YTKO has a wealth of experience in recruiting, managing and matching mentors with clients, and providing this service directly. We specialise in working with under-represented enterprise groups, as well as tailored mentoring support for women and academic researchers.

Our personalised, one-to-one support can really help to inspire people and unlock their potential at all levels of business, from start-up through to growth.

Mentoring is an invaluable element of YTKO’s skills programmes, getting right to the heart of an individual’s needs; informing, empowering, challenging and motivating them.

We are always looking to add high quality, experienced people to our enterprise coaching knowledge bank across the UK. So if you are interested in coaching high growth, knowledge economy businesses, or working with disadvantaged people to help them start on the enterprise journey, please do get in touch.

Specialist mentoring support from YTKO

Yorkshire Enterprise Fellowship

The Yorkshire Enterprise Fellowship (YEF) scheme was designed to help academic researchers create a business based on their research. The programme delivered practical support to commercialise ideas and research findings from the region’s universities and NHS trusts. Personal mentors – each of which were high level industry practitioners – were matched with each fellow to help them to define the most suitable route, be that spin-out, joint venture or licensing opportunity. A total of 65 fellowships were awarded across disciplines of biosciences, chemicals and healthcare technologies, offering a fully-managed proof of concept support scheme. Find out more about academic mentoring

Outset Norfolk

Outset Norfolk supports under-represented enterprise groups from Norfolk to start their own businesses. A significant part of the programme’s offering includes a mentoring service provided by the region’s experienced businessmen and women, who were asked to donate to the Outset Norfolk Time Bank. A significant number of hours have been leveraged from the local business community, which have contributed to he programme’s ongoing success. Read more about our start-up mentoring programme for under-represented groups.

Enterprising Women

Enterprising Women is a vibrant and dynamic community providing comprehensive business support and specialist information to help women start up and grow their businesses. Members have access to a database of over 100 mentors to provide guidance and support. Find out more about our specialist mentoring support for women.