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We are continuing our fight to stop Glasgow City Council's planned cuts. We are overwhelmed by the support so far but we've got a long way to go. You can help by signing and sharing our petition. Our young people need their voices to be heard:
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📣
@scotgov
has announced funding to support the introduction of MCR’s mentoring programme across Scotland! 🎉
We are thrilled at this opportunity to reach thousands more inspiring young people across the country, who will now have the chance to have a mentor.
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A slightly astounded
@idmacritchie
winner of Lifetime achievement award!!! Well deserved Iain👏
#heraldevents
#scotdiversity
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1st batch of laptops on their way to their new homes 👩🧑💻! We are delighted to be providing 300 laptops & WiFi connections to young people across the country.
These vital tools are the bridge to young people connecting with their mentor & education.
#BeTheBridge
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So honoured tonight to win the Education award tonight at the
#inspiringcity
awards. This award truly goes out to every single young person and mentor - you are the true winners.
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For more than 13 years, we've supported Glasgow's care-experienced young people to find, grow & use their talents. Now we're thrilled to announce that
@GlasgowCC
have made mentoring permanent in education.
#BeTheBridge
Full story in
@heraldscotland
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We are honoured to have hosted
@NicolaSturgeon
@ScotGovFM
today to meet and listen to our mentored young people as part of the 1000 Voices pledge. Our YST Ambassadors shared their inspiring stories and hopes for the future of Scotland's young people
#1000voices
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Let's make this year count. ✨ We're looking for volunteers from all walks of life who can
#ShareAnHour
a week to be a mentor for a young person. This one-to-one relationship is what makes the difference to their confidence & future.
➡️ Learn more:
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Wow😀🎉What an honour to win the Third Sector Partnership award with
@GlasgowCC
at
@ScotParl
tonight👇
Look
@mcrpathways
and
@GlasgowCC
just won the Third Sector Partnership Award at Holyrood Public Service Awards
#exciting
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🥳Exciting news! We are delighted for our mentoring programme to have won the 3rd Sector Partnership Award with
@GlasgowCC
last night at the
@ScotParl
Scottish Public Service Awards. We are honoured to support more than 2000 young people across 9 Councils across Scotland.
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We are delighted to share
@scotsen
&
@RobertsonTrust
study proving mentoring's statistical impact on care-experienced young people's education outcomes. Mentoring bridges potential with opportunities. More details, stats & stories to come.
#BeTheBridge
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Glasgow City Council is planning to cut funding for MCR Pathways school-based Coordinators. Our incredible mentoring community supports over 2000 young people in Glasgow and is independently proven to have a transformational impact for the city’s most disadvantaged young people..
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“I’ve definitely got a new pal out of being a mentor, that’s for sure.” Bored watching the same festive films on repeat? Take a few minutes to learn how you could make a life-changing difference to a disadvantaged young person in 2018.
Find out more:
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This week we were delighted to announce that
@fire_scot
have become our first emergency services partner! They have committed to encourage their staff across the country to mentor &
#BeTheBridge
for care-experienced young people across Scotland.
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A huge thank you to
@fire_scot
! They recently opened their doors to our young people. Showing what it takes to be a Fire Fighter & leaving our young people totally inspired!
Can your organisation inspire some of Glasgow's most vulnerable young people for an afternoon?
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The MCR Pathways Team have been showing their support for
#CareDay21
by taking part in the
@whocaresscot
Selfie Challenge. 💕
Care Day is an international celebration of the care-experienced community.
Find out how you can get involved:
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📢 We are thrilled to announce we are actively recruiting new mentors again! These past few months have been hard on us all, especially our young people. With your help we can rebuild their confidence & make the future brighter. Can you
#BeTheBridge
? 💙
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We're absolutely THRILLED to have won the PEOPLE MAKE GLASGOW award at last night's
#inspiringcity
awards!
#mcr
#ygt
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We surveyed over 1,000 young people across Scotland on their experience of lockdown - to capture their voice & challenges.
This vital report highlights mental wellbeing, returning to school, impact on their future and more.
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Thank you to everyone who is continuing to raise their voices for our Glasgow school-based Coordinators, our 1200 Mentors and most importantly the 2000 young people we support. Together, we will do everything we can to reverse these planned cuts
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YAAAAAAAS! Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is for our our amazing talented young people!
