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Respond operates Circles of Support and Accountability (COSAs) for people with learning disabilities who have displayed sexually harmful behaviour. The COSA aims to prevent sexual abuse by matching trained volunteers with the young person to reduce isolation and challenge risk factors.

Respond's COSA project works with adults and young people in London.

Restorative Gloucestershire (RG) is committed to promoting the use of restorative practice through facilitating RJ conferences, advising and supporting others to use and develop restorative skills.


Restorative Gloucestershire works with Restorative Solutions CIC to deliver joint project aims. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to participate in a restorative intervention, as needed, facilitated by a trained, skilled practitioner.

The Restorative Justice Council provides quality assurance and the national voice for the field of restorative practice

The RJC is the independent third sector membership body for the field of restorative practice. Our patron is HRH, the Princess Royal.

Our members are practitioners, training providers, organisations providing restorative practice across the country, and individual supporters. All RJC members receive monthly e-bulletins and quarterly newsletters, dedicated member-only resources and forums online, discounted entry to RJC events, and free telephone advice.

We provide quality assurance for the public through our work on best practice, standards and accreditation; our online national Trainers Register and Practitioner Register; and through our Practitioner and Trainer Codes of practice.

We are the national voice for restorative practice, advocating for the development of restorative practice with Government and providing information to the public.

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 Solutions is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) committed to enabling the use of innovative restorative approaches as a practical and cost-effective intervention for reducing harm or conflict.
We introduce restorative practices to organisations, volunteers and front line workers who are looking for a proven and worthwhile alternative to existing conventional approaches to reducing conflict, disputes, anti-social behaviour, bullying, crime and re-offending. We deliver bespoke, commissioned Restorative Justice services to organisations.

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.

Riding Lights Theatre Company is faith based organisation that creates performances and runs workshops in a wide variety of settings. We have created work for street performance and west end venues but are passionate about theatre which is transformative at the margins of society. Consequently we have done a lot of work in Prisons and YOIs over our 40 year history and are currently developing our range of applied theatre work with offenders.

RISE is a specialist provider of rehabilitation services to tackle complex behaviours such as offending, domestic violence, bullying and child maltreatment that can endanger families and communities. With foundations in London Probation Trust, the largest Probation Trust in the UK, we have a proven track record of providing offender rehabilitation services. We offer a broad range of accredited offender rehabilitation programmes, other bespoke interventions, and will provide consultancy and advise in terms of risk assessment in the area of Domestic Abuse.

The charity’s main aim is to bring about community transformation by creating strategic partnerships which open up opportunities for crime and disorder reduction and improved community cohesion. This partnership approach has seen crime and anti-social behaviour fall and fresh hope brought to some of the most deprived and challenging areas of the UK, urban and rural alike.
ROC brings together community groups, churches, the police, the fire service, local authorities and voluntary agencies to encourage them to work together in positive partnerships for practical ‘on the ground’ change.
ROC Restore is a form of restorative justice delivered by ROC and undertaken by volunteer community members. ROC Restore is delivered in partnership with a number of agencies and community groups. It's aim is to reduce conflict and re-offending and to make communities safer.

The RSPCA has an international reputation for its professional expertise in preventing animal cruelty, promoting human kindness and alleviating suffering. In 2013, the RSPCA prosecuted 1,371 adults under the Animal Welfare Act and 88 resulted in prison sentences and 220 in suspended sentences. The RSPCA is the largest private prosecutor after the CPS and has a 98% success rate. However, our mission is to prevent animal cruelty and change human attitudes and behaviour and we recognise the importance of rehabilitation and restorative or reparative approaches. Over the past four years, the charity has built up a widely respected programme of training and online resources. Working closely with the RSPCA’s inspectorate and prosecution services, the education team have developed an intervention programme for adults who have been convicted of animal cruelty offences which aims to address deficits in consequential thinking skills and empathy and to improve understanding of animal needs.

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

Sacro is a national organisation with over 40 years experience in delivering a range of housing support, criminal justice, youth justice and restorative justice services across Scotland. Sacro's mission is to be a community based organisation that will create safe and cohesive communities by reducing conflict and offending. Sacro's vision is for a safer Scotland, also to resolve conflict constructively and to deal effectively with offending and the consequences.

Safer Merthyr Tydfil is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. Registered in 1997, although it was established 2-years previous, 1995, under a Home Office Safer Cities Initiative. The organisation has a Wales-wide remit, currently providing services in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taff.

