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CCS runs visitor centres offering advice, support and information. The organisation also delivers play to visiting children, as well as Healthy Choices tea bars and a First Night Centre for the induction of new prisoners. It provides ongoing support to prisoners' families, including a signposting service.

Choice for Change provides an unplanned-pregnancy advisory service and counselling support for pregnancy and child loss including child separation support. This service is available currently in two women's prisons, HMP Bronzefield and HMP Downview. The organisation also provides the 'I AM Project', a relationships and sexual health education course for offenders, ex-offenders and other vulnerable groups. We work closely with other psychological therapies within the prisons and other voluntary and statutory agencies.

Christian Action & Resource Enterprise (CARE) we provide deposit free housing and holistic based Community Support.
We work with clients who are threatened with homelessness. We take a holistic approach to understand and address the root cause of their problems. Our Community Support Service aims to equip beneficiaries with life skills needed to sustain and maintain their home, are threatened with homelessness, suffer from mental health and have a substance misuse problem and a history of offending or are at risk of re-offending.

Many of our clients are prison leavers, people who have previously spent time in prison or have gone through the criminal justice system.

Chrysalis act as a recruitment agency who provide employment opportunities for ex offenders and prisoners due for release with the long term aim of helping to break the cycle of re offending.
Identifying the areas of shortages within certain skills sets and offering the relevant training to ex-offenders/prisoners will not only enhance employability skills and increase employment opportunities for ex offenders, it will bolster the UK's skilled workforce ensuring we are open for business and capable of meeting the demand.

Chrysalis Partnership actively promote and encourage other employers to employ ex offenders and to challenge the misconceptions of their work ethic!

We deliver, on a national basis, a personal leadership and personal effectiveness development programme for individuals who want to own and drive positive change in their lives, in particular to move away from offending.

Chrysalis was formed originally in 2003 to provide Specialist Structured Support, Detoxification, Harm Reduction & Treatment Services as well as Relapse Management Services that had been specifically designed to address Dependency, Associative Mental Health Issues and to attend to the Resultant Chaotic & Repeat Homelessness experienced by sufferers as a result. All services are delivered within our Good Quality Community Based Supported Accommodation Projects. Since opening our services have grown, evolved, changed and adapted to meet the challenges unique to our sector and to respond and adapt more effectively to the needs of our service users.
Chrysalis now offers a number of Specialist Support Programmes delivered within a framework of Good Quality Supported Accommodation.
Chrysalis is a Non-Profit Private Registered Provider of Social Housing Registered Number 4751 and a member of the Housing Ombudsman and the National Housing Federation.

We give free housing advice in person or over the phone, and can act on your behalf on housing issues such as deposit guarantee and tenancy support and retention.

We offer Circles of Support and Accountability to convicted sex offenders who require supervision and support in the community.

Circles South West is an independent charity established in 2010. We work in close partnership with health, police, probation and youth offending services, uniquely providing Circles of Support and Accountability across South West England. We are the only recognised partner of the Ministry of Justice and statutory agencies/MAPPA, providing specialist support and accountability to enhance the management of people who have sexually offended in the community. Last year we coordinated 58 Circles of Support and Accountability, involving more then 200 volunteers around the region. This is more than 6400 direct volunteering hours, equivalent to £89,500 in kind.
Circles South West provides Circles of Support and Accountability, using four volunteers for each sex offender, to support and help monitor high-risk sex offenders in the community. We provide Circles for adults, young people with harmful sexual behaviour and for those with an Intellectual Disability. We also provide Circles for sexual offenders pre- release from HMP Leyhill, Channings Wood and Dartmoor.We work closely with Police and HMPPS.

Circles UK seeks greater public protection by working towards a substantial reduction in sexual offending, providing a range of services to local Circles of Support and Accountability providers. Further, it aims to develop greater public understanding of community approaches to public protection.

We are the Charity for the Community. We help people from all walks of life by providing advice on many issues; employment, consumer, debt, benefits, health, tax, housing and immigration. We are the first place people in North Tyneside go when they do not know where to turn. Many of our clients are in crisis, and can be at risk of losing their homes, jobs or families. Our advice can mean the difference between putting food on the table, or going hungry.We also help sections of society in special need-people affected by cancer come to us for advice on how to financially adjust, people with mental health issues come to us for help with complicated forms and procedures. We provide advice at a time when people need it most, and empower them so that they can lead a better quality of life. Our advice changes lives. We are: independent, impartial, confidential and free.

