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The topic of student-student mentoring has recently been growing in importance in post-school education. The concept (sometimes called 'peer-tutoring') involves using experienced students to support new students, particularly those most at risk of withdrawal because of their educational or socio-economic background. While there have been a number of mentoring schemes in both further education and higher education, there seem to have been few applications to students in Open and Distance Learning (ODL). The particular problems of ODL students such as isolation might make mentoring particularly appropriate and effective. This is a report of a small scale project to mentor new students entering the Open University on a particular course by using volunteer students who had recently completed that course. An evaluation of the project suggested that it was sufficiently successful both in its access and subsequent progress implications to be worth repeating on a more substantial scale.