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The IARS International Institute is a user-led charity with a mission to give everyone a chance to forge a safer, fairer and more inclusive society. IARS achieves its charitable aims by producing evidence-based solutions to current social problems, sharing best practice and by supporting young people and the community to shape decision making. IARS is an international expert in user-led research, evaluation, human rights and inclusion, citizenship, criminal justice and restorative justice. We deliver our charitable mission by:

- undertaking user-led research and advocacy;
- developing and delivering user-led training programmes; and
- assisting other organisations to develop robust theory of change models and evaluation frameworks to demonstrate their impact.

We deliver projects nationally and internationally throughout Europe across three main areas - justice, gender and equality, and youth.

St Johns is an independently managed male Approved Premises and Outreach project. We work with men who are in the main presenting as high and medium risk of harm , we accommodate men who are involved in the Criminal Justice System, and also operate a move on Outreach Service . We provide a safe , stable and structured environment and deliver a variety of activities and programmes . We have developed a number of specialist partnerships and work with multiple agencies to offer an individualistic service user led approach in order to work towards reducing re-offending.

Stepping Stones is a unique service in Luton for women offering support on a variety of issues such as drugs/alcohol, domestic abuse, mental health, problems related to offending or re-offending in a safe, warm and supportive environment. We also have an Ofsted Registered Childcare Service so children can be looked after in a safe environment whilst their mothers/carers access support. We work in Partnership with BeNCH CRC to divert women from custody, reduce women’s offending and divert women from the criminal justice system. We offer a huge variety of comprehensive services. We are a holistic womens service that understands and takes every aspect of women’s lives into account. We use gender-responsive guiding principles in creating an environment that reflects and understands the realities of the lives of women that addresses and responds to their strengths and challenges.

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Switch Up provides life changing support to young people who have had Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma. We especially support young people from BAME communities, and those affected by crime and violence, and those who other agencies find hard to reach.

Our mentors and coaches, as well as founder and CEO Marcellus Baz, have lived experience of the issues we want to overcome. “Baz” was a gang member who turned his life around, being honoured with a British Empire Medal in 2016 by HRH The Queen and was named the Unsung Hero of the Year at the Sports Personality of the Year awards. Under Baz’s leadership, the organisation has achieved phenomenal outcomes resulting in him becoming an advisor for the Home Office and meeting the Home Secretary about the Switch Up model.

The Wise Group works in partnership with the Scottish Prison Service and Ministry of Justice. We are a leading social enterprise working to lift people out of poverty. As an enterprise we build bridges to opportunities for the most vulnerable in our society. Our team does this through relational mentoring services delivered throughout the UK.

Every day we support our customers into jobs, work to lift people out of fuel poverty, and help people coming out of prison to build a better future. Our work is varied, and underlying everything we do is a passion and commitment for social justice and a fairer society for all.

Thirteen Care and Support is a new company within the Thirteen Group working throughout the North-East and in North Yorkshire. It brings together two experienced, creative and complementary care and support providers from the former Fabrick Group:
1)Norcare: a specialist care and suport provider and Registered Charity which was founded in 1984 and joined the Fabrick Group in 2012.
2)Tees Valley Housing Limited's supported housing team: a team which has a long track record of developing and delivering support services.
Our vision is to 'help people who need support in order to maximise their independence'.
We currently deliver a range of housing and community based support services to Veterans, young people, families, those seeking drug and alcohol recovery,individuals experiencing mental health issues, those escaping domestic violence, ex-offenders,the homeless and other individuals living chaotic lives or with multiple and complex needs.

The overall aim of TWP is to address the complex, multiple needs that often lead women to offending, and in so doing to prevent offending and reduce reoffending. The ultimate aim is to help vulnerable women turn their lives around and address issues which are linked to offending or which place a woman at risk. TWP engages with and provides intensive support to clients; offering one-to-one and group work support, guidance, information and signposting. The aim being to raise aspirations, build confidence and self esteem, as well as providing access routes into participation, education, training and employment, housing and personal development.

Therepritic Interventions and Engagement

The Ubele Initiative is a social enterprise with a mission to contribute to the sustainability of the African Diaspora community. Through social leadership development, community enterprise and social action, we incubate projects across the UK.

We creates partnerships with local, regional, national and international organisations to create innovative solutions for some of our most pressing social, economic and political concerns.

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.

For 40 years Victim Support has provided victims and witnesses with practical help and emotional support they need, giving free and confidential help to over half a million victims a year across England and Wales. We assess who needs support and use our trained staff and volunteers to help people cope and recover. We also run a national supportline, national homicide service, help people at court through our Witness Service and campaign to get a better deal for people affected by crime. Our local work ensures we remain highly responsive to the needs of local victims and is backed up by the strength and safeguards of a national organisation. We also run specialist services for particular types of crime with money we raise through fundraising, local grants or contracts. This includes bespoke local services for victims of domestic violence, hate crime and antisocial behaviour as well as young victims and witnesses and people who want to take part in restorative justice.

Wellbeing in Action exist to remove and prevent harm to people's physical, mental, financial, social and community health and wellbeing, through practical solutions that enable people to live their best life. We especially focus on supporting women who have faced trauma, including abuse, and their families. We provide a range of befriending services, specialist trauma therapy facilities and use social action to distribute aid such as household items, clothing, baby equipment and provide support as people rebuild their lives. We work on the basis of a transaction of kindness where every person has a time they need to reach out for help, and all equally have times they can extend to others. Maintaining pride, dignity and being a member for life, rather than being "treated" or "fixed" is part of our ethos. Our motto is 'If we can, we do' and we roll our sleeves up to meet individual needs that make a difference.

To provide a holistic one stop service that combines centre based and community based services for and by women.
Focussing on meeting the needs, aspirations and desires of women in order to help them have an improved quality of life.

Empowering, rehabilitation and supporting the community, through:

- The promotion of civic responsibility and good citizenship
- Advancing education and personal development
- Promote life-long learning and the development of the individual capabilities, skills and understanding in subjects of educational value
- Creating programmes which will rehabilitate young offenders

Established as a charity in 1986, YSS supports individuals who face multiple life challenges across Warwickshire and West Mercia. With a paid staff team of 50 and over 50 volunteers, YSS provides custody and community-based support to a wide variety of individuals and have particular experience and expertise of supporting those involved in the CJS and those most poorly served by public and statutory services.
YSS services include 1:1, intensive, holistic support to veterans in the CJS; those experiencing familial imprisonment; appropriate adult service; targeted Early Help; as well as supporting people into accommodation on release from prison.