#InspiringCity
#PeopleMakeGlasgow
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Wow! Congratulations again
@idmacritchie
well deserved and big congratulations to all the nominees in this category doing fantastic work across the Sector.🍾
Congratulations to Iain MacRitchie, CEO
@mcrpathways
, for winning the 'SCVO Director of the Year - Third Sector' award.
Judges said Iain's combination of passion, expertise & personal qualities are inspiring! 🏆
#IoDScotAwards
@scvotweet
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We are thrilled to share that MCR Pathways has been announced as a winner of
@csjthinktank
Awards 2021, presented by Bake Off legend,
@PrueLeith
!🎉 What an honour to be recognised in the UK's "Charity Oscars"!
#CSJAwards2021
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📢We are delighted to announce big changes to reach 4000 young people across the country!
We welcome
@GraemeMcE
as our new CEO who, with Chairman
@idmacritchie
, will lead MCR to support young people across 75 schools in 12 councils this academic year.
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That moment when you get to tell your mentor & the whole world that you've just been accepted into college 😍
#priceless
!
Can you
#BeTheBridge
?
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Our mentoring programme operates in all 30 secondary schools throughout
@GlasgowCC
. 👩👧 The schools highlighted in red & orange on our map show where we need more mentors.🧡❤️
Could you volunteer 1 hour a week in one of these areas?
Learn more:
#Glasgow
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"When you look at me, you see me, not someone broken by my circumstances, not someone to be pitied or ‘fixed’, just me, a young person who is brave." Thank you to everyone who joined us today. Thank you to our young people for being our constant inspiration.
#BraveNotBroken
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This is
#TheRippleEffect
of mentoring! Kieran has started a Theatre Company for care-experienced young people in
#Glasgow
to share their stories & he's looking for people to join. Check out the article for more details
@whocaresscot
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..In light of this, your voice is more important than ever. We encourage our Glasgow community to contact their local Councillor and share why mentoring changes lives. Let's protect our youth's future! Read more here:
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In 2020, can you
#BeTheBridge
between talent and possibilities? Just 1 hour a week & you can help a young person build a foundation that lasts a lifetime.
Start your mentoring journey today ✔️- please retweet & use
#BeTheBridge
#volunteer
#Scotland
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We know mentoring changes lives. Let's protect the future of young people in our communities by making our voices heard. Together we can challenge the decision to cut funding in Glasgow. Sign the petition:
@GlasgowCC
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Thank you to all mentors who joined us at St Mirren yesterday. The energy towards protecting the future of our young people in Glasgow was incredible. Thank you to all of the team at
@saintmirrenfc
for hosting us.
Please sign and share our petition:
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Thank you to Glasgow mentor
@zanyzaz
for speaking out and raising awareness against
@GlasgowCC
planned cuts
@heraldscotland
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Today is Results Day for our Young People and MCR Pathways is supporting the DYW
#NoWrongPath
campaign.
The
#NoWrongPath
campaign aims to provide reassurance to young people receiving their results in Scotland. Like our colleagues, share your
#NoWrongPath
journey today.
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Congratulations to
@WhitehillSec
@WhitehillYGT
Pathways Coordinator Sharon Young for being awarded the Special Recognition of Achievement & the amazing work you've done to support hundreds of young people to achieve their
#dofE
#dofeyabelter
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Every young person has a talent, can you help a young person to unleash theirs?
#BecomeAMentor
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"I implore you to listen to the experiences of those who have directly benefited from MCR Pathways, like myself, and take decisive action to ensure its continued operation in schools. Our collective future depends on it."
@ThePromiseScot
@LeaderGCC
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Education makes the difference, but care-experienced pupils struggle to succeed when home is chaotic. But when we come together, we can change this story. Can you become a mentor & help our most disadvantaged young people find their spark?
#BeTheBridge
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Front page for MCR in today's
@heraldscotland
as
@GlasgowCC
announces our mentoring programme will move into all 30 GCC secondary schools.
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3 years ago only 48% of the most disadvantaged young people in
#Glasgow
went on to a full-time job, college or uni after leaving school – this number is now 81%! We need the YOUR help to continue to reach every young person in need.