The aim of the organisation is to, in partnership with others, reduce crime, fear of crime and increase community confidence and cohesion.

The organisation does this through delivery of targeted programmes of work. Through these programmes, SMT works with a variety of key partner agencies from all sectors, in particular core statutory such as Local and National Govt, Police, Health etc.

We currently offer a number of programmes, supported by a variery of funders, in relation to key priorites such as domestic abuse, young people and ASB/offending behaviour, home security target hardening etc. Our range of programmes reach service users across the full age spectrum.

Safer Wales is an independent charity based in Cardiff. We work across Wales and manage a range of different projects which support some of the most vulnerable, and excluded in Welsh communities. We developed the Womens Turnaround service which worked with women who offend, or risk of offending. We manage the Streetlife project, which works with women who are exploited through streetbased prostitution. We provide an outreach team and a supported housing project. We developed the Womens Safety Unit which provides Independant Domestic Violence Advisor to work with high risk victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence. We developed and manange the first service for for male victims of domestic abuse in Wales, Dyn project. We have a human exploitation project which has developed a pathway, and information protocol for people who are trafficked.

We provide direct support services within the community for ex-offenders, older people and people in debt. We work to support ex-offenders in the resettlement process, which includes offering supported housing and help with personal and practical development, with the aim of reducing the risk of reoffending.

We have a referral process and accept referrals from various statutory providers, voluntary sector providers and in person. All new referrals complete a referral form and risk assessment before being offered accommodation.


All clients take part in a support planning process. Each client has a support worker and regular reviews of the support plan take place. We use the outcome star to work with clients to help them to identify the various actions needed to address their journey to independent living away from offending.

All clients are able to access our training, volunteer mentoring scheme, opportunities for volunteering and our debt advice service.

The IARS International Institute is a user-led charity with a mission to give everyone a chance to forge a safer, fairer and more inclusive society. IARS achieves its charitable aims by producing evidence-based solutions to current social problems, sharing best practice and by supporting young people and the community to shape decision making. IARS is an international expert in user-led research, evaluation, human rights and inclusion, citizenship, criminal justice and restorative justice. We deliver our charitable mission by:

- undertaking user-led research and advocacy;
- developing and delivering user-led training programmes; and
- assisting other organisations to develop robust theory of change models and evaluation frameworks to demonstrate their impact.

We deliver projects nationally and internationally throughout Europe across three main areas - justice, gender and equality, and youth.

SIFA Fireside is a dynamic Birmingham based charity which works to tackle homelessness and alcohol misuse. We also deliver restorative justice and assist ex-offenders and other marginalised groups to access employment, education and volunteering. We are based in Digbeth, and work with people aged 18 and over with no upper age limit. The Drop In is open Monday-Friday from 9am until 1pm. Breakfast is served from 9am-10am, and lunch is served from 12pm until 12.45pm. We run a shorter session on Saturday and Sunday from 10.30am-11.30am. No food is served at weekends but tea, coffee and biscuits are on offer. Restorative justice aims to repair the harm caused by offending. This service is open to anyone over 18, victim or offender. The only exclusions are serious offences (murder, sex crimes and domestic violence). The Changing Lives team work with ex-offenders, providing support to find work, training or volunteer placements. We also offer a job club and outreach support

St Johns is an independently managed male Approved Premises and Outreach project. We work with men who are in the main presenting as high and medium risk of harm , we accommodate men who are involved in the Criminal Justice System, and also operate a move on Outreach Service . We provide a safe , stable and structured environment and deliver a variety of activities and programmes . We have developed a number of specialist partnerships and work with multiple agencies to offer an individualistic service user led approach in order to work towards reducing re-offending.

Stepping Stones is a unique service in Luton for women offering support on a variety of issues such as drugs/alcohol, domestic abuse, mental health, problems related to offending or re-offending in a safe, warm and supportive environment. We also have an Ofsted Registered Childcare Service so children can be looked after in a safe environment whilst their mothers/carers access support. We work in Partnership with BeNCH CRC to divert women from custody, reduce women’s offending and divert women from the criminal justice system. We offer a huge variety of comprehensive services. We are a holistic womens service that understands and takes every aspect of women’s lives into account. We use gender-responsive guiding principles in creating an environment that reflects and understands the realities of the lives of women that addresses and responds to their strengths and challenges.

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