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2MakeIt has a successful track record of delivering rehabilitative music programmes with prisoners and ex-prisoners. Following consultation with prisoners, prison staff, academics, other charities and supporters, we are developing new programmes to meet a need for creativity in prisons. We provide a more flexible approach to develop creative programmes alongside prisoners and prison staff to respond more directly to local needs to enable prisoners 2MakeIt in an environment which is both rehabilitative and creative. A key component involves establishing relationships with charity staff delivering programmes which are aimed at increasing prisoners’ confidence, self-esteem and ability to work with others through a creative environment to aid rehabilitation. Programme delivery depends on the identified needs of the prison and could include activities from the visual arts to music or creative writing. Where possible the relationships will continue post-release to aid resettlement.

3 Pillars Project works within the criminal justice system, using a combination of teamwork and rugby coaching courses as a way of engaging young people to deliver positive role-modelling and mentorship. We target high-risk young people, including under-18s, to tackle violence in prisons and gang-related behaviour through positive intervention. We also provide emotional support and guidance during each course through group discussion sessions and one-to-one mentoring relationships directed towards rehabilitation and reintegration on release from prison. We provide long-term support to all course participants, including referrals to appropriate partner organisations and/or encouraging future participation in subsequent courses as assistant coaches and peer mentors.

3SC manages contracts on behalf of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. The delivery of public services is a difficult and competitive marketplace, dominated by large commercial organisations that can lack the person-centred and inclusive approach to public services that the VCSE sector excels at delivering. 3SC gives these organisations a chance to compete for, and ultimately deliver, such contracts. We have built supply chains and worked with more than 550 different delivery organisations across 16 programmes in the welfare to work/employment, young people, criminal justice, and disabilities’ arenas. 3SC has supported and enabled the VCSE sector to access more than £62 million since its inception through our directly delivered contracts and Transforming Rehabilitation activities. We believe that the needs of people using public services, especially those who are hardest to reach, are best met by experienced, local, passionate and mission-driven organisations.

A Way Forward Foundation offers counselling and mentoring support to children, adolescents, adults and their families in King's Norton and the surrounding areas of Birmingham: anyone who has mental health issues and concerns. Its mission is to promote their well-being by providing accessible, cost-effective, quality mental health care for them, aiming to reduce both their isolation and their dependency on public services, and to increase their self-esteem and confidence, and thus their quality-of-life. The Foundation aims to provide outdoor activities that will build confidence, motivation and team building, and offers mentoring to children and young people, providing emotional guidance, a sense of continuity and stability.

abandofbrothers was established in 2008 by men committed to positive social change through personal development and community building. It serves the most vulnerable young men by inviting them to collaborate in a meaningful and common purpose. This is achieved by providing local adult men with powerful training that develops mentoring skills, emotional intelligence and enhances authenticity and confidence. The rites of passage experience we provide for young men allows them to deal with the trauma of their past. Armed with the support of a mentor and the abandofbrothers community, young men move on to live lives of purpose and meaning.

Actes is a training and skills provider and embraces a “client-led” approach to service delivery in response to the worklessness agenda. It delivers a portfolio of services characterised by identifying the needs of the individual, genuine engagement, and developing innovative solutions to widespread problems.

Adelaide House Female Approved Premises is an award winning establishment, one of the eleven independently managed Approved Premises(IAP)in the country - operationally indistinguishable from the National Probation Service(NPS)estate. We are run by a small charity based in Liverpool - Liverpool Diocese Council for Social Aid and have been in existence and working with under privileged women since 1823. We are a national resource being one of only six female AP facilities in the country and we primarily provide enhanced supervision, structure and support for high risk of harm and/or complex need women in the Criminal Justices System either on release from prison as a condition of licence or as a residential requirement of a Community Order. We also have a small number of voluntary beds which women at risk are able to access including an Emergency Domestic Violence Victim bed. We deliver a wide range of services working in partnership with both statutory and community agencies.

Employment, housing, education, complaints, community asset acquisition, welfare rights, criminal justice reports, human rights, access to healthcare and community care.

Age UK Lancashire is a charity working with and for older people over 50. We have funding for a Development Officer, who liaises with services in and outside the prison (HMP Wymott) to help in the resettlement of released prisoners and to provide help, information and advice, and run groups and activities, for all older prisoners in that prison.

Founded in 1991, we provide housing, support and domiciliary care to people recovering from drug or alcohol misuse | with mental health support needs | who have a learning disability | who are vulnerable young people | who are vulnerable families including single parents.

We do this by providing good quality housing, whether owned by us, leased from or managed on behalf of others. We encourage independence by helping with budgeting, finding work, training or education, finding and keeping permanent accommodation, overcoming social isolation and engaging with the community.

We are a women's community service, with a busy centre offering a one-stop-shop approach for women and their children. We offer community sentences as alternatives to custody by way of specified activity requirements,community payback and mental health treatment requirements. We offer family support and safeguarding, with a creche on site. We have prison in-reach to HMPs Eastwood Park, Drake Hall and Foston Hall offering resettlement support through the gate, with outreach on streets to sex workers. We offer accommodation floating support with partnerships with various housing providers. We have our own Independent Domestic Violence Advisor on site and offer in-house training courses on DV as well as many other topics. The project is well established having been in existence for 28 years. We have a strong team of volunteers and Catholic Sisters who offer a range of skills, personalities and strengths. We also provide enrichment activities in the CAMEO unit at HMP Foston hall.

