Young Bar Mentoring is a mentoring scheme for aspiring barristers. We match mentees with mentors who have recently been successful in the Inns of Court scholarship and/or pupillage application process.

We set up this mentoring scheme three years ago because we believe that the best advice scholarship/pupillage applicants can get is from those who have just gone through the process (and succeeded!) We realised that no current mentor scheme is run exclusively by recently successful applicants. Our reasoning for seeking recent applicants as our mentors is because the application process is constantly changing (particularly through the Pupillage Gateway) and our advice needs to be up-to-date.

Young Bar Mentoring has opened sign-ups for our mentoring scheme for the 2024-25 application cycle. We are recruiting for both mentees and mentors and our first deadline is fast approaching (15 November). We are in particular need of more mentors.
 
Mentees: 
 Mentees must be applying for pupillage or an Inns of Court Bar or GDL scholarship in this application cycle to sign up. 
 
Sign-up link for mentees
 
Mentors:
 We are looking for mentors who have secured any of the following in the last 4 years: 
1.       Pupillage, 
2.       A Bar Course Inns of Court scholarship, 
3.       A GDL Inns of Court scholarship.
 
Sign-up link for mentors
 
The deadlines are as follows: 
•  Pupillage scholarship mentoring - 15 November 2024 at 23:59
•  Bar Course scholarship mentoring - 10 January 2025 at 23:59
•  GDL scholarship mentoring - 8 April 2025 at 23:59