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LITC is a pioneering Social Enterprise providing Youth Citizenship, Volunteering and International exchange programmes, Sports and Development and Community Engagement projects, as well as a Apprenticeships to young people in a range of dynamic training qualifications. Working on a Local, National and International platform, LITC strives to make a difference to our societies. LITC's youth services provide a wraparound support services, through Traineeships, Information Advice and Guidance, International programs and Apprenticeships.

We run community service sessions with young people coming through the criminal justice system. We train them in fine art and design skills. They have supported our work with public realm installations. We have also taken prisoners leaving prisons, preparing them for life outside.
We have a collection of art work by offenders that is suitable for touring.
Our Director is interested in the planned closure of prisons, leading to the Abolition of Prisons.

Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) is a coalition of Clinks, Homeless Link and Mind formed to improve policy and services for people facing multiple needs. Together the charities represent over 1,300 frontline organisations and have an interest in the criminal justice, substance misuse, homelessness and mental health sectors.

We are a specialist mentoring agency, helping young people avoid involvement in crime and to settle into the community. We work with NEET (not in employment, education and training) young people, ex-offenders and those vulnerable to criminality in the South London area.

Whether you are an agency helping young people or a young person yourself. Feel free to contact us to discuss any of our services or resources.

METRO is a leading equality & diversity charity, providing health, community & youth services across London & the South East & national & international projects.

METRO promotes health, wellbeing, equality & participation through youth services, mental health & wellbeing services, sexual & reproductive health & HIV services and community participation & involvement.

METRO works with anyone experiencing issues related to gender, sexuality, diversity or identity.

METRO is at the outset of providing Independent Advocacy and sexual health services within prisons.

MHM was established 30 years ago by families and carers in the North East to provide support and care for people they loved with mental health problems.

Today we have grown into a major national organisation supporting people with learning disabilities, drug and alcohol and other problems, as well as our core client group of people with mental health needs, across the UK through a range of evidence based and innovative services.

Our fully trained, dedicated, experienced and caring staff work with partner organisations to deliver comprehensive services to meet a full range of personal needs in a seamless manner to help vulnerable people to develop, ‘recover’ and move on to independent living whenever possible.

We provide support to more than 60,000 people every year, covering many aspects of their lives: from psychological and well-being therapeutic recovery interventions through to everyday employment, housing, independent and community support needs.

The Mother and Child Welfare Organisation (MACWO) is a charity dedicated to providing physical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city mothers and children as well as young people, as well we do provide the course to support people to get back to work. MACWO has had tremendous success in terms of delivering projects, which contribute to its overall aims and objectives. Of course it is important to note that this success would not have come about without the genuine support of its funders, supporters and partners who have contributed enormously.

At Nacro, we see your future, whatever the past.

That’s why our housing, justice, substance misuse and education services work alongside people to give them the support and skills they need to succeed. And it's why we fight for their voices to be heard and campaign together to create lasting change

As an established charity with almost 50 years of experience, we champion social justice, putting crime prevention and reduction at the core of policy and support services.

Throughout England and Wales we deliver interventions which are consistently high quality, evidence based and outcome focused so that we can maximise our impact in communities.

Our Nacro Education division offers a range of vocational Get Set! courses and apprenticeships. Crafted to support young people to gain the qualifications and skills they need to start their career.

NAPA CIC is an association of the eleven providers of independently managed Approved Premises (IAPs) in England and Wales. All Approved Premises (APs), whether run independently or by the state directly, provide community based residential facilities for those who have offended.

NAPA Aims To: Deliver a range of services and functions that support and assist the work of our associate IAPs by contributing to the achievement of best practice, consistency and high-quality service delivery across the whole of the sector.

New Bridge match people in prisons with trained volunteers who offer long-term support through a combination of correspondence and visits. This provides people in prison with a bridge to the outside world, along with an increased sense of value and potential for their future.

New Horizon Youth Centre is a day centre based in Somers Town, Kings Cross working with young vulnerable people from backgrounds of disadvantage and destitution. Our Creating Positive Futures Project works specifically with Youth Offenders and young people Leaving Care from throughout London and the UK. We provide an avenue of change for 2,000 vulnerable young people each year. We make that change positive. We prevent the situation from worsening and provide the opportunity at a crisis point for people to make positive choices and positive changes. Our outreach works includes street outreach, work in prison, resettlement support and preventative work in schools. We provide a flexible response, supporting vulnerable people whose needs are not being adequately met through local or national strategies at any particular time and those who are destitute, with no statutory entitlement at all. We work with young people who are gang affiliated to secure safe accommodation and services.

