Elevate, the free UK mentorship programme, has launched its eighth season intake for new mentees and mentors.
Registrations will remain open until February with all mentee/mentor partnerships announced soon after. All applications should be made via the Elevate website.
The programme – launched in 2017 by Melissa Noakes, Max Fellows and Peter Kerwood – aims to fill what they perceive to be a “huge gap in the UK events industry for training and personal development.”
In 2023, 268 mentors and mentees from eight countries successfully completed the mentoring programme. Mentees benefitted from 800+ mentoring hours fuelled by a combined 2,270+ years of experience from their industry mentors. Programme mentors volunteering their time join Elevate from across the full breadth of the events industry from venues to agencies and brands, such as TikTok, Pinterest, O2 and Netflix.
Dan Keene, Elevate advisory board member and director at Wonder, commented: “As an industry, we all have a collective responsibility to pass the baton on. Like many others, I wouldn’t be in the lucky position I am today without the help, belief, guidance and support of kind peers and mentors at critical moments of the journey.”
Anton Jerges, Elevate advisory board member and CEO at We Are Collider, added: “The Elevate programme is fantastic and the people behind it are brilliant. Mel, Max and Pete have created something incredibly professional. They are people with big hearts, and they set the tone for the organisation as a whole. A community of lovely, friendly people who want to do good things and help people do better, it’s amazing to be involved in something like that.”
