Meet a Mentor

Through a structured series of meetings, mentors offer mentees support, encouragement and advice on how to get that bit closer to employment in their chosen field in the creative and digital industries. Mentees offer mentors a chance to engage with a younger generation of creatives, impart valuable wisdom and learnings and holistically understand what the new generations bring and the challenges they face when entering the creative industries.

As well as the one-to-ones, each evening's sessions has a TED-type talk from an inspirational speaker. Our speakers are leading creatives who share their experience and expertise.

Past speakers include Leonn Ward, Meji Alabi and Dan Emmerson.

Our mentees come from our network of programme participants and Alumni, people who have completed one of our programmes. Find out more about how to take part in one of our programmes by visiting our young creatives or subscribing to our newsletter.

"One of the best things about Meet a Mentor is the honesty with which people can talk about their career journeys and conundrums. Instead of high-gloss stories we can talk about the realities of building a creative career, and some of the barriers to success" Charlie Duffield, Mentee

"Not only was the match pretty much perfect in terms of career goals but mine and my mentor's relationship has really blossomed professionally and personally - it's been great to know that she will always be honest and constructive. Touching base once a month motivated me to be proactive and genuinely have some sort of progress to feedback to my mentor/ wider team" Antonia Odunlami, Mentee

"I feel like I've managed to get a lot of confidence through this programme purely because we are being invited into spaces that usually feel so unattainable. Places that usually can be quite alienating no longer feel so. Just having the privilege to be in spaces you'd never imagine yourself to be really allows room to start believing that other things are possible." Shamica Ruddock, Mentee