#peoplemakeglasgow
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📢We're delighted to announce we &
@Edinburgh_CC
are expanding mentoring in
#Edinburgh
! Our journey began at
@CCHSEdinburgh
& now we are excited to
#BeTheBridge
at
@BroHighOfficial
@Drummond_CHS
@forresterhs
@GracemountHigh
@leithacademy
@LibertonHighHT
@stahsnews
@WHEC_Edin
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We are delighted by this funding announcement and the support of
@THunterF
which recognises the transformational impact of mentoring and the key role it will play in post-Covid recovery for our young people.
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Thank you to
@magnusllewellin
for publishing our founder
@idmacritchie
's response to the uni admission policy change. We're excited to keep working with our partners to make sure all young people are determined by their talents, not their circumstances.
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We are thrilled by today’s announcement 🎉 Thank you to the incredible mentors, schools, partners, our fantastic team and of course the inspiring young people we support. This funding offers us the opportunity to help thousands more young people with a mentor.
A £19.4 million
@scotgov
fund will support a six year mentoring programme to help young people reach their full potential.
#YPGuarantee
Read more➡️
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😮 Wow! What a week! 😄
We are thrilled at the recent announcement of support from
@ScotGovernment
! Huge thanks to everyone who shared their congrats. 🥰
We have even more good news as our Founder & Chair,
@idmacritchie
was featured in the
@Glasgow_Times
:
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Say hello to this fab crew of mentors from Banff,
#Aberdeenshire
🚒! 8/9 of Banff Fire Station's team members mentor, can you join them &
#BeTheBridge
?
@fire_scot
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Our night of creative performance kicks off with our young ambassador hosts
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Getting excited for the
#scotdiversity
Education award announcement! All the team here from school coordinators to our Nest Steps gang🤞🏼
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🎉🎉🎉 CONGRATS to all 100+ amazing YST young people from across
#Glasgow
who achieved their
#DofE
bronze tonight!
#dofeyabelter
@GlasgowsDofE
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This week we'll share MCR's amazing Next Steps film! Featuring incredible stories from our young people and mentors
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We believe everyone has what it takes to become a great mentor! 🙌 Whatever your hobbies or interests, you have something wonderful to offer a young person. ✨
By sparing just 1 hour a week, you could
#BeTheBridge
between talent & opportunity.
Sign up:
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Delighted to meet
@jamiehepburn
, Youth Employment & Training Minister, today at
@Lornshill
Academy. So inspiring to hear from young people & Deputy Head Phil Arnold on the impact of MCR & our mentors, transforming young people’s lives.
#YPGuarantee
@ScotGovEdu
@ClacksCouncil
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Doesn't matter if you're in Craiglang or
#Clackmannanshire
, mentoring is making the difference 😉
Big thanks to
@govindajeggy
for sharing our call for mentors in Clacks!
#BeTheBridge
@ClacksCouncil
#StillGame
#Navid
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Be the person who helps turn a young person’s talent into a future of opportunity
#volunteer
#becomeamentor
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Thank you to all our mentors & partners
@GlasgowCC
👏. We celebrated them at a breakfast gala this morning at the City Chambers. The council have been our biggest partner & are helping us reach the 1000 more mentors we need to reach capacity in Glasgow
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Young people with care experience need a space to share their stories and we need the wisdom to listen. Here's a piece of Sharon's story.
#CareExperiencedWeek
#CareExperienced
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Excited to be at the Glasgow Duke of Edinburgh Awards. HUGE group of YGT young people receiving their awards this evening. 👏👏
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#MCRinTheNews
👉"New Scheme To Help Youngsters Find Road To Success Launched In Inverclyde"
By Clair Amber Young
@greenocktele
'The motivation, commitment and resilience pathways programme is now up and running at
@invacad
and
@ndhs1
.'
Read the full story:
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These cuts tell "vulnerable young people in Glasgow that they are being deprioritised at one of the most pivotal time of their lives." Say no to cuts. Please sign and share our petition:
@DrAnnaBlack1
@HillheadHS
@GlasgowCC
#ThePromise
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Looking for something to watch tonight? The brilliant film 'Resilience' is being shown free on togetherTV (freeview 88, Sky 170, Virgin Media 269 and Freesat 164) today at 8pm. If you haven’t seen it yet – or even if you have - it’s well worth a watch.
