Mentor With Us

Make a difference to the next generation

Mentoring for Debate Mate is the perfect volunteering opportunity for university students. You’ll make a tangible difference to young people’s lives, gain CV-boosting skills, and exposure to our partner organisations, who are always looking for graduates to hire!

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Make an Impact

Our programmes are proven to help change the lives of young people around the world. Join us and make a real difference to the next generation, equipping them the human skills to thrive in the future world of work.

Enhance your CV

You don’t need any previous tutoring, teaching or debating experience to join!

Become a mentor and you’ll develop key employability skills – all things your future employer will love.

Recieve a Stipend

We pay our mentors £20 for each one-hour debate session they deliver, reimburse travel costs and give you a food budget because we understand that university can be busy and we value your time.

Flexible Scheduling

Juggling university, part-time work, hobbies, and a social life can be tricky. Luckily, at Debate Mate we make it easy to fit around your schedule, so you can work as much or as little as you like.

Fully Supported

Mentoring with us needn’t be stressful – we find the pupils so you don’t have to, give you loads of helpful training and lesson resources, and we’re always on-hand to answer your questions.

How it works – A simple 4-step process

Step 1

Assessment

Once you have pre-registered using the link below, our team will be in touch to invite you to one of our 90-minute online assessment sessions. These sessions include a presentation from us about what we do, delivery of one of our activities by you and an informal interview.

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Training

You will be invited to our mentor training if you succeed at the assessment stage. This training includes safeguarding, diversity and inclusion, talks from some of our partners and supporters and an in-depth look at our curriculum.

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Allocation

Now that you have completed training, you will be allocated a primary or secondary school no further than an 90-minutes travel from your accommodation or university campus.

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Begin Mentoring

You will mentor there once a week for an hour, delivering our curriculum to students aged 10-16.

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Mentoring changed my life!
MirandaMentor, West Midlands
Debate Mate mentoring was the highlight of my degree.
Watching young people improve through the programme was incredibly empowering.
SamMentor, London
Debate Mate is the best thing I did at university.
The team were incredibly supportive – who would have thought I would have travelled the world with Debate Mate.
MaeveMentor, Manchester