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We deliver a range of projects for the communities of Calderdale. We have specific expertise in mentoring and befriending support for offenders and adults with additional support needs. Alongside this we have a wealth of experience of volunteer co-ordination and management of other volunteering programmes. We provide safeguarding support and training from our own premises in Halifax.

We run four Volunteer Centres and a network of Community Volunteer Co-ordinators, recruiting and deploying thousands of volunteers of all ages each year. We deliver frontline projects including befriending, training programmes, tackling worklessness, capacity building for personalisation and neighbourhood development.

As a Council for Voluntary Service and we support volunteers and voluntary organisations we help voluntary and community groups to build their capacity and sustainability through face to face and telephone support.

We also provide an effective voice for voluntary sector concerns in our engagement with local strategic bodies in the public sector.

Through our trading arm, Charity BackRoom, we offer a range of back-office services including HR and employment law support, DBS checks, accountancy, payroll and insurance brokerage for local groups.

The Volunteer Centre is part of a national network of centres that help voluntary and community organisations recruit and manage their volunteers, and it helps people interested in volunteering to find interesting and enjoyable opportunities. We recruit volunteers for charitable organisations and events, working with Dorset County Council, NHS, probation and many other organisations. We also work with people with learning disabilities.

We support individuals who would like to look at the option of volunteering in local community and voluntary groups. We offer a free guidance session to help explore any barriers or signpost to relevant support services. We also engage with groups that wish to recruit volunteers.

We provide a range of interventions and services for those affected by substance misuse, from needle exchange to harm minimisation and 12-Step abstinence approaches. Enhancing these interventions are diversionary activities projects. We also deliver CARAT services in the Welsh public prison estate.

We are a social enterprise providing specialist provision for young people involved with the youth justice system. We offer three main services: one-to-one support & supervision; group work programmes; specialist mentoring. We work with individuals around the clock including evenings and weekends and help to connect them with local community resources that are open outside usual office hours.

Women in Prison is a national charity, dedicated to making a difference to the lives of women affected by the criminal justice system by providing holistic, women-centred support in prisons and the community in order to enable them to meet their resettlement needs and reduce the risk of re-offending. We also educate the public and policy makers about women in contact with the criminal justice system, to promote alternatives to custody and provide a voice for women’s experiences.

The organisation offers a safe and supportive environment run by women for women without exclusion. We strive to help women become emotionally resilient, stronger and more independent.

We support women to achieve aims, reach potential and work towards their own personal fulfilment. We strengthen social inclusion and increase economic proficiency therefore reducing oppression, inequality and social exclusion.
The centre provides a rolling programme of workshops that are relevant to women. These learning programmes provide the stepping stones to increase self-belief and improved levels of confidence enabling them to address their issues and build a better life for themselves and their families

Women’s Work (Derbyshire) Ltd is a National Award Winning Charity based in Derby that supports women with complex needs of all ages. Many have become disadvantaged due to homelessness, domestic violence, drug addiction and mental/physical ill health. We offer support to those who wish to change their current lifestyle and try to tackle drug addiction within the client group. The organisation has a number of key partners who support its aims to delver sustainable changes and improvements in health and well- being for these individuals and their familes. There are currently four active projects each with it's own perfomance indicators and outcomes. These are - Below The Radar Project- The Link Work Project- The Little Links Project and The TurnAround Project. We deliver the domestic violence programme - The Freedom Programme and the Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities Parenting Progamme and we deliver a range of workshops including confidence courses, IT and Basic Maths

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.

Ycs Skills Centre is a Cisco-approved Network Academy offering IT apprenticeship to anyone who is serious about IT qualifications. Our apprenticeship programme is for those who are not in employment, education or training and are ex-offenders.

We are an adult drug treatment agency; to access our services, you need either to be using drugs or have previously been a drug user.

YMCA Exeter's Perspectives Project exists to empower, educate and mentor young men caught up in the Criminal Justice System.

Working with young men on community orders, suspended sentences or post-sentence supervision there are three key strands to our work:

Learning: We run small group community based courses for ex-offenders that focus on personal and interpersonal skills.

Mentoring: In association with Dorset, Devon and Cornwall CRC, we offer one to one mentoring support for young men on probation as part of their community order. Mentoring addresses: housing; food and finance; mental health and wellbeing; purpose and identity; support networks and contributing to society, including employment.

Therapeutic Activity: We run a Social and Therapeutic Horticulture Programme on our community allotment. This programme provides physical and mental space for enrichment and a supportive community through growing and sowing together. We also run cooking classes in the winter.

YMCA North Tyneside is a registered charity that supports
children and young people to be healthy, happy and connected. We focus specifically on young people through our supported accommodation (homeless young people with multiple and complex needs) and our youth and community work in local areas of high deprivation, some of the highest in the country. We support all ages in the community through our Nursery, Gym and Cafe. Our award winning (Youth Matter Awards, 2019) Supported Accommodation project has doubled in the last 18 months. We support young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessess across North Tyneside and neighbouring boroughs of Northumberland, South Tyneside and Newcastle. Our young people have multiple and complex needs such as mental health problems, learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorders, attachment disorders ADHD and ADD. Many are young offenders and some have been in prison.

MESMAC is a sexual health project, working predominantly with gay and bisexual men and men who have sex with men, dealing with sexual health and prevention of HIV and AIDS throughout West and North Yorkshire. Its community development approach means that it is also concerned with the wider lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGB&T) health, social and equity agendas.

We have an integrated EETEA model for reducing reoffending and reintegration of prisoners on release.

Engagement: We have been working in prisons as a prisoner led initiative since 2015 providing information on sentence planning and progression.

Education and Training: Our Academy provides fully funded soft skills critical thinking and personal development courses, as well as vocational NVQs, and apprenticeships to serving prisoners and prison leavers.

Employment: We offer a careers service for serving prisoners nearing end of sentence and prison leavers. Prisoners who enter our Pathways Programme receive a guaranteed offer of employment on release with one of our sponsoring employers.

Accommodation: We aim to ensure those on our Pathways Programme are financially supported into accommodation.

Mentoring: We provide 12 months post-release mentoring for Pathways graduates those who need it.

Coaching: We provide coaching to sponsoring employers staff on reintegration support needs.

Youth Ink is a lived experience led charity operating in the heart of communities, we are experts by experience.
We work in co-production with young people stakeholders, adopting our innovative peer-led approach.

We use the power of peer networks to rehabilitate and to create safer communities for the future.
We enable young people caught up in the cycle of crime, addiction, mental health or care, to improve the services they receive. In turn, improving their life chances benefits them and their family, friends, neighbours, and the local community.