Mentoring

How it works

Your mentoring will be structured around six sessions, each lasting 45 minutes. The frequency of the meetings can be flexibly arranged to suit your schedule and can take place online or face-to-face to suit your needs.

It is important that you are able to build a trusting relationship with your mentor that allows for open conversations. If you aren't happy after the first session, you will be able to cancel with just the one session owing and no further commitment required from you.

For six sessions of 45 minutes, the prices are:

Leadership mentoring: £750+VAT (available to members only)

All other mentoring:

Members

>£500,000 turnover: £680+VAT
<£500,000 turnover: £575+VAT

Non members

£885+VAT

Our mentors

Below is a list of our current mentors. You can request a specific mentor or we can match you with someone, based on your needs. For more information on our coaches, view their full Mentoring profiles

Ben Richardson
Ben has 18 years’ experience working in various roles in the housing and homelessness sector, including five years as a CEO of a homelessness charity. Ben’s experiences focus on issues of change and uncertainty in organisations, and the challenging staff dynamics they can generate.
Ingrid Tennessee
Ingrid’s experience spans 25 years in the Health and Social Care Sector. She is currently CEO of Quo Vadis Trust Housing Association and a serving Trustee at the NCVO. As an accredited BACP Counsellor, she is dedicated to creating a culture that values people, innovation, and individual growth.
Jenny Travassos
Jenny has enjoyed a long career in the housing and homelessness sector for nearly 20 years. She is currently the Director of Housing and Services with The Passage, a role that includes being Director of their Registered Provider, strategy, influencing public affairs, policy development and development of the wider organisation.
Lorraine Richardson
Lorraine is a highly skilled and motivated professional with over 30 years’ experience of working in the homelessness sector, managing large service teams to achieve positive outcomes for clients and residents. Her most recent role was as a Head of Services for a large homelessness charity based in London.
Malcolm Smith
After spending 18 years working in the voluntary sector, Malcolm stepped out of leading charities to become a full-time coach.  A youth worker by profession, Malcolm spent 8 years working within and leading charities which engage with young people in the community and through supported accommodation.
Natalie Allen
Natalie has worked in the homelessness sector since 2014 and joined Birmingham charity SIFA Fireside in October 2022 as CEO. She is an experienced Senior Leader with a history of working in the charity sector, committed to ending homelessness and rough sleeping.
Petra Salva
Petra is a dedicated professional with over 28 years’ experience of managing large scale teams and projects aimed at tackling rough sleeping and homelessness. As an accredited Strategic Intervention Coach, she is passionate about empowering individuals and teams to achieve results and transform themselves and the world around them.
Rachael Williams
Rachael is Chief Executive of Streetwise Opera, an arts organisation working with the homelessness sector to empower people to realise their creative potential. She is also a Trustee for The Running Charity, who work with young people experiencing homelessness and writes the blog “The Art of a Leader” on Substack.
Roger Clark
Roger worked at the Passage for 9 years and more recently, for the last 6 months Roger has worked as an Associate Consultant with Homeless Link on a range of projects including developing new services, strategic reviews and service risk assessments for several organisations.
Sharon McLoughlin
Sharon’s experience has spanned over 30 years including tenancy management, homelessness, community safety and safeguarding. Sharon has a proven track record of consulting with tenants and residents' groups and voluntary agencies alongside statutory agencies. She ensures all are actively involved in neighbourhood-based projects, decision making and policy development.
Steve Coles
Steve has 20 years’ leadership experience in the charity and social enterprise sector. He currently has a portfolio of governance, interim and advisory roles, including as a non-executive director of Compass Wellbeing CIC and has served on the advisory councils of Social Enterprise UK and the RSA as a trustee.
Tanya English
Tanya has 20 years of third sector leadership experience, including being the Executive Director of Fundraising and Communications at St Mungo’s. Tanya has worked across policy, research, service provision, fundraising, communications and campaigning – for organisations small and large with her most recent experience being the transformative Chair for Anti-Slavery International.