John Schofield Trust - 2026 early career & apprentice mentoring scheme

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John Schofield Trust - 2026 early career & apprentice mentoring scheme - reference form

Thank you for writing a reference for an applicant to the John Schofield Trust mentoring scheme. If you are an applicant, please send this form to your referee to fill out themselves.

The purpose of our mentoring scheme is to provide support, encouragement and guidance to journalists who have recently joined the broadcast industry (maximum of five years in the industry).

The John Schofield Trust mentoring scheme puts successful candidates in direct contact for a year with an established journalist in the UK or Ireland, who acts as a mentor for them. Mentees fall into one of two categories:

1. Early career journalists who have been in the industry for two to five years
2. Apprentice and non-graduate trainee journalists. Applicants must be 18 or over and be on a journalism apprenticeship scheme or a non-graduate journalism training scheme.

All candidates must have their application supported by a referee.

References must be submitted by 23:59 on 19th September 2025.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

All personal information provided to the John Schofield Trust will be treated in the strictest confidence.

The John Schofield Trust treats the use and storage of data very seriously. The details you provide on this form will be used by the trustees to assess the candidate’s application to be a mentee for the 2026 scheme.

We retain your details for a year after the scheme and will remove them from our records after this time. Please follow this link to read the John Schofield Trust’s privacy policy https://www.johnschofieldtrust.org.uk/privacy-policy

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