Citizens Advice Bournemouth Christchurch & Poole is an independent charity and the leading advice organisation across the conurbation of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole providing free and confidential advice to anyone that needs it.

Our services are designed to help create resilient and sustainable communities, through community empowerment and mobilisation.

Our Aims
We share the over-arching aims, values and principles of Citizens Advice to:
*Provide the advice people need for the problems they face
*Improve the policies and practices that improve peoples’ lives

Our Principles and Values
As a member of the Citizens Advice Service, Citizens Advice BCP provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities.

We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.

We aim to provide the advice people need for the problems they face and improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives.

We provide free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.

CACE is the largest provider of social welfare advice in Carlisle & Eden with over 80 years experience in providing independent, impartial, confidential and free advice. CACE is a registered charity, a company limited by guarantee and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. CACE serves all individuals/groups that live/work in Carlisle or Eden and surrounding areas. CACE will always value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination. We deal with over 15,000 issues annually including: debt, finance, fuel poverty, income maximisation, housing, homelessness, employment, aids and adaptations, consumer, legal, family law, relationships, immigration and welfare benefits.

Cheshire West Citizens Advice is the largest independent advice service in Cheshire and one of the largest Third Sector advice agencies in the North West. It is the second busiest CAB in the North West and the seventh busiest in England and Wales.
Cheshire West Citizens Advice provides free, independent, impartial, confidential advice and is committed to promoting equality and the redress of inequality. On average we deal with over 14,000 unique enquiries/issues annually including: debt, finance, fuel poverty, income maximisation, housing, homelessness, employment, consumer, legal, family law, relationships, immigration and welfare benefits.

Citizens Advice Gateshead (CAG) is an independent charity with a powerful goal, to help create ‘a fair society for all, with lives well lived’. We aim to do this by mobilising knowledge throughout the system so that it works for everyone, and powers the changes we need to be an equal and inclusive society. Being around for more than 70 years we are the go-to choice for free independent advice, concerning housing, welfare, legal and consumer issues. Support is given face-to-face, over the phone and online with extended opening hours into the evening and weekends to give support to clients who struggle to access our services during typical office hours. But we do so much more: we take our knowledge into our community through energy and financial well-being workshops; support local businesses who want to provide help for their staff and customers; and our trading subsidiary, Society Matters CIC, is fast becoming one of the leading lights in social welfare training across the country.

Advice and information on any issue that is free, confidential, impartial and non-judgemental. Specialising in debt but also covering benefits, employment, housing and consumer issues.

Generalist Advice Services with specialities in Debt and Housing (including court team), Key projects include work with Young Tenants (inc. ex offenders), Health inc. Mental Health. We operate as a lead partner in an extended advice network with links to a wide range of specialist providers including Drug and Alcohol, Education Training and Employment, BME communities, Deaf and disabled services. We currently have staff based at two local prisons dealing with Debt advice.

Clean Break uses theatre to keep the subject of women in prison on the cultural radar, helping to reveal the damage caused by the failures of the criminal justice system. Through our unique work, we raise difficult questions, inspire debate, and help to effect profound and positive change in the lives of women with experience of the criminal justice system.

Since 1979, Clean Break has been the only women’s theatre company of its kind, and we continue to inspire playwrights and captivate audiences with our ground-breaking plays on the complex theme of women and crime.

Through theatre workshops and projects in prisons and in the community which build confidence, resilience and wellbeing, we transform the lives of women who have experienced the criminal justice system or who are at risk of entering it.

We are committed to reducing re-offending and making society safer by placing people with past convictions into meaningful, mentored and sustainable employment. We are a specialist employment agency for people with past convictions across Teesside and North Yorkshire.
We work with employers to help reduce the risk of re-offending and make our community a safer place. Specifically working within the construction, customer service, hospitality, retail and manufacturing sectors.
We cover everything from sourcing staff, the initial screening process and providing any training certificates that may be required. Once our candidate is in employment then we mentor them outside of work throughout their first 6 months helping them with any other specific areas in life.