POPS (Partners Of Prisoners and Family Support Group)

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POPS is a user-led organisation, supporting families through their contact with the criminal justice system (CJS) as a result of a loved one’s conviction.

POPS’ work:
 strengthens & rebuilds family ties
 creates safe spaces for families & under-represented communities to speak out about issues affecting them
 increases public awareness of the impact of the CJS
 advocates for changes in public policy & commissioning.

POPS provides:
 Family Support Services at 14 prisons across the North-West/Yorkshire/Leicestershire;
 Community-based support for women through the Farida Women’s Centre (Oldham);
 Community-based support for people on probation and their families (Wellbeing Service - Greater Manchester);
 Prison & community-based education programmes;
 Community-based interventions for prisoners from BAME backgrounds;
 Advocacy & support for under-represented communities.

Contact

Help Line No.
0161 702 1000
Work Tel. No.
0161 702 1000
Email
mail@partnersofprisoners.co.uk

In Brief

Charity Number
1048152
No. of Paid Staff
60
No. of Volunteers
10
Does the organisation involve volunteers with experience of the criminal justice system?
Yes
Primary Field of Work
Family support
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Regions
East Midlands | Leicestershire | North West | Warrington UA | Lancashire | Lancaster | Greater Manchester (Met County) | Wigan | Stockport | Bolton | Bury | Manchester | Oldham | Rochdale | Trafford | Tameside | Salford | Cumbria | Cheshire East UA | Yorkshire and the Humber | West Yorkshire (Met County) | Wakefield
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy | Attitudes, thinking and behaviour | Case management | Collaboration and partnership working | Employment | Family support | Finance, benefits & debt | Gender-specific services | Housing & homelessness | Lived experience involvement | Lobbying & campaigning | Parenting skills | Peer support | Prisons | Race | Relationships | Research & academia | Resettlement | Through the gate | Training | Visitors centre | Volunteering | Women-only provision
People you work with
Children | Families | Men | People convicted of serious offences | People on a short sentence | Racially minoritised people | Women | Young people
Racially minoritised people specialist services
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh | Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi | Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese | Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian | Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani | Black, Black British or Black Welsh | Black, Black British or Black Welsh: Caribbean | Black, Black British or Black Welsh: Other Black | Black, Black British, or Black Welsh: African | Dual Heritage | Foreign Nationals | Mixed or multiple ethnic groups: Other mixed/multiple | Mixed or multiple ethnic groups: White and Asian | Mixed or multiple ethnic groups: White and Black African | Mixed or multiple ethnic groups: White and Black Caribbean | Other ethnic group: Any other | Other ethnic group: Arab | White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British | White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller | White: Irish | White: Other White | White: Roma
Prisons
Buckley Hall | Fosse Way | Garth | Haverigg | Hindley | Kirkham | Lancaster Farms | Liverpool | Manchester | Preston | Risley | Thorn Cross | Wakefield | Wymott
Probation Areas
Greater Manchester