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Pro-Bono Mentoring Case Study: BCLA

  Vivien Freeman, Secretary General of the British Contact Lens Association writes:

 
“The time I have spent with David Harrop, as my mentor, has been both a privilege and a pleasure.  He has fired me with enthusiasm and confidence in my role and turned producing a business plan from a chore into a challenge!”

Pro-Bono Mentoring Case Study: CCHF

Maggie Bishop, recently retired Chief Executive of Children’s Country Holidays Fund and Stafford House Trust, who received mentoring for an extended period, says:

“My first WCoMC mentor arrived just in time to prevent me running away from a seemingly never-ending change management responsibility. Two successive mentors provided invaluable help in ways that included:

  • Time out meeting in a relaxed environment and realising that I was not alone in the problems which needed resolution
  • Taking time to view the organisation from a wider perspective
  • Providing staged reference points and realising that between meetings much had been achieved
  • Talking through a particular issue and finding solutions and new ideas to try out
  • Hearing another point of view or example from business
  • Advice during a period of restructuring and merging two charities”
Children’s Country Holidays Fund