increased willingness to engage in activities for participants

Changes during mentoring in involvement in leisure activities were relatively strong according to co-ordinators and mentors. They started from a low base, with over three-quarters given initial ratings of 3 or lower. Some 18 percent of cases recorded no change over the mentoring period and at the end of mentoring, a quarter were still on scores of 3 or lower. Changes were substantial for several mentees and made a big difference to their lives. One listed football, snooker, fishing and gym as new activities. The average improvement in involvement was 28 percent. The attribution to mentoring was relatively high (53 percent). Mentees themselves reported a similar but slightly lower level of improvement (27 percent) and attribution to mentoring (51 percent). Involvement in activities was thus the only dimension on which mentees did not report better results than co-ordinators and mentors.