CWU Mentoring Exchange Scheme
Branches will be aware that the Equality, Education and Development department have relaunched the CWU’s Mentoring Exchange Scheme.
The renewed scheme is now much more structured, allowing mentors and mentees the ability to balance busy work schedules with easy to use guides and resources.
Mentoring is a widely recognised succession tool that helps to assist individuals through structured and focused support, through sharing of experience and skills. Used formally and informally by many different organisations mentoring helps to develop the potential of individuals with less experience by pairing them with representatives with more experience. It is a proven way of increasing confidence, knowledge and networking to help open up opportunities for advancement.
Mentoring has been proven to be a particularly useful tool for helping to develop and bring through Women, BAME, Disability, LGBT+ and Young Worker Representatives.
If you think that being mentored could be right for you, you can apply to the scheme if you meet the following criteria:
- That you are a representative of the CWU
- That you wish to progress and develop in the CWU
- That you have a readiness to invest time and commitment to the partnership
- That you have your branch support to participate in the scheme
If you are interested in becoming a CWU mentee please submit a completed application by 3rd November 2023. You can access the electronic application by using the following link: Mentee Application
Please forward any enquiries relating to this LTB to equality&education@cwu.org in the first instance.
Yours sincerely,
Kate Hudson
Head of Equality, Education & Development
CWU Eastern No5 Branch 
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