Coalitions & partnerships
To help us meet our strategic objectives, we often work in partnership with other organisations whose expertise supports and enhances our own work.
Examples include:
The Arts Alliance is a coalition of arts organisations working in the criminal justice system. Its purpose is to improve communication and broker relationships between artists and organisations working with the criminal justice sector, offenders and ex-offenders, prison and probation staff, and relevant government departments.
The Arts Alliance provides practitioners and service users with a voice through which to influence policy, a forum in which to exchange views, and a stand on which to promote and raise the profile of the arts in the criminal justice sector.
Supporting Offenders Project
Clinks is working in partnership with National Association of Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA) to increase awareness of the work and support needs of local organisations with offenders. Clinks' partnership with NAVCA combines Clinks' expertise in criminal justice with NAVCA’s knowledge of local support and development organisations and the local Voluntary and Community Sector, and enables us to communicate with the national network of local infrastructure organisations. Find out more about this work here
3SC brings together a range of innovative organisations across the third sector to bid for large public contracts. By harnessing the skills and experience of its partners, consortia members and its own dedicated staff, 3SC aims to successfully bid for key public service contracts in health and social care, criminal justice, training and skills development, as well as in supportive work programmes.
Clinks is part of the Local Grants Forum, which campaigns for the continued use of grants when this is the appropriate form of funding for the Voluntary and Community Sector. The Forum published Defending Local Grants, which contains details of resources you can use at local level which will help you to convince councillors, commissioning officers and procurement professionals that grants should continue to be used to fund local organisations and groups.
Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) is a coalition of four national charities – Clinks, DrugScope, Homeless Link and Mind – formed to influence policy and services for adults with multiple needs and exclusions. Together the charities represent over 1600 frontline organisations working in the criminal justice, drug and drug treatment, homelessness and mental health sectors.
Race for Justice is the campaign to end the inequalities faced by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups and strengthen the voice and role of the voluntary sector in the Criminal Justice System. The campaign is led by a coalition of voluntary sector organisations working with BAME offenders and their families. The Campaign launched in Autumn 2008 and published Less Equal Than Others to highlight the continuing disadvantage of BME offenders in the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales.
The Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance is a broad coalition of organisations and individuals working to improve the opportunities and life chances of young people in their transition to adulthood, who are at risk of committing crime and falling into the criminal justice system. The T2A Alliance aims to raise awareness of the problems this group face and to secure policy change to improve their lives. Young adult offenders are a significant group within the criminal justice system and are responsible for a third of all crime. Over a half of young adults in custody go on to reoffend within one year of release and up to two thirds reoffend within two years.
