How London's Common Purpose lead to eMentoring project for the Brightside Trust
Written 11.01.06 by: Jonathan Briggs
Leadership training provider Common Purpose reports in their latest newsletter how discussions between Gavin Brown of Guys Kings St Thomas's Medical School and Jonathan Briggs of the OTHER media grew into the project that became Bright Journals.
This is an innovative mentoring programme that now involves almost one third of Britain's universities and helps encourage young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to study for the health professions. It is run by the Bright Side Trust with support from the Higher Education Funding Council.
Jonathan (and later the OTHER media's MD, George Crabb) took part in the Common Purpose Matrix Programme where a group of people from widely differing backgrounds come together regularly over a year to discuss issues affecting their city and their community.
Common Purpose hope that from these conversations will come innovative ideas and cross discipline projects. With Bright Journals this is exactly what happened.