Accreditation

Benefits to your organisation

• Benchmark your mentoring programme against recognised National Standards.
• Helps to develop and improve processes and the quality of your programme.
• Adds credibility that your programme meets high standards of best practice.
• Use your accreditation award for bids, tenders, sponsorship, and recruitment.
• Enhanced reputation for your mentoring programme being nationally accredited.
• Opportunity to showcase corporate responsibility with external stakeholders, partners, investors, and communities.
• Increases brand awareness of your organisation and programme.
• Accredited programmes can showcase their award in their marketing materials.
• Opportunity to use award in your media, marketing, and promotions, internally and externally.

Assessors

Assessors are selected based on their background or qualification of assessment, moderation, and quality assurance. Many assessors work within the education sectors, such as qualified teachers or assessors. As per our quality assurance policy, assessments are sampled and reviewed by our quality assurance team prior to accreditation being awarded to ensure the continuity of assessment.

The National Mentoring Standards (NMS) is an independent accreditation awarded to organisations delivering internal or external mentoring programmes.

Accreditation Process

Organisations register on our website and complete a self-assessment against the Standards.
Our assessors check the self-rating against the submission and evidence. Judgements are based on best fit, for example if a submission meets most of the criteria in a level, then this will be awarded. The overall judgement will require at least six of the seven pillars to be scored at that level or higher, for example to be accredited at silver level, at least six of the pillars must be rated as silver or gold.