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CatZero is youth development charity supporting individuals across on their journey into employment, education and training. We specifically work with disengaged and marginalised individuals who struggle to access mainstream support. Our aim is to improve a young person’s prospects by changing their outlook on life.

We want young people to achieve their goals of moving into employment, education or training and at the same time to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. Our efforts are firmly focused on enabling every participant to address the key factors that are known to lead to successful outcomes:
Overcoming Barriers: such as risky behaviours and family issues
Developing emotional capabilities: self-esteem, determination & resilience
Changing attitudes: aspiration for work or education
Building employability skills: teamwork, communication & leadership
Earning qualifications & training: achieving qualification

Children Heard and Seen is the only charity in the country with a specific focus on supporting children and young people with a parent in prison in their own communities, the people who care for them and reducing intergenerational crime . Interventions are delivered in the children's homes , schools, communities and online. Our offer includes specialist 121 support, group work, 121 mentoring outdoor activities and a yearly residential.

Since 1885, Forces Employment Charity's aim has been to help those leaving and those who have left the Armed Forces to find and to remain in employment throughout their working lives. We aim to make the client 'Job Ready' by signposting them to bespoke support required using our Project Nova network of support and tracking this via our Nova Support team prior to finding them the right employment choice.
Project Nova is an early intervention scheme working in conjunction mainly with the Police and NHS dealing with Ex Military personnel who have been arrested or are on the periphery of doing so. Project Nova works with many partner organisations including HMPPS & CRCs and local authorities along with numerous military charities.

Humbercare was established to work with the Humberside Probation Trust. We work to: educate, rehabilitate and promote the mental and moral improvement of offenders, or any other persons in need and the rehabilitation of persons discharged from penal institutions. Humbercare received charitable status during 1989 and became a company limited by guarantee in October of that year. Humbercare came from a desire to be able to offer additional help and assistance to offenders and those at risk to reduce the risk of re-offending through local projects.

Humbercare is managed by a Chief Executive Officer and a voluntary Management Committee. Humbercare is an enabling organisation dedicated to providing quality and innovative services to adults and young people. It is Humbercare's belief that all people should have the opportunity to realise their full potential, improve skills, optimise their life chances and become responsible members of the community.

The Cascade Foundation runs an innovative project in Doncaster Prison - a new approach to help disengaged prisoners with learning difficulties. Using multi-sensory techniques, we re-engage them and teach them to read and write, then progress their literacy skills. We also deliver a unique programme of personal and social development. We enhance offenders' confidence and self esteem, teach many life-skills and train prisoners to be mentors and Learning Coaches to peer-mentor and support each other.

We will open our first Transition Centre in 2014 to accommodate, support, teach and train ex-offenders and those at risk of offending, helping them to find work and mentoring them in the community, linking with families.

Our CEO and founder has a strong track record. Her previous project in another prison decimated the re-offending rate and reduced that prison's assault rates to a fifth. Our goal is to greatly reduce re-offending rates in Doncaster and transform prisoners' lives.

Unlock Drama (UD) has over eight years’ experience working across the criminal justice system, delivering in more than 30 prisons with groups including sex offenders, young offenders, women vulnerable prisoners and foreign nationals.

Prisons we work within include: HMPYOI Swinfen Hall, HMYOI Brinsford and HMP Send etc.

UD utilises creative methods, which offers a unique tool that encourages teamwork, confidence, communication skills, motivation, organisation, listening skills, leadership, resilience and more. UD deliver creative projects closely linked to rehabilitation and focuses on addressing dominant concerns within the prison estate such as Engagement in activities, Substance Misuse and Debt.

UD also delivers issue-based theatre within the community working with participants such as: recovering drug addicts, homeless, young people at risk of offending and ex-offenders.