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Surrey Community Action is a local infrastructure organisation, working both as a council for voluntary services and a rural communities council. We aim to provide a wide range of services to the voluntary, community and faith sectors, to help them grow and develop. We provide resources, training, funding and advocacy.

Switch Up provides life changing support to young people who have had Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma. We especially support young people from BAME communities, and those affected by crime and violence, and those who other agencies find hard to reach.

Our mentors and coaches, as well as founder and CEO Marcellus Baz, have lived experience of the issues we want to overcome. “Baz” was a gang member who turned his life around, being honoured with a British Empire Medal in 2016 by HRH The Queen and was named the Unsung Hero of the Year at the Sports Personality of the Year awards. Under Baz’s leadership, the organisation has achieved phenomenal outcomes resulting in him becoming an advisor for the Home Office and meeting the Home Secretary about the Switch Up model.

Thames Valley Partnership: "protecting victims, supporting offenders and their families". Thames Valley Partnership works in partnership with organisations operating within the Criminal Justice system and allied services to provide long-term solutions to the problems of crime and social exclusion. Our programmes include restorative justice, a range of support services for victims of crime, work in the area of domestic abuse, support for the families of offenders, early interventions to support young people, mentoring for offenders resettling back into the community.

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.

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.

Supporting those in the criminal justice system and their families, and preventing and diverting young people and adults at risk of entering the CJS. We provide advice, guidance, advocacy, mentoring and cognitive behavioural therapy. Our trauma-informed service addresses conflict, violence and the destructive coping strategies young people and adults employ to protect themselves from emotional, mental and physical pain. Way4ward provides specialist high intervention coach mentoring and inspirational workshops to improve mindfulness, distress tolerance, deescalating irrational emotions, overcoming barriers to healthy emotions, and coping with resistance and conflict.

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.

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.

Youth Action is an award-winning youth development agency providing a range of community-based services to meet the needs of its clients.
Having worked with a wide number of people over the past 10 years in a variety of mentoring roles, Youth Action now wishes to use its experience of working with the BAME sector and move into the offender rehabilitation arena. We are looking for organisations to partner with in this work.
We seek to influence policies to ensure that they are more youth friendly and therefore young people have better opportunities in life and have a greater voice in their community. We also passionately pursue the organising of bespoke opportunities to meet the varying needs of young people.