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We provide practical support to Britons held in prison overseas. We also help them resettle in the UK when they return here upon release, and we provide practical and emotional support to their families and friends throughout the process.

The Prisoners' Advice Service provides free legal advice and representation to adult prisoners in England and Wales regarding their rights, and regardless of the individual prisoners' means. PAS aims to educate and empower prisoners regarding the law and their legal and human rights.

PRHA has provided housing & support since 1850, registering as a RSL in 1975. We support single homeless people, rough sleepers, those with mental health support needs, substance misuse issues, families, care leavers, older people and ex-offenders, delivering specialist services to some of the most socially excluded people in East London. We operate in the LB Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Islington & City of London. We provide a range of hostel accommodation, floating support, specialist services & general needs housing.
We have services specifically for people involved in the criminal justice system: Two mental health Link Worker projects (link people with mental health issues back into support), probation based housing advice service, a women's one-stop shop & a user-led peer support service. We coordinate a Community of Practice for frontline workers to discuss good practice in working with people with complex needs.

Rape Crisis Surrey and Sussex(RCSAS) are an independent specialist rape and sexual abuse support centre based in the Crawley area. We provide expert support for female survivors of any form of sexual violence aged 13+ who live or work in East Surrey and West Sussex.
At RCSAS we recognise that sexual violence exists on the continuum of violence against women and girls. All of our services support survivors of all forms of sexual violence.We offer a holistic, woman-only, and professional service. All of our services are offered free of charge to survivors under the age of 18, and are provided on a donation basis for those who are aged 18 or over.
We believe that survivors of sexual violence are the experts of their own lives, and consequently all of our workers are led by the women and girls we support. Whenever it happened, whatever happened, and however many times it has happened, all survivors deserve the very best support.

We co-create a range of interventions with and for care leavers and care experienced people across the UK

The Restorative Justice for All (RJ4All) International Institute is a charitable NGO with a mission to advance community cohesion and human rights. We redistribute power in a more equal way by delivering social justice projects, educational programmes and high quality volunteering opportunities to the most marginalised groups of society.

We do this by using the power of education, sports and art, as well as the practices (mediation, conferencing, circles, dialogue, workshops) and values of restorative justice including power sharing, fairness, equality, dignity and respect.

Restorative Thinking is a Social Enterprise. We work with Prison and Probation Services, PCCs and Youth Offending Services to implement and develop restorative ways of working. Our input ranges from restorative training and whole organisational culture change to delivery of our evidence-based restorative intervention programmes.

During COVID 19, we are looking for partners to develop a digital learning platform for our evidence-based restorative and relational intervention programmes.

RT is a restorative organisation, proud recipients of the RSQM and the TPQM.

Recent projects include:

1) HMPPS funded pilot to rigorously test restorative practice as a means of fostering inclusive residential environments in Approved Premises (Midlands, NE Divisions)
2) County wide delivery of restorative domestic abuse perpetrator programme (Cumbria PCC), independent evaluation available on request.

Run For Your Life CIC

What We Do
Supporting Prison Governors: A Leadership Lifeline
We coach-train-mentor small groups of prison governors on Zoom so that they can stay sane, think clearly under pressure and bring their people with them while operating remotely in difficult circumstances.
This work started during the Covid-19 pandemic 2020 and has grown in scope to include Deputy Governors and other senior leaders.

Supporting People In Prison & Probation: A Frontline Lifeline
STUCK in a cycle of apathy, disengagement, addiction or violence.
At the START of a new stage in their role, treatment or rehabilitation.
Striving to SUPPORT each other as a team or family unit.

Our breakthrough program brings staff and service users together to practice the skills of collaboration to achieve shared goals.

Different, disruptive and deliberately difficult to complete.
24 hours of Physically Active Learning in 3 consecutive days.
Improved mental health

Safe Ground works to reduce the risk of offending and reoffending based on a continually developing understanding of the origins and impact of crime and a commitment to empowering people to change.

Safer London is a leading London charity working with young Londoners and their families affected by violence and exploitation.
Through one to one intervention and targeted group work we’re supporting young Londoners to move onto the positive futures that they deserve. We put young Londoners at the centre of their support, focusing on them and their needs. By building strong, trusting relationships we gain an insight into their world, begin to understand what they need and together find the best ways to keep them safe.
Understanding that young Londoners’ lives are shaped by the world in which they live, we work not only with them and their families, but also their peer networks and directly within the community and the places where they live and spend their time.
With a footprint in every borough in London, we build trusting, professional partnerships to embed our approaches and work towards achieving our vision of a city that is safer for all the young Londoners who live here.