Offploy is on a mission to make the world a safer place by supporting people at risk of offending to maximise their life's potential.
We run peer-mentoring and support services commissioned by private funders, DWP, MoJ and our own retained surplus.

Offploy also provides HR consultancy services and training to employers to support them to actively hire people with convictions.

Our in-house CRM instantly tracks our impact, reports information to commissioners and ensures our colleagues can spend less time on admin and more time on supporting people.

Offploy sees over 800 people per year access our service across England and Wales.

We specialise in finding jobs in the hospitality industry for anyone who is or has been homeless, an ex-offender or a vulnerable veteran.Through a close working relationship with the Ministry of Justice, we liaise with New Futures Network Job Brokers & in-prison coaches from the DWP. We hold pre-release recruitment affairs and are about to commence a strategy whereby our partner employers embark on joint projects with selected prisons both in terms of skills delivery and capital investment. The sponsorship of kitchens will be a key part of the strategy. We are also working in partnership with the key custodial education providers including Novus and Sodexo and of the 108 UK prisons, have identified 58 prisons which provide pre-release training & education covering hospitality

Founded in 2006 by Pallant House Gallery (and still based at the Gallery in Chichester), Outside In aims to provide opportunities for artists with a desire to create who see themselves as facing a barrier to the art world for reasons including health, disability or social circumstance. The goal of the project is to create a fairer art world which rejects traditional values and institutional judgements about whose work can and should be displayed. Since its inception, Outside In has engaged more than 5,000 artists traditionally excluded from the mainstream art world, 170,000 audience members and 80 partner organisations nationally. We have held over 30 exhibitions and currently support 2,000 artists. Additionally, Outside In is now able to offer an increasingly international platform for the artists it supports, having taken part in the 2014 Paris Outsider Art Fair, and being on the board of the European Outsider Art Association.

P3's main aim is to give people the practical skills and self esteem that they need to sustain an independent and self sufficient lifestyle by providing opportunities and support to help vulnerable people move from social exclusion to inclusion.

P3 offers successful and lasting routes out of social exclusion and homelessness by operating a variety of effective services to help to overcome the challenges that the public sector can no longer tackle alone in creating positive outcomes to people at real risk of social exclusion.

We've been around for over 30 years, working in some of the most deprived areas of the UK with some of the most at risk groups in our society, helping them to rebuild their lives. And we're pretty good at it too. We support hundreds of people every day to take control of their lives and move towards social inclusion and healthy positive lifestyles.

Pecan is a Peckham based charity working to tackle the causes of poverty and multiple disadvantage. Within Pecan, the Southwark and Lewisham Women's Hubs provide support for women affected by the criminal justice system and experiencing complex needs. The hubs enable women to access 1:1 advocacy from a Women's Advocate, a safe space to access information and advice, as well as a programme of holistic activities which promote improved wellbeing and mental health. We work in partnership with probation, as well as other voluntary sector organisations providing support to women in the borough.

As an organisation, Pecan has been serving people through a variety of local projects for over 30 years.

St Giles Trust's digital resettlement platform Peer Assist offers resettlement help 24/7 online and during office hours over the phone. Offered by trained Peer Advisors, Peer Assist can help ex-offenders and their families across the UK by offering advice, signposting people to St Giles Trust services or external ones.

Penrose is a charity that has been supporting people with complex needs for 50 years. As a Tier 2 provider for London CRC, we currently deliver the following high-performing services:

• Resettlement support to 6,000 men per year in 4 male prisons
• Community supervision of 2,500 men sentenced to less than 12 months, with our Responsible Officers based in every London borough
• Job Fairs that bring together a range of employers and trainers, providing service users a one-stop shop of live opportunities, CV and disclosure workshops and interview technique classes

Outside of our probation work, we deliver a wide range of residential and floating support services across London, Brighton and Bedfordshire, with a particular focus on mental health (including forensic), substance misuse and complex needs.

Phoenix Futures provides services for people with drug and alcohol problems. We offer services within community, prison and residential settings in England and Scotland. Through our expertise we are able to support our service users at every stage of their recovery.

We have worked with a number of Probation Trusts delivering specialist substance misuse services.

Looking to expand our services to support ex-offenders, Plan B Projects originally designed to provide mentoring to individuals aged 14-19 in education, employment or training and are at risk of expulsion, due to behavioural problems. We employ Person Centred Approaches to develop Plan B Projects. Our programme designed to nurture the dreams and aspirations of individuals. Role Models employed to identify individual’s barrier to learning, preferred learning methods, strength/talents. We use creative/stimulating motivational activities to develop these abilities leading to understanding of how positive engagement in society act as spring board to achieving ones dream.