Anglia Care Trust (ACT) is a charity dedicated to supporting vulnerable people, having worked with offenders, ex-offenders and their families for over 40 years. There are 3 core themes to our work: Helping people to keep a roof over their heads; Helping people to be heard; Helping people to feel safe.

In achieving this, we deliver a range of interconnected support services, inclusive of: Intensive Support; Floating Support; Advice; Guidance; Advocacy; Mediation; Housing; Alcohol Recovery; and Domestic Abuse Services.

Apex Trust provides information, advice and guidance to offenders/ex-offenders, supporting them into employment, training, education and voluntary work by assisting them in breaking down the barriers they face when moving forward with a conviction. Based in St Helens with outreach across the Liverpool City Region, ACT 4 Women is a peer support project. Beneficiaries are unemployed women ex-offenders. Former/current service users play a central role in its delivery & development. We offer Level 2 Award in Peer Mentoring, our accredited training programme, which involves opportunities to engage within communities and develop a positive sense of self, based on helping others. One of the key by-products of our work is to reduce re-offending and to achieve better integration of our clients into society. Our service is not time limited and is delivered at a pace to suit the individual to enable them to achieve their goals.

The Arkbound Foundation works with people from disadvantaged backgrounds to help them get into publishing and journalism. We can provide mentorship, supervised work placements, workshops and other support.

Aspire is an Oxfordshire based employment charity which creates and brokers accessible, meaningful work placement, training and paid employment opportunities for individuals facing complex barriers to work - including on our own social enterprises, delivering grounds and property maintenance to commercial, public and private customers.

Aspire runs its own 'Through the Gate' project, engaging offenders in HMP Spring Hill and Bullingdon, as well as ex-offenders in the community in Oxfordshire, Milton Keynes and High Wycombe.

Avon Trans People are a completely inclusive self help group for those considering or undergoing gender reassignment for all gender presentations and those trying to understand gender today and need someone to talk to. They signpost and offer personalised support for: medical and treatment issues; emotional and family concerns; 'passing' problems; and legal matters.

BAC-IN is a culturally specific, Peer Led, award winning, 'grass roots' drug and alcohol recovery service. In 2003 BAC-IN developed a unique and successful 'transformative recovery' programme designed to help the Black and Minority Ethnic communities with recovery focused and offender rehabilitation support.

BAC-IN uses an integrated and culturally competent approach, which offers a diverse range of services designed to maximise transformative recovery, supporting individuals to take personal responsibility so that they may achieve freedom from addiction and become productive individuals within their communities.

Whilst BAC-IN is a culturally specific service, it is not culturally exclusive. We work in partnership across all sections of society, sharing good practice, consortia work and consultancy.

Back on Track is a Manchester charity that enables disadvantaged adults to make lasting, positive changes in their lives. We work with people who are going through a process of recovery or rehabilitation, having been through problems with offending, alcohol or drugs, homelessness or mental health.

We have a busy and welcoming learning centre in central Manchester where we offer a range of support and activities including training courses, one to one guidance and work experience. Our courses have a strong focus on health and wellbeing and arts and cultural activities as well as covering functional skills.

Our progression team work closely with a number of national and local employers to provide support with employability. We also have a very successful catering social enterprise which allows us to offer work placements and employment.

With our project Inside and Out we run a lifeskills course in HMP Manchester followed by through the gate support on release.

Back On Track Housing is a community support organisation providing long-term, sustainable private accommodation and support for vulnerable people, we have been working with vulnerable homeless individuals for the last 10 months. These individuals have been referred by organisations such as the local authorities, charities organisations and NHS. Back on Track desire to reach out and develop this further by housing vulnerable homeless individuals who are not eligible under the housing act for referral i.e. rough sleepers, ex offenders, ex drugs and alcohol users and many young vulnerable adults.

We provide facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupations in the interests of social welfare, for those who by reason of their crimes, youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstance, have need of such facilities. Back On Track working in partnership with music industry to help some of our client who is inclined/has a natural talent for music to produce and working in partnership with local business enterprises for as many that has difficulty in securing jobs for reason of their criminal records.

We have an extensive database of Private Sector Landlords across London that support us in providing self contained and shared accommodation, our landlord’s waiver all deposits, agreed to accept one month’s rent in advance and accept client on housing benefit. All rents are within LHA across London.

All properties are inspected by a member of our team to ensure all safety certificates are in place prior to client’s viewings and we are accredited by London landlord Accreditation Scheme. We can house in the same day of referral and provide on- going service for our clients 24/7.

Back On Track are now working in partnership with food bank in London ie. NCC edmonton food bank where we arrange collection for some of our clients to settle into a new accommodation or community.

Barton Hill Settlement enables our community to actively participate in positive, life-affirming activities. We offer a unique space for residents of Barton Hill and the surrounding area to celebrate, learn, create, develop, relax, socialise and play. From young people to the more mature; from new residents of our locality to those who have lived here all of their lives are all welcome.