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We work with offenders/prisoners providing pro-social education, learning and support. Our education programme is person centred and prepares and equips those in custody for work and a crime free lifestyle upon release thus preventing re-offending

St Giles Trust aims to help break the cycle of prison, crime and disadvantage and create safer communities by supporting people to change their lives. Our services put reformed ex-offenders at the heart of the solution, training them to use their skills and first-hand experience to help others through peer-led support.
We work in custody, through the gate and into the community, finding solutions to support offenders break the cycle and move towards social inclusion and mainstream provision. Services are delivered in prisons and CRCs throughout the country, with current programmes running in Wales, Yorkshire, the Midlands, Norfolk, Suffolk, London and the South East. We work with a wide demographic and have specific experience with particular groups including female offenders, BAME, young people and foreign national prisoners.
We provide flexible, tailor-made services which are driven by the needs presented by the people we are trying to help. Typically, this involves: helping people

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.

St Mungo’s supports over 10,000 homeless and vulnerable people in London and the South each year. Our work focuses on three main areas: • Providing emergency services e.g. emergency shelters, hostels and outreach teams. • Supporting homeless people in their recovery – this includes drug and alcohol treatment, providing access to physical and mental healthcare and developing independent living skills. • Preventing homelessness – our support teams work with a range of vulnerable people e.g. former rough sleepers and ex-offenders. We also offer high support housing to nearly 400 people at risk of sleeping rough. In 2011/12, our Offender Management Services saved over 1,000 tenancies.

St Petrock’s has been working for over 18 years to support people who are homeless or vulnerably housed to improve their circumstances and lead fulfilling lives.

We aim to:
• Improve access to housing and help clients to successfully maintain a tenancy
• Improve health, well being and life expectancy
• Enable access to training, volunteering and employment opportunities.

St Petrock’s works to achieve these objectives through a number of emergency, support and prevention programmes including, advice, housing and support, outreach, resettlement, work and volunteering projects, prison housing advice, “through the gate” resettlement service, and a hub providing health and substance misuse services, basic survival services and emergency winter accommodation.

Many of the people we work with have become socially excluded and many have complex and overlapping needs such as mental health, addictions, offending or a learning or physical disability.

Step One Charity is a Devon based organisation providing community, custody and residential based services for people who find themselves socially excluded due to disadvantage.
Since 2015 we have delivered on the HMPPS CFO3 contract supporting participants in custody along the probation pathways and through the gate back in to their local communities.
Our Case Managers provide tailored one to one, person centred support aimed at generating the skills, confidence and self-belief necessary to promote social inclusion.
Experienced in delivery at HMP Dartmoor and HMP Channings Wood whilst ensuring a smooth transition on release into their community/probation areas.
As an organisation we have been working hard to respond to the current global crisis and are providing additional training for staff whilst creating bespoke material to enable us to reach out online and increase the number of people that we are able to help and support.
Building hope, connection and resilience.

Step Together’s Criminal Justice Programme provides 1:1 support and matches individuals with a cause and a specific voluntary role with which they identify, acting as a catalyst for change - improving personal skills, well-being and employability, and enabling them to be self-supporting and play a more active and engaged part in society on release.

Working on both sides of the prison gate, to ensure seamless progression from prison to community, the programme enables people who would otherwise be excluded from society to participate in positive and purposeful diversionary activity, improving integration, building a sense of belonging and involvement, a resilience to turn their back on the past, and opening significant opportunities for the future. The programme supports individuals regardless of age and the offence committed.

Public speaking
Schools
Youth offenders
Prisons
Community

Stockport Homes has delivered the Stockport Housing Offender Service (SHOS) since 2009. The work is integrated to achieve complimentary outcomes for agencies including Probation, Spotlight, Supporting People, Prisons, Youth Offending Team and the Problem Solving Court.
SHOS has a dedicated Housing Officer and typically deals with 30 offenders per month, providing advice on both maintaining existing and securing new accommodation. This includes visiting those on remand to prevent them losing their homes, and to prisoners to plan their move-on. The Officer also undertakes homelessness assessments and accesses Temporary Accommodation where required.
SHOS undertakes regular surgeries at Probation and HMP Forest Bank. Recently, the service has begun outreach to Stockport Women’s Centre, where it deals with female offenders. In addition to these responsibilities the service also supports clients in the community such as:
• Temporary Accommodation;
• Approved premises;
• Clients’ homes

Streetlight UK provides a specialised support service for women involved in prostitution across Sussex, Surrey and London. We support women and help them overcome the challenges that limit their choices: such as the lack of education, training and employment opportunities as well as the physical and emotional barriers before them.
To offer an holistic wrap around support that goes beyond crisis intervention and harm reduction to empower women to:
Regain physical and emotional stability.
Rebuild trust, self esteem and confidence.
Receive support and address root causes in a safe environment.
Reconnect with self, family and society.
Reach their full potential.