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Plans to drop city mentoring scheme ‘will be catastrophic’. In a letter to The Times, business and public-sector leaders are calling on Glasgow City Council to abandon plans to cut funding for MCR Pathways programme. Read the full article:
@timesscotland
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🥁Young people in Scotland are getting their exam results today, and we understand that it can feel daunting.
We’re taking part in
@DYWScot
's campaign to show there is
#NoWrongPath
! Life’s destinations can be a long & winding road, and that’s OK🥰
Here are some examples from us👇
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It's an enormous honour to be here tonight at the
#charityawards
gala, the UKs most prestigious 3rd sector award! We're thrilled to be nominated for the Education & Training category and are looking forward to the night ahead!
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📺Thank you so much
@BBCScotlandNews
for stopping by MCR HQ today to talk to Hayley, her mentor Louise and also our Founder
@idmacritchie
! So proud to share their story, just one of many we see each week, that shows the impact of mentoring
#BeTheBridge
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We WON!! This is for the inspirational young people of Glasgow and our fantastic mentors!
@HeraldSociety
#societyawards16
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🎉 Mentoring Milestone! We're excited to celebrate that we've now reached over 50 mentor matches throughout our three
@ClacksCouncil
Schools! 👏
Learn more about mentoring in
#Clackmannanshire
:
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Welcome to our National Conference
#BraveNotBroken
🙌! 500 mentors, business leaders and policy makers have joined us to hear from our young people & be part of the conversation on
#MentalHealth
. Use & follow
#BraveNotBroken
for the latest.
#Showtime
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We are truly grateful to all of our young people, mentors, schools, funders partners and to everyone involved! Thank you!
#societyawards16
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We're excited to be at the Independent Care Review, countdown to launch! A huge thank you for the young people who contributed👏
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Breaking mews! 😸
Our HR (Hamster Resources 🐹) team have been busy & we're excited to announce our recent staff changes over lockdown!
We're certain our Barketing team 🐶 will bring a fresh paw-spective, & it's an op-purrtunity to introduce the new Catvertising department! 🐾
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MCR LAUNCHES 2018
#GiveAnHour
CAMPAIGN!
It might not sound like much, but 1 hour a week listening to & encouraging a disadvantaged young person makes a life-changing difference.
Will you
#GiveAnHour
? Will you change a young person's life for the better?
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Great news from
@st_johnsacademy
in
#PerthandKinross
as they had their first match at the school! 😁
Mentor, Gemma, recently completed her induction and is excited to meet her young person for the first time! 🙌 We can’t wait to hear how they get on!
#MentoringMatters
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"They’re not just losing the mentors, but the one consistent adult they’ve learned to trust. It’s so hard to build up and it’s a destruction to their routine. For some, that’s the only trusting adult they have."
Please sign and share our petition:
Glasgow young people say MCR Pathways 'changed their life' amid funding threat.
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MCR will take over
@GlasgowCC
Chambers tonight! An evening of celebration led by our young people awaits! It follows our founder
@idmacritchie
's award of the city's coveted St Mungo Award for a programme that now supports over 900 disadvantaged youngsters:
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It's a new year - make it really count! Across the country, there are 100s of young people who need a bit of extra support to be their best.
You can
#BeTheBridge
between talent & opportunity; it just takes one hour a week. Can you become a mentor?
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🙌 Huge thank you to all our School Pathways Coordinators who took part in our PC Takeover today!
They’ve each been sharing a glimpse into their daily lives as a PC on our Facebook and Instagram Stories. If you missed it, check out their awesome photos below! 📸
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It's here!!! We're delighted to share with you MCR's brand new film - Bridges That Transform.
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3 days until our National Conference and we are buzzing! Our young ambassadors told us what they're most looking forward to
#BraveNotBroken
#MentalHealth
#TheRippleEffect
#MondayMotivation
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1 year ago today, the Independent Care Review announced
#ThePromise
and Scotland’s ambition for children and young people.
By working together and listening to the voice of our young people, MCR will
#KeepThePromise
.
