What is the Brighter Futures Project?

Brighter Futures is a Mental Health Foundation pilot peer mentoring service for isolated older people in the community working with three project partners. (Better Government for Older People in South Lanarkshire, Glasgow Association for Mental Health and Renfrewshire Association for Mental Health). Download more information by clicking here or call 0141 881 8811 and ask to speak to Laura Griggs. Alternatively, you can email: laurag@ramh.org

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What is Brighter Futures Peer Mentoring?

Mentoring is a one to one relationship based upon trust, confidentiality and mutual involvement. Mentoring works particularly well with people who are at risk of exclusion from society and as part of voluntary and community schemes helping people to play a full part in their communities.

What does a Peer Mentor do?

A Brighter Futures volunteer will be able to use the skills and experience they have built up during their lifetime to help an older person become less isolated and enhance their mental health and well-being.

What are the Benefits of Volunteering?

Voluntary work can offer you many benefits as well as assisting your personal development

Voluntary work can sometimes offer you:

• Work experience

• Recognition that you have something to offer others

• The chance to acquire new skills

• A reference

• An awareness of the difficulties other people face

• Social contact

• Active involvement in the community

• A challenge

• A sense of achievement and satisfaction of doing something worthwhile

• Something to occupy or fill your time

• A chance to give something back to the community

What does a Volunteer Profile look like?

There are many different qualities that volunteers can bring to our work.  These are just some that are important to us – do they describe you?

We need volunteers who are:

• Reliable

• Sensitive

• Understanding

• Interested in people

• Flexible

• Supportive

• Comfortable working as part of a team

• Able to work under their own initiative

• Willing to undergo training

• Friendly

• Good sense of humour

• Dedicated and committed

• Honest and trustworthy

• Caring

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