2020
Supreme Mentoring Services Is Established
Supreme Mentoring Services was founded by Taj Reid, beginning with a two-day-per-week mentoring commission at an independent school.
About Supreme Mentoring Services
Supreme Mentoring Services is a Birmingham-based specialist mentoring provider supporting young people across mainstream schools, alternative provision, specialist settings and community environments. Our work focuses on building trusted relationships, addressing barriers to engagement and helping young people develop the social and emotional skills needed to make sustainable progress.
Who we are
Our Story
Supreme Mentoring Services was created from a belief that every young person deserves access to a consistent adult who is prepared to listen, understand and remain present through challenge.
Through direct experience of supporting young people in education and community settings, we recognised that behaviour, disengagement and low confidence often reflect barriers that have not yet been fully understood. Supreme was established to provide the time, consistency and purposeful relationships needed to help young people explore those barriers and begin creating more positive actions.
Today, Supreme Mentoring Services works alongside schools, families and community partners to deliver mentoring and pastoral support shaped around the needs of the individual. Although our work has grown, our approach remains personal: understand the young person, build trust, maintain appropriate boundaries and ensure that every intervention has a clear purpose.
Our Journey
From founder-led delivery to a structured mentoring organisation, each stage of Supreme Mentoring Services' journey has strengthened our ability to provide safe, consistent and purposeful support.
- 2022
Expanding into Alternative Provision
Supreme Mentoring Services established a significant education partnership, expanding its delivery within alternative provision and strengthening its specialist SEMH mentoring experience.
- 2023
The Supreme Team Grows
Supreme Mentoring Services welcomed its first long-term team mentor in October, beginning the transition from founder-only delivery to a wider mentoring team.
- 2025–2026
Formal Community Delivery
Supreme Mentoring Services was awarded its first formal community-delivery partnership in 2025, with structured community delivery commencing in 2026.
- TODAY
The Supreme Way
Supreme Mentoring Services has developed a structured, repeatable mentoring approach that enables its standards to be upheld by a wider team without losing the personal quality on which the service was built.
Leadership
Meet the Founder
Taj Reid — Founder and Lead Mentor
Taj Reid founded Supreme Mentoring Services with a clear commitment to providing young people with consistent, relationship-led support that creates meaningful opportunities for reflection, accountability and growth.
His approach has been shaped by direct experience working alongside young people, schools, pastoral teams and families. Taj believes effective mentoring requires both empathy and appropriate challenge: young people should feel heard and understood, while also being supported to recognise their choices, develop practical strategies and take greater ownership of their progress.
As Founder and Lead Mentor, Taj remains closely involved in service delivery, safeguarding leadership, programme development and maintaining the standards expected across Supreme Mentoring Services.
Meaningful change begins when a young person feels understood, but it develops through consistency, accountability and purposeful action.
Purpose
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide safe, consistent and purposeful mentoring that helps young people better understand themselves, overcome barriers and develop the confidence, resilience and decision-making skills needed to move forward.
We work to ensure that mentoring is not simply a conversation, but a purposeful intervention shaped around the young person's needs and focused on meaningful progress.
Our principles
What Guides Our Work
Relationships
Meaningful progress begins with trust. We take time to understand the young person behind the behaviour.
Consistency
Young people need adults who remain dependable, maintain appropriate boundaries and follow through on their commitments.
Accountability
We combine empathy with appropriate challenge, helping young people recognise their choices and take ownership of their next steps.
Safeguarding
The safety and welfare of every young person remains central to our decisions, communication and practice.
Purposeful Progress
Our mentoring is shaped by identified needs, clear goals and regular reflection on the difference the intervention is making.
Our people
The Supreme Team
Supreme Mentoring Services brings together experienced mentors and pastoral professionals who share a commitment to providing safe, consistent and purposeful support for young people.
Our team has experience working across mainstream schools, alternative provision, specialist settings and community environments. Mentors are selected not only for their professional experience, but for their ability to build trust, maintain appropriate boundaries and remain consistent when supporting young people facing complex barriers.
Every person representing Supreme is expected to uphold our safeguarding, conduct, recording, communication and professional-boundary requirements.
School-Based Mentoring
Pastoral Support
Community and Private Mentoring
Workshops and Programme Delivery
Safeguarding and Quality Leadership
Quality assurance
Standards You Can Trust
When a school, family or community partner places a young person in our care, that trust carries significant responsibility. Supreme Mentoring Services applies clear professional expectations across recruitment, safeguarding, delivery, communication and quality assurance.
Safeguarding information is shared appropriately and in accordance with relevant responsibilities, procedures and the needs of the young person. Confidential mentoring conversations are not routinely disclosed unless information must be shared to protect the young person or another person from harm.
- Safer recruitment and suitability checks
- Appropriate enhanced DBS checks
- Safeguarding training and clear reporting procedures
- Professional boundaries and codes of conduct
- Reference and compliance checks
- Secure and appropriate session recording
- Communication with relevant school professionals
- Ongoing supervision and professional development
- Quality assurance across mentoring delivery
Where we operate
Working Alongside Schools, Families and Communities
Supreme Mentoring Services works primarily across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands. Our support can be tailored to the requirements of different education and community environments.
Mainstream primary and secondary schools
Alternative provision and PRU settings
Specialist education settings
Community programmes
Private mentoring
Parent and carer support
Multi-agency and partnership work
Discover How Supreme Mentoring Services Can Support You
Explore our mentoring and pastoral services, learn how we approach assessment and measurable progress, or speak to us about the needs of your school, family or community.
Start a Conversation With Supreme Mentoring Services
Whether you are looking for targeted support for an individual young person, additional pastoral capacity or a wider mentoring programme, we would welcome the opportunity to understand your needs.
Supreme Mentoring Services is committed to the safety and welfare of every young person we work with.
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