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This Week at TWMAD: When Trust Creates Space to Talk About Safety
How relationship-led mentoring can create space for safeguarding concerns to be shared, recognised and passed through the right channels.
This Week at TWMAD: Listening, Persistence and Positive Choices
Across 11 distinct completed sessions, mentors recorded young people speaking up about learning, persisting with a practical task and responding calmly to a setback.
This Week at TWMAD: New Beginnings, Everyday Discoveries and Learning That Lasts
This week’s TWMAD mentoring highlights explore education transitions, practical learning, adapting support and specialist staff training.
This Week at TWMAD: Reflection, Confidence and Positive Engagement
Across 18 distinct completed sessions captured in newly submitted reports, mentors recorded progress in education engagement, self-awareness, emotional regulation and confidence.
This Week at TWMAD: Confidence, Communication and Positive Choices
Across 13 distinct completed sessions, mentors recorded progress in communication, confidence, reflection and positive choices. This bulletin shares anonymised, evidence-grounded highlights from 14–18 September 2026.
This Week at TWMAD: Small Steps, Growing Confidence and Meaningful Change
Across 19 completed sessions, young people took positive steps in confidence, communication, education and engagement. Here is what meaningful progress looked like at TWMAD this week.
Supporting Reece’s Journey to a Brighter Future
A Story of Transformation Through Mentoring At TWMAD, we believe that the right support at the right time can make all the difference. When Reece was referred to us, he was facing a challenging transition—moving [...]
TWMAD Celebrates Youth Music Fund Award for Future Beat Makers Project
TWMAD Celebrates Youth Music Fund Award for Future Beat Makers Project Together We Make A Difference is thrilled to announce that we have been granted funding from the Youth Music Fund to launch our innovative [...]
From Gang Life to Greatness! Jack’s Journey of Transformation
Referral information Jack is a charismatic and talented young person with a passion for DJing and music. Raised by his mother alongside many siblings and without a relationship with his father, who is in prison. Jack [...]
How TWMAD is Helping a Child to Build Resilience
At TWMAD, we believe every young person has the potential to thrive, even when life presents significant challenges. Seb, a Year 8 student and a Looked-After Child (LAC), exemplifies this belief. Seb is a likeable [...]
Planting Seeds for the Future: The Impact of “Ignite Your Future”
At TWMAD, our first mentoring programme, Ignite Your Future, marked the beginning of our journey to inspire the next generation. Launched in late 2017, we delivered this programme intensively into several schools in partnership with [...]
Tailoring mentoring to children’s individual needs
Kerry initially faced challenges engaging with services, driven by a strong desire to avoid feeling "different." She also became entangled in negative friendships that reinforced her sense of isolation. With a possible undiagnosed Autism Spectrum [...]