Featured: Edrington
Scott McCroskie is CEO of Edrington and has been a mentor since 2017.
He shares why he believes MCR mentoring is an ideal way for business professionals – at any stage in their career – to develop their skills.
MCR Partners
Supporting MCR to Provide the Best Opportunities for our Young People
Our Partners are Transforming the Country
Across the nation, organisations large and small and from diverse sectors are supporting MCR Pathways to ensure that all young people, no matter their circumstances, get the same education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances as every other young person.
Support Staff to Mentor
Our partners encourage and support their staff to mentor a young person during the school day.
Deliver Talent Tasters
Our partners open their doors and host our young people on half day Talent Taster work experiences.
Benefits of Partnering
In addition to making a transformational impact on education outcomes for our country’s care-experienced and vulnerable young people, mentoring also brings enormous benefits to organisations and their teams.
Increasingly, businesses and organisations are recognising the wider benefits of volunteering. In fact, one of the most effective ways to engage your workforce is through providing quality and impactful volunteering.
Mentoring organisations see:
Commercial Impact
- Maximised staff engagement
- Kick started staff development
- Boosted staff mental health
Economic
Impact
- Reduced cost & turnover
- Gained new insights
- Opportunities to recruit new talent
Social
Impact
- Mandates being fulfilled
- Engagement with your local community
- Chances to give back
What Our Partners Say?
Research has shown that the best leaders are those leaders who can empathise with people. The best way that you can really learn to empathise with people is to work with others... in a very non-judgemental way.
David Hillier
Executive Dean of the Strathclyde Business School, University Of Strathclyde
Glasgow
I am hugely excited by the potential opportunities of this partnership with MCR Pathways. Their programme has proven results in terms of helping bring greater stability to the lives of a number of young people who have too few adults in their lives they can look to for support.
Tony McDaid
Executive Director of Education, South Lanarkshire Council
South Lanarkshire
BITC Scotland is delighted to support MCR Pathway's arrival in Edinburgh. This is an excellent example of great collaboration between responsible business and the local community and we wish the project every success.
Stephen Pearson
Senior Adviser, CEO Office Virgin Money & BITC
Edinburgh
Our Organisation Partners
City Building
CMS
DWP
Edrington
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce
Glasgow City HSCP
Glasgow Life
Glasgow Science Centre
Harper Macleod
Herald Times Group
HMRC
JP Morgan & Chase Co.
Lloyds Banking Group
Scottish Event Campus
Scottish Fire & Rescue Services
SQA
Wheatley Group
STV
Virgin Money
The Wood Foundation
Zapier
Our Local Authority
Partners
Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeenshire Council
Clackmannanshire Council
Edinburgh City Council
Falkirk Council
Glasgow City Council
Highland Council
North Ayrshire Council
Perth & Kinross Council
Shetland Islands Council
South Lanarkshire Council
West Dunbartonshire Council
Featured: Glasgow City Council
In 2017, MCR Pathways and Glasgow City Council entered a pioneering partnership to transform care-experienced young people’s educational outcomes.
Read about the life-changing impact mentoring is having on care-experienced young people across the city.
Our Education Partners
Edinburgh College
Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow Clyde College
Glasgow Kelvin College
North East Scotland College
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Featured: Strathclyde Business School
David Hillier is the Executive Dean and Professor of Finance at the University of Strathclyde Business School.
He realised early on that mentoring not only makes a profound difference to young people, but would also help his staff. Find out why Strathclyde University partners wtih MCR Pathways.
