About Us

Yorkshire Accord Coaching & Mentoring Scheme is a well-established and highly valued partnership, offering cost-effective coaching and mentoring opportunities. Open to private, public, and third-sector organisations, the scheme fosters collaboration and the sharing of best practices. Since its launch in 2000, Yorkshire Accord has been dedicated to supporting professional growth and development across its partner organisations.

Our Aim

To enable individuals to maximise their own potential leading to a positive impact on organisational performance. Organisations involved work together to create affordable and mutually beneficial cross-organisational coaching and mentoring opportunities. Opportunities are offered in two ways;

1 - By developing a pool of coaches and mentors – we provide high

quality learning and development support through training, regular

ongoing professional development events, and access to coaching

supervision to support confident and ethical practice.

2 - Offering 1-2-1 coaching and mentoring support to staff – we focus on

providing support to individuals and can respond to a broad range of

potential professional learning and development agendas with the

aim of bringing positive benefits to the organisations involved.

About Us

"Our partnership is more than just an agreement, we are a community"

History & Current Partners

Our journey began in 2000 with the launch of a collaborative project bringing together five public service organisations in the City of York region. The goal was to explore how they could share best practices and complement each other’s work. Originally known as ‘York Accord’, the initiative focused on five key areas, one of which was staff learning and development.

Over time, our coaching and mentoring scheme became the most enduring and impactful part of the project. As more partners joined, we expanded beyond York and evolved into ‘Yorkshire Accord’. Today, our continued growth and success reflect the lasting value of collaboration and professional development.

With 10 partner organisations currently involved, we are actively seeking new partners from the public, private, and third sectors. We see immense potential to further expand our network, fostering even greater opportunities for learning, knowledge-sharing, and professional growth.

If your organisation is interested in joining our partnership, we’d love to hear from you!

Partners& Fees

Fees & Commitment

Yorkshire Accord is a self-funded, not-for-profit scheme with each partner paying an annual contribution to support the training, management, coordination and monitoring of the scheme and its participants.

In addition, each organisation nominates an internal coordinator who takes a pro-active role in managing internal recruitment and the overall decision making process for the scheme.

New organisations entering the scheme are asked to make a two-year commitment to the partnership, which will be renewed annually thereafter.

It costs less than you think to become a partner. Just for fun why not grab a piece of paper and a pen and take a look at our slideshow below. We'll help you calculate the value verses the actual cost of been involved.