The Oxford Brookes/OBREMS Mentoring Scheme 2025

The Mentoring Scheme Launch - March 2024

The Mentoring Scheme has been running since 2013, successfully matching more than 1000 students from the BSc Real Estate and the BSc Property Development and Planning with one of our alumni. That's a lot of networking. The Mentoring Scheme is managed jointly by OBREMS (our alumni association) and the School of the Built Environment and is open to second year students as well as students on the MSc Real Estate. In early February we will open applications to the OBREMS/OBU Mentoring Scheme 2025 for second year undergraduate students. So why should you take part? Some quotes from students, alumni and mentors...

• The Mentoring Scheme was certainly useful and the networking launch event was a great illustration of how important networking is within Real Estate. Thank you. 
• Brilliant, and we will keep in touch after the scheme ends. 
• Helpful - as it improved my CV massively, which helped secure a job.
• Amazing, my Mentor was extremely helpful and the scheme provided fantastic contacts.
• I think the mentoring scheme was a brilliant way to get us in touch with industry professionals. For me it has opened many doors and built my CV by getting work experience through the scheme. I think its a brilliant initiative, in which I hope I'll be able to take part in when I am working. 
• Speaking to 3rd year students at the Real Estate society socials, and other sports activities, the Mentoring Scheme has helped people in many different ways, that might not seem like the obvious choices. For example, just putting people in touch to help find a room in London, where they secured a summer internship. I also think that a lot of the property industry is about building connections, which the Mentoring Scheme can also assist with.
• Having benefited positively from the Mentoring Scheme myself as a student it has made me realise how important continuing that contact is and the benefit of maintaining the alumni community as it's great for meeting new people and being able to help students out.

This year, the mentoring period for undergraduate students will start at the end of March 2024, with a launch event kindly hosted by Montagu Evans at 70 St Mary's Axe (the Can of Ham Building) on the evening of 27 March (6pm to 8pm). The launch event will include guest speakers and a chance for networking and meetings between students and mentors. 

There are a wide range of mentors who volunteer to take part, from recent graduates to CEOs - and a lot of our younger mentors took part in the Mentoring Scheme themselves when they were students. All our mentors are alumni of Oxford Brookes (Real Estate or Planning and Property Development) and are also volunteers. Students - please remember that if you sign up to the Mentoring Scheme you must be prepared to make use of your Mentor and initiate contact. Our Mentors sign up to the scheme as volunteers because they want to help and they enjoy being part of the scheme - when students sign up and then drop out, we end up with disappointed Mentors and a wasted opportunity for the student. There is a lot of help on offer and it's up to you to make good use of it.