We are an award winning service user team, who on 2nd June 2014 were awarded the equivalent of an MBE, by Her Majesty the Queen. We manage local service user involvement work (forums, consultations, research etc.) In addition we offer individuals who have been in any way affected by addiction and social exclusion, the opportunity to move forward with their lives. We support access to opportunities within education, training, volunteering and employment. We do this by way of offering tailored and bespoke support (by people in recovery) to our visitors and service users alike. We have supported 131 people into sustainable employment within the last 4 and a half years (Jan 2011 to July 2015) and believe that everyone has the power change. We recruit volunteers to support our work (all 4 staff members volunteered initially). We also offer recreational activities to increase social networks and they are free for the participants.

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.

Switchback was established in 2008 to support young men leaving prison to live life differently: not just to stop crime, but to change the way they think about and participate in society. We are proud to have supported over 260 Switchback Trainees to make that change and lead stable, rewarding lives.

Tap Social Movement is an Oxford-based craft brewery and community space set up to train and employ people currently serving or recently released from prison sentences.

Our main aim is to offer support and guidance to ex-offenders who would otherwise feel isolated.Stepping Out will help with the many issues they encounter and give them a realistic path back to employment. If a individual needs any funding we will look at organisations that could provide this and give any support that would be required.

Tell me a Tale facilitates 'Act on Employment' in prisons. This is a short course focusing on getting employment after prison.

Tempo works to enable more people to volunteer, because giving your time and feeling valued improves health, happiness and future prospects.

Our vision is for strong, connected communities where everyone’s time is valued. We want to work with more communities across the UK – enabling more people to contribute to their local community, and be recognised for the time that they give.

To achieve this, we use Time Credits to engage new people in communities and in shaping local services, improving health and wellbeing for all.

Time Credits are a time-based currency that incentivises people to volunteer. People earn Time Credits when they give their time and spend them on a wide range of activities they choose.

The benefits of Time Credits include:
• More people volunteering
• Improved health and wellbeing
• A stronger voluntary sector
• Better designed services
• People feel more connected
• People develop new skills and confidence

Thames Reach has a track record in working with people with current and past history of offending. Our work with vulnerable adults offers support and solutions to people at risk of homelessness, substance use, offending, poor mental and physical health, including:

• Staff and volunteers work directly with rough sleepers on the street. We provide emergency assistance and encourage movement into accommodation.

• Our hostels supply a safe, temporary place to stay for people who find themselves homeless and with multiple and complex problems, including successful initiatives such as Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE).

• Our supported housing projects provide accommodation with assistance for people with specialist needs, including offending, mental health and/or substance misuse problems.

• We support vulnerable people in their own rented accommodation, and provide pathways and response in accessing this type of accommodation, including the provision of accommodation

The Calico Group is a group of innovative charities and businesses aimed at making a real difference to people's lives. We deliver services in the health, care & support, employability & skills, housing and construction & regeneration sectors. In terms of criminal justice, our services include: drug & alcohol service in HMP Manchester and HMP Buckley Hall; supported housing for ex-offenders in Manchester, Rochdale and East Lancs; refuge for homeless people with complex needs; traditional and complex needs domestic violence refuges and safe houses; domestic violence perpetrator programmes; behavioural change programmes aimed at criminal behaviours; community substance misuse services in Blackpool (Horizon) and Manchester; promote lived-experience volunteer and peer support throughout our services. More widely, we are an RSL with 4,500 properties and provide a wide-range of care and support services to vulnerable people in our communities.

The Cascade Foundation runs an innovative project in Doncaster Prison - a new approach to help disengaged prisoners with learning difficulties. Using multi-sensory techniques, we re-engage them and teach them to read and write, then progress their literacy skills. We also deliver a unique programme of personal and social development. We enhance offenders' confidence and self esteem, teach many life-skills and train prisoners to be mentors and Learning Coaches to peer-mentor and support each other.

We will open our first Transition Centre in 2014 to accommodate, support, teach and train ex-offenders and those at risk of offending, helping them to find work and mentoring them in the community, linking with families.

Our CEO and founder has a strong track record. Her previous project in another prison decimated the re-offending rate and reduced that prison's assault rates to a fifth. Our goal is to greatly reduce re-offending rates in Doncaster and transform prisoners' lives.