Volunteering

Unfold is offering a meaningful opportunity to become a mentor for women with children aged 5 and above, supporting them either online or face-to-face. This role is about providing consistent, compassionate support to women who may be experiencing social isolation, low confidence, or other life challenges. 

Your presence as a mentor can help create space for reflection, connection, and positive change. Through regular mentoring sessions—usually offered weekly over a period of 12 to 24 weeks—you’ll support women in identifying the changes they want to make and the goals they hope to achieve. 

Using a coaching-style approach, you’ll help them build strategies to reach these goals while offering a steady, non-judgemental space to talk through the issues they’re facing. 

As a mentor, you’ll: 

- Empower women to recognise their strengths and work towards meaningful goals. 

- Offer a listening ear and provide emotional, social, and practical support. 

- Help women connect with community groups or services, reducing isolation. 

- Signpost to other organisations when specialist support is needed. 

The impact of your mentoring goes beyond the individual—you’ll be helping to improve family wellbeing, strengthen relationships, and build more connected communities. Many women who engage with Unfold’s mentoring support go on to feel more confident, more connected, and better equipped to navigate everyday challenges. 

Unfold hopes you can offer your time weekly over the mentoring period, but this is entirely flexible and at your discretion. If you're ready to support a woman on her journey to greater confidence and connection, register your interest today and become a mentor with Unfold.

What do you provide for volunteers:

• Access to telephone / online support

• Access to group meetings / socials / team events

• References can be provided after specific period volunteering

• Volunteer handbook available

• Volunteer will have named supervisior

Other info on what you provide

Through our comprehensive training and ongoing support, you will develop skills in positive psychology and coaching style techniques, cover topics including safeguarding, confidentiality, the person-centred approach and the growth mindset all of which will help you to effectively support someone to making steps towards positive change.

What is the application process?

• Informal discussion

• Online application

• References

• Criminal Record Check

Further info on where the opportunity takes place

Although occasionally session are held online, through mentee and mentor testimonies we have seen the positive impact holding sessions in person vs online has, and so we would ask any perspective volunteers to be prepared to be available for all in person session should this be the required need of your mentee. In person session will take place near to where your mentee lives, within Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea boroughs.

Are there any age restrictions?

Need to be over 25

Which interests apply to this role?

• Families & Parenting

Please provide any further info about when you require volunteers:

We ask volunteers to commit to delivering mentoring for 1–2-hours a week, over a period of 24 in person sessions

What are you looking for in your volunteers?

There is no one size fits all, your individuality is what makes you unique! We welcome volunteers age 25+ from all backgrounds, with life experience, who are non-judgemental and will be committed to support other women on their journeys. Your individuality and your life experience is what makes you unique and there is no one size fits all, we ask for your time and committed to help others on their journey to Unfold their full potential and we’ll help you with the rest.

Skills you'll gain.

• Administration and Clerical
• Mentoring and Befriending
• Organisation, Event/Project Management
• Team Work
• Leadership and Management
• Time Management
• Networking and Relationship Building