YBM CALL FOR MENTORS 2024-2025

Thank you for your interest in becoming a YBM mentor. As you know, a career at the Bar is incredibly competitive so your willingness to give back is enormously appreciated not only by us but also this year's applicants.

By way of background, we set up this mentoring scheme three years ago because we believe that the best advice scholarship/pupillage applicants can get is from those who have just gone through the process (and succeeded). We realised that there is no current mentor scheme run exclusively by recently successful applicants.

We are therefore looking for the following mentors:
- Those who secured GDL scholarships at one of the Inns of Court in the last 4 years.
- Those who secured Bar Course scholarships at one of the Inns of Court in the last 4 years.
- Those who secured pupillage in the last 4 years.

Our reasoning for seeking such recent applicants as our mentors is because the application process is constantly changing (particularly through the Pupillage Gateway) and our advice needs to be up-to-date.

The expectation, if you choose to volunteer as a mentor, is that you agree to:

- Mentor at least 1 mentee throughout the 2024-2025 application year (but willingness to mentor more is much appreciated);
- Be contacted about matters relating to Young Bar Mentoring; and
- Promote any of our wider activities.

More about our expectations can be found in our mission statement here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FhpeCvtmjNZ6ZsYc-r00ds1XWL9ZoPHF/view?usp=sharing

Unless you express a preference for the specific type of mentee background (to be done by emailing youngbarmentoring@gmail.com), we will make the best possible matches on a first-come first-served basis, and on a rolling basis. The Bar Course and GDL scholarship mentoring is primarily intended for help with the interview stage of the process, but those who sign up earlier may be able to be matched for the application stage.

We would be grateful if you can kindly fill in this google form as soon as possible. We will be in touch in due course to allocate mentees.

Best wishes,

Nick Leah and Roseanna Cawthray Stern (Founders of Young Bar Mentoring)

Zara Yusuf and Sharanya Sanjay (Young Bar Mentoring Co-ordinators, 2024-2025)

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Tick the following options that apply to you 
(N.B. Please select the Bar Course Scholarship option if you have applied and interviewed for the Bar Course Scholarship specifically, rather than automatically being granted it after receiving the GDL Scholarship, as is the case for Inner Temple GDL Scholarship recipients).
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