Directory

The Upper Room has three linked projects and its mission statement is ‘improving lives’:

UR4Driving aims to reduce recidivism among 30 ex-offenders a year by teaching them to drive in return for 80 hours of voluntary work and. Since 2010, 166 people have obtained a licence, approximately half of them have found work but only 30% have re-offended after completing the course.

UR4Meals feeds 60-100 people, 5 days a week, as well as providing clothing and bedding, volunteer opportunities, support with health and housing and onward referrals.

UR4Jobs is a pioneering and multilingual employment support service for economic migrants. It aims to break their circuit of un-employability and homelessness by providing a personalised mix of administrative expertise, entry level skills training, bilingual counselling and access to jobs.

The Wheels Project has been delivering a range of practical motor-vehicle-oriented programmes - all nationally accredited - which aim to engage, educate and prepare hard-to-reach young people living in Avon for employment or further education. We aim to equip our students with the knowledge and skills required to develop a history of achievement, legal driving and more social behaviours. In April 2012, the Wheels Project was awarded the PQASSO Quality Mark at level 2 by the Charities' Evaluation Service; this Quality Mark is valid for three years.

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.

The Women's Centre Cornwall is run by women, for women. We have grown from our early roots as a Rape Crisis Centre into an innovative, award-winning feminist organisation which provides a wide range of services for women and girls in our communities. Our work with women living with the impact of sexual and domestic violence is our core specialism as we believe that there can be no real gender equality without a complete cessation of violence against women. In addition, we provide community-based activities across Cornwall and support women ex-offenders across Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, and in HMP Eastwood Park.

Skills for Justice is the Government-licensed Sector Skills Council for Justice and Community Safety, working with public, private and third-sector organisations to ensure that workforces (including volunteers) have the right skills now and for the future.

Women's Project: supporting those that are vulnerable or suffering from disadvantage/exploitation. We offer support for victims of domestic violence/sexual abuse and deliver The Freedom programme. We offer 1:1 mentoring, counselling and opportunities to reduce exclusion eg Craft Cafe, lunch clubs
Money/Debt & Energy Advice Service: Comprehensive energy, benefit, money & debt service. Applications to energy funds for grants to pay off gas/, electric & water arrears and for assistance payments for white goods & furniture. Gas & Electric pre-payment meter top-ups
Budgeting support, benefit optimisation
Welfare support: Foodbank & lunch clubs: We run a foodbank & a number of lunch clubs. Prison outreach and through the gates support at HMP Peterborough
Employment/Self-employment and Enterprise support: mentoring, skills development and work for the unemployed. We providing support to people wanting to go self-employed/considering starting a business

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.

THOMAS provides residential and community-based substance misuse rehabilitation, recovery and resettlement services in Blackburn, Salford, Lancashire and Manchester. We work closely with prisons, CRCs and the National Probation Service. We have a residential rehabilitation unit, Witton Bank, Blackburn, and a PHE funded “Gateways” abstinent recovery house for men leaving prison. In Salford we have a residential rehabilitation house for men and one for women, with move on abstinent houses. We are fully CQC and Supporting People compliant and have NHS Information Governance Toolkit level 3.
We support 500 people at a time. We have 20 years experience of working with offenders, many of whom are prolific and persistent offenders, with sustained addictions and complex life stories. We have a large network of peer mentors, who have completed programmes with us, and are now supported to mentor others just beginning recovery. Some go on to work for THOMAS, including at management level.

thrivin’ together cic is a woman-led, lived-experience organisation dedicated to supporting women impacted by their own or someone else's gambling.

Founded by women with personal experience, thrivin’ together’s mission is to offer “choice, voice and change” for women across the UK . This means creating a safe space where women can seek help without stigma, make informed choices, and actively shape the services they receive. The organisation operates on principles of co-production and lived experience, ensuring that women who have lived through gambling harm are at the heart of designing and delivering support programs.

thrivin’ together provides advice, peer support, referrals, and opportunities for women to rebuild confidence, connect with others, and ultimately thrive both as individuals and as a community

Tomorrow’s Women is a Charity for all women aged 18+ to make positive lifestyle changes. Working with female offenders, and those on the periphery, it is committed to reducing offending in adult women.
An award winning charity, with a multi-agency approach they support women through targeted interventions to address underlying support areas for each woman.
Open Monday-Friday 9am - 3:30pm they work across Wirral and Cheshire West & Chester. TW have achieved outstanding outcomes with women into employment, recovery and away from (re)offending through service engagement, learning opportunities & addressing behaviours in an all-female safe community hub.
Tomorrow's Women hosts the National Probation Service & Merseyside Community Rehabilitation Company whose dedicated team of Offender Managers supervise all female offenders subject to Community Orders and Licensed Conditions.
Referrals can be made via professionals or women can self-refer.

We are an infrastructure body supporting the work of all charitable and volunteer-using organisations in Torbay. We represent the local voluntary sector at strategic level and assist local groups to help local people via various support and service activities. Our Volunteer Bureau assists individuals to find potential volunteer roles.

Touchstone works with people and communities across West Yorkshire, delivering a wide range of mental health and wellbeing services in partnership with others. These include the Step Change programme to support offenders with mental health problems into work; the Community Support Team offering assertive outreach support to people with severe and enduring mental health problems and chaotic lives, and a project to support female offenders with mental health problems. We have also facilitated a peer support group for lifers in the community.

Trailblazers trains, supports and supervises volunteers who mentor young offenders aged 18-25yrs for six months inside prison and up to twelve months after release. The aims are to help the offender increase self-awareness and achieve changes in thinking, attitude and behaviour.

To ensure that transgender prisoners are protected

Trinity Winchester is a unique Winchester-based charity which addresses the effects of homelessness and vulnerability through specialist practical and emotional support, and proactive prevention, empowering positive change.

We help people who are vulnerable to the effects of homelessness, addiction, physical and mental ill-health, poverty, social isolation and domestic abuse. We offer solutions, hope, choice and control.

Through our direct access services we offer a wide range of interventions including food, laundry/bathing facilities, advice & information, homelessness prevention and outreach, health care, learning & skills programme, counselling & complementary therapies, and women specific services

T2 provides community support to adults living in West Berkshire. We have a variety of interventions available including specialist prescribing, abstinent and non abstinent based group work and a counselling service. We accept referrals from a variety of agencies of people can self refer by attending one of our drop in's.

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.

Ubique Partnerships provides information, advice and guidance to offenders, including a bespoke service to offenders who have served in the armed forces; employment and skills development for women offenders; voluntary work experience placements; and project management and consultancy, including European-funded projects.

With a history spanning over a century, UK Youth is a leading national charity committed to ensuring all young people are empowered to build bright futures, regardless of their background or circumstances.
It’s our mission to provide all young people with access to appropriate, high quality services in their local community or online.

We sit at the heart of a national network of members, brought together through our merger with Ambition, to support an estimated four million young people across the UK. Together with our network, we offer support, advice and training to equip young people with the vital life skills needed to engage in education, volunteering and employment.

Unlimited Potential is a community-owned social enterprise that uses social innovation for happiness, investing in the strengths and skills of lay people. We run a series of services for happiness and health that aim to help people have more fulfilling lives.