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📈🎉New MCR Impact Report shows "Our young people are engaging, achieving, attaining and going on to positive destinations in record numbers," Read more at
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We are absolutely delighted to announce our expansion in
#Aberdeen
!
In partnership with
@AberdeenCC
, we're bringing mentoring to 6 schools, expanding from our 2 year pilot at
@stmacharacademy
. Can you join us &
#BeTheBridge
young people need to succeed?
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Thank you to
@heraldscotland
for the powerful interview with Liam, MCR mentor and one of the 1st MCR young people. Words cannot describe how proud we are of all of our young people. Can you
#GiveAnHour
?
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Our fantastic mentor services team have been working together to build our first ever resource boxes for each of our schools! 🎲 The boxes contain popular games and art materials to help break the ice during mentor meetings. 👩👧
➡️ Find out more:
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Lockdown & lack of IT tools has cut many young people off from their vital mentoring relationships.
We are thrilled to provide 300 young people with laptops & internet so they can keep these relationships growing. Listen at 48:15
@BBCRadioScot
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🙌 We're absolutely thrilled that our team &
@GlasgowCC
have been shortlisted for the
#ScottishPublicServiceAwards
!
Congrats to everyone who's been shortlisted - so much brilliant work being done across Scotland 🏴
@scotgov
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"There is a space for us to do more on mental health. We need to take a much for universal approach because there will be times for young people where they need extra support and we need to make sure all our staff and teachers can support them."
@maureen0207
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Thank you so much
@ScotMentoring
for awarding us your project of the year! And thank you to all our mentors, who really are the true winners. We are so excited to continue our national expansion and bring mentoring to young people all across Scotland.
#Scotland
#mentor
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Introducing our new campaign
#TheRippleEffect
! Mentoring makes the difference - when young people are supported the effects ripple out everywhere. This year, we're asking YOU to be part of the
#TheRippleEffect
. Become a mentor👇
#NewYearResolutions
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Lovely words from
@GlasgowCC
Chief Exec Annemarie O'Donnell, "From personal experience, I know that mentoring works. As a council we are a corporate parent. These are our children. You've got to do it. This is our future, this is the future of our young people."
#TheRippleEffect
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Congratulations
@idmacritchie
! 'Regional Director - Glasgow & West' Award from
@The_IoD
. 👏
Over the past 12 years, Iain and the team have strived to ensure young people are determined by their potential, not their circumstances.
#iodscotawards
Congratulations to Iain MacRitchie, CEO & founder
@mcrpathways
, winner of the 'IoD Scotland Regional Director of the Year - Glasgow & West of Scotland'.
Judges were impressed with the real clarity of purpose Iain displays in his role.🏆
#IoDScotAwards
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"Mentoring has also had a positive impact on me, adding a new dimension to my work week" Victoria from
@GlasgowCC
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We love it when our mentors go above & beyond for their young person. 💗
Lorna, who mentors in
@AlvaAcademy
, reached out to the school’s Pathways Coordinator to send her mentee a
#wellbeing
craft box in collaboration with
@OYCIchange
.
What a wonderful gesture. Well done, Lorna!
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Our fab young people from
#Glasgow
&
#Edinburgh
celebrated their
#examresults
with
@NicolaSturgeon
at the
@sqanews
results party. It's fantastic to have the Government so strongly supporting Scotland's care-experienced young people.
@heraldscotland
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We are honoured to have won the Diversity through Education award for our mentors, partners & young people.
We are committed to continue working hard each day to ensure every young person, no matter their background, can succeed.
#ScotDiversity
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Giant, giant congrats to MCR 1st ever Silver
#DofE
winners from
@WhitehillSec
@WhitehillYgt
#Trailblazer
#pioneers
#IamDofE
#dofeyabelter
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There's no shame in needing a bit of extra support, especially right now. 💙
The
@YoungScot
website has loads of brilliant resources to help manage your mental health - excellent for young people & adults alike. Check out their tips 👇
#mentalhealth
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This week we've met Glasgow mentors across all 30 schools affected by the cuts, sharing ways we can all help reverse this decision. Sign our petition, ask 3 of your friends and help us reach our target:
@GlasgowCC
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