Upside Youth Mentoring Aotearoa is a community mentoring organisation specialising in the
formation of supportive relationships between volunteers and young people aged between
9 and 13 years. A key focus for the organisation is an ongoing commitment to delivering
excellent quality and tailored mentoring to young people. This document reports on a
research project developed in consultation between Upside and the Centre for Person
Centred Research at Auckland University of Technology to help further enhance their
mentoring programme.