Meet a Mentor is about building relationships between our mentees – young people looking to progress in the creative & digital industries - and mentors who are professionals working across the creative sectors.
Potential employees benefit from an industry mentor, guidance, skills-building activities, industry talks, networks and access to live jobs and opportunities that Meet a Mentor helps to create.
Employers benefit from culturally and professionally switched on young people who bring fresh approaches to problem solving, presenting infomation & digital storytelling.
Meet a mentor also designs industry bootcamps and training programmes and recuits and pairs talented creatives with leading organisations for briefs, content capturing, videography, live briefs, roles and bespoke recruitment.
FOUNDER
Fran Plowright is the founder and curator of Meet a Mentor. She works closely with industry leaders to co-design and deliver training programmes for young creatives who are currently underrepresented in creative sector and looking for authentic and inspirational real world learning opportunities.
Fran is committed to nurturing new talent and draws from a background in media production and on connections inside the broadcast and creative industries to join the dots, introduce like-minded creatives to one another. She also helps with introductions for those coming into industry to access networks, mentors and land great jobs.
Additionally Fran curates discussions for young people providing a platform for comment, analysis and debate on a range of topics including education, youth culture, diversity, opportunities and identity in modern Britain.Meet a Mentor is also brought to you with support from . . .
Kimberley Nyamhondera - Meet a Mentor Website Manager, Comms Consultant
Kimberley supports with the running of the wider programme and manages the website. Kim was one of the first ever mentees on Meet a Mentor and has worked with Fran since its inception. For her day job Kimberley works in a busy PR and Communications team in a leading publishing company and has experience working across literary fiction and non-fiction book PR campaigns that plug into the London culture and events scene. Most notably, Kimberley worked on the PR campaigns, launching debut fiction and non-fiction titles by authors such as George the Poet, Presenter Ashley John-Baptiste, as well as titles across genres such as nature, science, smart-thinking and memoir.