We are a social inclusion charity that aims to create better futures for young people and adults in the North West. In 2019/2020, we helped 15,000+ people in the community, prison and women’s centres. We operate mainly in Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Lancashire. Key activities include:
• Digital skills, financial literacy, careers learning, enterprise activities and mentoring support in schools and colleges to raise aspirations.
• Targeted youth services including mentoring and family support for vulnerable children and young people.
• Information, advice, guidance, employment and training support to disadvantaged young people and adults.
• Specialist adult services from offender management and rehabilitation, money skills, debt advice and fuel poverty advice to domestic abuse services.
• Group health and wellbeing activities and peer-led support

We work with young offenders, vulnerable women and men with complex needs.

Seetec has over 29 years experience of delivering employability and skills programmes across the UK, including DWP Work Programme, Work Choice, SFA Skills Support for the Unemployed, Apprenticeships and NOMS ESF Programme. We have supported 100,000 customers in the last year engaging a wide range of customer groups, including ex-offenders through the Work Programme (across 3 CPAs nationally) and through our NOMS ESF contract. Through delivery of these programmes, Seetec has developed strong partnerships with over 500 framework partners nationally that provide support and guidance to customers with multiple needs. Provision includes support for Local Authorities (LAs) and voluntary sector organisations.

Shelter offer free, confidential and independent advice and information to people with housing related problems. This includes services delivered under the MoJ's Dynamic Framework in Yorkshire and The Humber and East Midlands. Shelter deliver accommodation interventions to service users and expert advice and training to professionals, in order to support people subject to probation supervision to resettle in their communities.

An award winning Leicestershire charity, established in 1986, we use arts, media and music activities to make positive life changes for disadvantaged young people by supporting them to develop creative, social and employability skills. For young people who lack opportunities or have challenges in their lives it can be hard to look forward to a positive future. Our projects help them get back on track when have gone wrong, build the confidence and resilience to change negative or risky behaviours, and progress to lead more fulfilling lives. Different agencies refer young people to our projects and our work responds to and tackles local and national issues such as anti-social behaviour and unhealthy lifestyles. We believe creativity gives young people more positive choices in their lives. We know it works because we have seen it happen.

Spark Inside runs coaching programmes in prisons across London and the South East, to encourage rehabilitation and reduce reoffending. We offer two coaching programmes;
The Conversation is our systems coaching programme that brings together large groups of prison staff and prisoners in a facilitated group coaching process to enhance their relationships, improve empathy, and support sustained, positive cultural change on prison wings.
Hero’s Journey is our structured life coaching programme for young people aged 15-25, in prison and through-the-gates, building their motivation to change, decreasing in-prison violence and creating a pro-social identity away from crime to reduce reoffending.
Our expert coaches are qualified and trained professionals.

Spark2Life is determined to make sure that all children and young people have a safe and nurturing life. We work in schools and the community to prevent criminal activity, tackle exclusion, reduce racial disproportionality and increase emotional resilience of young people (11+yrs) affected by violence.

Our services in the community and education are delivered in London, Kent and Buckinghamshire where we provide therapeutic mentoring, casework, counselling and awareness programmes to prevent young people from gang violence, offending and criminal exploitation.
We provide family support and training to professionals through Trauma Informed courses and AQA Accredited Wholistic Mentoring.

160,000 children each year have a parent in prison. At Spurgeons, our aim is to improve the lives of those children and their families who are affected by a parent being in prison. Our prisoner and family support services across England allow children to visit their loved ones in a friendly environment and our mentoring and support programmes give young people the change to reduce negative behaviours and build a better future.
We work in the heart of communities, delivering a range of high quality, flexible services for those affected by imprisonment and offending. These include; running Prison Visitors’ Centres; mentoring - pre and post release; family days; parenting Programmes in prisons; Family Support Programmes for offenders and their families; through the gate support and family re-integration; community support services for families of offenders; and training for partner organisations.

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.

Street Soccer Academy is a professional service provider that specialises in the rehabilitation and reintegration of vulnerable and ‘at-risk’ individuals into communities. We work on behalf of some of the nation’s hardest to reach groups within our communities. Our custody to community model is in operation in HMP Forest Bank and has proven to be very successful over the three-year period we have operated in partnership with them. Street Soccer Academy offers two main streams of service delivery – a football based coach education programme and health and fitness programme. Our community based regional centres provide the opportunity to continue engaging with the participants once released and to develop their roles in society. With 80 men a year having completed our internal programmes, more than 90% choose to engage with us in community and we have an associated reoffending rate of just 8%.

We are a national charity that teaches emergency life saving skills to young people. Specifically we target high risk young people that are likely to be affected by violent crime. Our teaching includes what to do when someone is bleeding and what to do when someone is unconscious. As well as providing them with key skills, we hope to empower these individuals to make a positive difference in their area, instilling a sense of social responsibility and creating a lasting change in their attitudes towards violent crime. All teaching is provided by medical students or qualified doctors who work tirelessly to ensure all content is of the highest quality. Our teaching plans are custom made and are specifically targeted at young people. They are designed to be simple, interactive and memorable. We already work with numerous centres nationwide, including youth groups, charities, secure units and youth offending teams, providing regular sessions to a range of young people.