Directory

Cornerstone is a Community Interest Company founded on a simple yet powerful belief: everyone has something valuable to offer. We understand that individual circumstances can shape how people are able to contribute—but they should never define their potential. At Cornerstone, we work alongside individuals to help improve their circumstances, discover their passions, nurture their unique talents, and unlock their full potential.
We work throughout the county boroughs of Caerphilly and Merthyr Tydfil, supporting people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The challenges our clients face—whether financial hardship, a history of imprisonment, or other difficult circumstances—are often complex and deeply interconnected. That’s why we take a holistic, personalised, and compassionate approach to address each individual’s unique needs and help them build a more secure and fulfilling future.

Criminon UK is a registered charity delivering distance learning life skills courses in many UK prisons. We are members of LASER Learning Awards (formerly the Open College Network South East Region), and have four courses accredited. Our accredited course "Understanding and Overcoming Addiction", aligns with learning outcomes of the NOCN National Qualification Unit's 'Introduction to Drug Awareness', Level 1. Our other accredited courses deal with literacy at Entry Level 2 and Level 1 and a simple guide to better living and self-respect at Entry Level 2. Further life skills courses we offer deal with Parenting, Communication and Personal Integrity. We also offer a Mentor Course which gives the offender the skills to help others with their literacy and allows them to give something back, helping them achieve greater confidence and self-respect.

Hafal (meaning 'equal') is the principal organisation in Wales working with individuals recovering from serious mental illness and their families. As a member led Charity, we were founded 20 years ago on the belief that people who have direct experience of mental illness know best how services can and should be delivered. Providing support across all 7 local health board areas of Wales and delivering over 76 projects, Hafal is dedicated to empowering people with serious mental illness and their families to:
• Achieve a better quality of life.
• Fulfill their ambitions for recovery.
• Fight discrimination.
• Enjoy equal access to health and social care, housing, income, education, and employment.

We provide talks and workshops in prisons and YOIs using lived experience to help those in prison build confidence and self-esteem and thereby develop fulfilling and productive lives on the outside.
We also deliver public speaking workshops in prisons and YOIs.
Our founder, Graham Frost, has lived experience as a Borstal boy and has gone on to build a fulfilling life for himself. Graham uses his story to inspire others to change their lives for the better.

We provide support to people in prison and their children, families and significant others. We operate visitor centres, provide family support and through the gate mentoring.

We also deliver awareness raising training to schools with the aim of reducing the stigma around children with parents in prison. Our School Zone project aims to reduce the barriers to involvement in the education of the children.

Llamau is Wales leading homelessness organisation, working with homeless young people and vulnerable people across Wales. We provide supported accommodation, family mediation, training and employability and a range of gender specific services. We work with young people who have offended, care leavers, victims of abuse, vulnerable women, children and families as well as other marginalised groups with complex needs. We also have a resettlement project, providing resettlement broker coordinators to North and Southern Wales in order to help facilitate effective resettlement of young people who are in custody, or who have resettlement needs. This project has established several Reintegration and Resettlement Partnerships across Wales.

The Mental Health Foundation, incorporating the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (FPLD), is the leading UK charity working in the field of mental health and learning disability. We combine policy, research, campaigning and service development to promote good mental health and to improve services for anyone affected by mental health problems or with a learning disability.

Our vision is Sustainable wellbeing for all;
-Sustainable meaning long lasting
-Wellbeing meaning a sense of purpose, optimism, hope, agency, and direction
-All meaning us, our community, the people we work with and beside, humankind, animals and nature
Our mission is to be a platform for connection, transformation and social change.
We provide mental health and other services to 8000 people a year through our portfolio of 100 projects and services across five Welsh Health Board areas and fourteen local authorities, circa £9m annual turnover. Projects and services are grouped below;
-Crisis prevention and home: homelessness/mental health, housing and support
-Meaningful and purposeful life: employment, volunteering, training, skills development, community development, peer support, young people’s work, substance use
-Therapies, wellbeing centres, learning: counselling, workplace wellbeing, professional training and development

Restorative Solutions is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) committed to enabling the use of innovative restorative approaches as a practical and cost-effective intervention for reducing harm or conflict.
We introduce restorative practices to organisations, volunteers and front line workers who are looking for a proven and worthwhile alternative to existing conventional approaches to reducing conflict, disputes, anti-social behaviour, bullying, crime and re-offending. We deliver bespoke, commissioned Restorative Justice services to organisations.

For over 40 years, The Prince’s Trust has been working with disadvantaged young people, aged 13-30. We help them develop the skills and motivation to re-engage with society, secure employment, return to education, gain qualifications, and ultimately, become economically active.

Our programmes offer personal development opportunities that bring tangible and lasting benefits to both the young people we support, and the communities in which they live. We provide quality services that deliver the best possible outcomes to those who need it most. Within our core target group are those who are:
- Unemployed, particularly those out of work for six months or more.
- Educational underachievers, including those who have been excluded from school or are at risk of being excluded.
- Those facing complex barriers to work and education such as offenders/ex-offenders, those with mental health issues, lone parents, those in or leaving-care or disabled young people.

Unlock is an independent award-winning national charity that provides a voice and support for people with convictions who are facing stigma and obstacles because of their criminal record, often long after they have served their sentence.

Firstly, we help people. We provide information, advice and support to people with convictions, including running an information site and confidential peer-run helpline. We help practitioners support people with convictions by providing criminal record disclosure training. And we support employers and universities in treating people with criminal records fairly.

Secondly, we advocate for change, working at policy level to address systemic and structural issues. We listen to and consult with people with criminal records, undertake research and produce evidence-based reports to inform policy makers and the public. We challenge bad practice, influence attitudes and speak truth to power. We co-founded and support the Ban the Box campaign.

Unlock Drama (UD) has over eight years’ experience working across the criminal justice system, delivering in more than 30 prisons with groups including sex offenders, young offenders, women vulnerable prisoners and foreign nationals.

Prisons we work within include: HMPYOI Swinfen Hall, HMYOI Brinsford and HMP Send etc.

UD utilises creative methods, which offers a unique tool that encourages teamwork, confidence, communication skills, motivation, organisation, listening skills, leadership, resilience and more. UD deliver creative projects closely linked to rehabilitation and focuses on addressing dominant concerns within the prison estate such as Engagement in activities, Substance Misuse and Debt.

UD also delivers issue-based theatre within the community working with participants such as: recovering drug addicts, homeless, young people at risk of offending and ex-offenders.

The Wallich delivers innovative solutions to homelessness as diverse as the needs of the people we help. The Wallich has a team of just under 250 employees who work alongside a growing team of volunteers to support hundreds of people a day in over 50 projects across Wales. Our work falls into four areas: 1. Residential supported housing projects, including direct access hostels, emergency night shelters and accommodation for people with specific issues such as substance misuse. 2. Floating (Tenancy) support projects in which we support people who have tenancy difficulties, sometimes with a contributing health or other need. 3. Prevention or intervention projects, which are a broad range of services that prevent homelessness or make life better for homeless people. 4. Development and Involvement services, which enhance support through providing opportunities in the community to gain transferable skills and influence service provision.