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Kika’s Mentoring Journey

Kika Inacio joined us as a Senior Project Leader in Manchester at the beginning of the summer. In this blog, she tells us what mentoring means to her and how she got to where she is today. After completing high school in Portugal, I moved to Manchester to study Physics and Astrophysics. My main motivation […]

Summer Camps 2021

Registration is now open for our 2021 Summer Camps. Click here to sign up! We asked one of our mentors, Cat, to explain why she loves volunteering at our summer camps and why they’re a great option for children during the holidays. “I love volunteering with Citywise because it is such a supporting and nurturing […]

How to: Help Our Children With Self Control

One of the key things we focus on in our Citywise School Projects with the young people we mentor is Self-control. Our impulses are very much related to our emotions, that’s something that parents know altogether too well. Sometimes children can seem to be able to do very little about their impulses and their emotions, […]

6 Reasons why we love our mentors

1. They could be somewhere else We know what it’s like, too many assignments to write (and the latest Netflix to catch up on!) It can be hard to find time to give away. Instead, our mentors give 2-3 hours a week on a Citywise project to meet with the child they’re mentoring because they […]

The Good Life: Seminars on Personal Development & Character Formation

Last Wednesday marked the last of a series of four seminars on ‘The Good Life.’ These were led by Fr Joseph Evans, the chaplain of Greygarth Hall (the student residence in the building next to Citywise in Manchester), followed by a discussion and refreshments each week. We were so excited to tackle some of the […]

Mentor thank you event 2017

At the end of our year of project delivery, we hold thank you events for our hard-working mentors. This post is adapted from Chief Executive Luke Wilkinson’s address to all 2016-17 mentors: While you have been hard at work in the past few weeks with your exams, the whole country has been absorbed in the […]

Winning at exams the Citywise way!

It’s exam season again and most students have a stressful few weeks of revision and exams ahead of them. It can easily feel overwhelming when faced with lots of material to memorise, but we have a few revision tricks up our sleeves using the four good old Citywise virtues! Trick 1. Write out a schedule (Good Judgment) Often […]

Entitled, narcissistic, lazy

Promoting the healthy use of digital technology is one of the big challenges facing parents, teachers and anyone working with young people today. As part of our commitment to developing holistic wellbeing, we’ll be sharing any resources we come across that help us pick a way through the #digitalmaze. A lot of people are discussing […]