Some people will never find this on their own. You can change that.
Think about the people who keep your world running.
The person who cleaned your office this morning before anyone arrived. The apprentice on their third week who is still figuring out where they belong. The admin team that holds your entire operation together without anyone noticing. The care worker on a double shift who hasn’t had a proper conversation about their own future in years. The delivery driver who listens to podcasts all day because they are hungry for something more but nobody has ever pointed them toward anything structured.
These people are not hard to find. They are everywhere.
What is hard to find — for them — is a starting point.
A structured place to begin developing themselves. A tool built for their life, not someone else’s. A signal from the world around them that their growth matters too.
That is what you can give them.
What the sponsorship programme is
The Ten Mentors Sponsorship Programme allows businesses, foundations, community organisations, and individuals to sponsor Ten Mentors Boxes for people who would never otherwise receive one.
You choose how many boxes to sponsor. We handle the rest.
Every sponsored box contains everything a person needs to begin their personal development journey — the Ten Mentors Book, the High Performance Journal, the tools and resources, and access to Ten Mentors Music. A complete system. In their hands. No programme required. No training budget needed. No manager’s approval necessary.
And where you want to go further — where you want this to land in a room, in a community, in a team — Ten Mentors will come and deliver a talk. A real conversation about growth, about what it means to build a life with intention, and about why the people in that room deserve the same investment that has always gone to someone else.
Who you can sponsor
There is no wrong answer here. The forgotten workforce is everywhere.
Some sponsors choose to give boxes to their own frontline teams — the people in their organisation who are the least likely to receive development resources and the most likely to stay longer and perform better when they do.
Some choose to give to a community they are connected to — a local school’s apprenticeship programme, a care home, a logistics hub, a community centre, a group of young people who are just starting out and have nobody showing them the way.
Some choose to give to people they have never met — through partner organisations, community groups, and networks Ten Mentors works with — because they believe that growth belongs to everyone, not just the people in their own orbit.
The person who receives the box does not need to know your name. They just need to receive the thing that changes the direction of something.
What a sponsored box can do
We want to be honest about this — because it matters.
A box is not a magic solution. It will not fix everything. It will not replace a human mentor or a supportive manager or the kind of workplace that genuinely invests in its people.
But here is what it can do.
It can be the first time someone in their thirties realises that personal development was always available to them — they just were never handed the door.
It can be the thing that sits on a bedside table for six months and slowly, quietly, changes how someone thinks about their own potential.
It can be the music that plays on the commute every morning and keeps a principle close that would otherwise have faded by Tuesday.
It can be the journal that creates, for the first time, a structured space for someone to think clearly about what they want — not what their job requires, not what their family expects, but what they actually want their life to look like.
For some people, that is the beginning of everything.
Nobody is unready because they lack capability. They are unready because nothing helped them get ready.
A sponsored box helps them get ready.
What you get as a sponsor
We want to be straightforward about this too.
You are not sponsoring boxes to get something back. You are doing it because you believe it is right. That is the foundation of this programme and we will not dress it up as anything else.
But here is what tends to happen.
Your people notice. When a business chooses to invest in the people most organisations overlook — the admin team, the apprentices, the frontline staff — those people notice. They talk about it. They remember it. The culture shifts, even slightly, toward one where development is not a privilege reserved for the people already near the top.
Your community notices. A business that sponsors boxes for care workers in the local community, or for apprentices at a local college, or for the staff at a charity they support — that is a story worth telling. Not because it is good PR, but because it is genuinely good.
You become part of a movement. Every sponsor is part of building the argument that personal development belongs to everyone. That the forgotten workforce deserves a starting point. That growth is not a reward for being in the right role — it is a right that belongs to every person who wants it.
We will acknowledge every sponsor on our site and in our community communications, with your permission. We will share the impact of what you have funded — not with numbers alone, but with the real stories of real people, where they are willing to share them.
Sponsorship options
We keep this simple.
Ten boxes — a team, a department, a small group of people you want to reach. The right size for a gesture that feels personal.
Fifty boxes — a larger team, a community programme, an organisation-wide initiative for the people who usually get left out.
One hundred boxes — a serious commitment to a community, a workforce, or a cause. The size that creates real visible change in a group of people.
Custom — if you have something specific in mind, we want to hear it. Some of the most meaningful sponsorships we do are the ones that don’t fit a standard package.
All sponsorships include the option of a Ten Mentors talk — delivered in person or virtually — for the people who receive the boxes. This is where the impact compounds. The box gives people something to work with. The talk gives them the context, the permission, and the belief that this is genuinely for them.
Who this programme is not for
We want to be clear about this because it matters to us.
This programme is not for organisations that want to be seen to care about their people without actually caring about their people.
It is not a tick-box exercise. It is not a CSR line item that gets filed and forgotten. It is not a photo opportunity.
It is for the business owner who has watched brilliant people in unglamorous roles go undeveloped for years and finally wants to do something about it.
It is for the HR leader who knows the development budget never reaches the people who need it most and is looking for a way to change that.
It is for the individual who has been fortunate enough to have mentors in their life and wants to pass something forward to people who weren’t.
It is for anyone who believes — genuinely believes — that growth belongs to everyone.
If that is you, we would love to hear from you.
Start the conversation
Tell us who you want to reach, how many people, and what you are hoping to create for them. We will come back to you quickly, honestly, and without a lengthy sales process.
This is a conversation between people who care about the same thing.
Ten Mentors is the first personal development system built specifically for the people who have never been given one. The sponsorship programme exists to reach the people who would never find it on their own.