proud to report that 100% of charity leaders
would recommend our mentoring to others, and 100%
also reported excellent, very good or good learning from
their mentor/mentee partnership, an increase from 97%
last year.
“Cran昀椀eld Trust’s Mentoring Programme
has provided me with the time and space
to have important conversations with
someone who knows and understands
the not-for-pro昀椀t sector. I would highly
recommend this to any other charity
leaders and would like to thank Cran昀椀eld
Trust for this brilliant opportunity.”
126
24%
20
mentoring assignments were started in the year
of one to one support (consultancy
and mentoring) was mentoring
mentor re昀氀ective sessions held in the year
100%
of charity mentees would recommend
Cran昀椀eld Trust mentoring
100%
of mentees reported excellent, very good or good
learning from their mentor/mentee partnership
99%
were very satis昀椀ed or satis昀椀ed
with the mentoring relationship
96%
reported that mentoring exceeded
or met their expectations
96%
rated their increase in con昀椀dence
as excellent, very good or good
96%
reported their improvement in capabilities
as excellent, very good or good
Children and young people’s charity, South East
“Running any organisation, especially a
small charity, can be a lonely and tough
role. Having an independent supportive
person with whom to talk things through
can help enormously. It is also can be an
enjoyable and worthwhile experience for
the mentor as it is a very effective way of
making a big difference.”
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Charity supporting children, Gloucestershire
