our mentoring programmes
School-Based Mentoring
Igniting Potential Through School-Based Mentoring
The School Based mentoring programme provides primary aged tamariki with a role model and a friend to talk to and share the experiences of growing up within school grounds.
For one hour a week, for the duration of the school year, mentors meet with their mentee and engage in activities on school grounds.
Community-Based Mentoring
Shaping Futures with Community-Based Mentoring
This is the traditional Big Brothers Big Sisters relationship. It happens after school or on the weekend.
It’s all about an adult volunteer (over 18) and a young person (aged between 6 & 12) spending one-to-one time together, initially for one hour a week for a minimum of 12 months.
Most sessions take place in the community, at a library, a park, the beach or at other free facilities.
SCHOOL-BASED TEEN MENTORING
College age students (year 11-13) mentor a young person at a local primary school for one hour each week.
Big Brothers Big Sisters provides a resource box that the mentor and young person can use, full of activities and ideas.
*Not available at all branches
Tuakana - Teina
Mā te tuakana te teina e tōtika, mā te teina te tuakana e tōtika
From the older the younger will learn, from the younger the older will learn.
Where the older has responsibilities to the younger, so does the younger to the older.
