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Communicate is a Community Interest Company based in the North West of England providing high quality innovative Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) services.
Formed in 2011, we are committed to enabling effective speech, language and communication in order to maximise life chances.

Cruse Bereavement Support aims to promote the well-being of bereaved people and to enable anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people. The charity provides support and offers information, advice, education and training services. Also, go to www.rd4u.org.uk, which is a website designed for young people by bereaved young people.

This organisation provides literacy and numeracy support, delivering a dyslexia programme and assessment tests.

East West Organization offers a unique choice of holistic interventions for the prevention, treatment and recovery from addictions and attachments. The charity also provide a range of educational and preventative services for children and adults including mindfulness meditation to deal with relapsing conditions, such as stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, pain and depression which can often lead to alcohol, illicit drug and medication dependency.

We offer a range of services and opportunities that provides inspiration and guidance:
• We encourage education, so we will show young people how to get into college, improve their skills and get qualifications. We help young people develop personally and socially - giving them the strength to reject violence and a life of crime.
• We improve relationships between fathers and sons, motivating them to realise their potential, raise their aspirations and build themselves a brighter future.
• We establish partnerships with parents, schools, community groups and local authorities. That way we can step in and help those young men at greatest risk of being sucked into gangs. We show them where they can get help and stay out of trouble.
For more information or to discuss our Services please Contact us.

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.

Our main aim is to assist with the effective resettlement of prisoners. We find ways to promote prisoners' family ties and enhance the visiting experience of their children. We raise funds to support the prison in ways not paid for by normal public funding.

Friends of the Family works with families and children who are overwhelmed by family life. We offer friendly support and guidance to help them overcome the challenges they face.

We are a small independent charity, established over 20 years ago. We work in Winchester and its surrounding villages. Our aim is to improve the life chances of local children and families, who are struggling and unable to cope with day-to-day family life.

Our purpose is to offer a safe and nurturing environment where children and their families can learn to help themselves and focus on building a healthy family life for the future.

We work with vulnerable families by offering group work with families who have a child aged up to four, and befriending at home with families who have a child aged between 5 and 13.

Gangsline is a non-profit organisation established in 2007 to provide help and support to young men and women involved in gang culture. We work with individuals from the deprived parts of our communities and with deeply entrenched social, educational, spiritual and family issues. Central to our ethos and success is a proactive, spiritual and non-enforcement led approach to gangs, and the gang violence embedded our local communities.

Today Gangsline delivers its unique services by providing a proactive and reactive approach that offers support and exit strategies to young men and women involved in gangs, and an effective prevention service to young people on the peripheries of gang activity. Our specialist outreach response team – all of whom are ex-gang members themselves – are uniquely placed to access and work alongside even the most high risk gang leaders and members.

Geese Theatre Company is a team of professional theatre practitioners who present interactive drama and facilitate workshops, staff training and consultation in prisons, secure mental health settings, young offender institutions, and in the community with probation services, youth offending teams and related agencies. A registered charity based in Birmingham, Geese works throughout the UK and overseas and has gained an international reputation for innovative work with vulnerable and socially excluded groups, becoming widely acknowledged as one of the key organisations championing the role of arts in the criminal justice system and wider social welfare arena. Our work provides solutions to a range of criminogenic issues, primarily focussing on attitudes, thinking and behaviour and addressing themes such as domestic abuse, sexual offending, violence, resettlement, substance misuse and offending, self-efficacy, and employability.

Good News Family Care Homes Ltd is a Christian-based organisation offering support through a wide range of initiatives and training projects to strengthen relationships, motivate and empower for real and lasting change, and bring hope. Our aim is to break the cycle of dysfunction for the next generation.We provide supported housing for women and children, domestic abuse refuge, 'freedom2live' a residential structured recovery programme for women,farm-based skills development training for residents, men and women on probabtion orders and from mental health services.

GIFT was set up to support young people/young offenders and families into education, employment and training, through holistic intervention and prevention work, improving people's life chances. We also aim to make strategic partnerships with other charitable and statutory organisations in order to make best use of resources and deliver the most effective service.

Our main activities consist of mentoring, mediation, counselling and a supplementary education service. The majority of our work is with young people/young offenders from disadvantaged backgrounds. We aim to provide a culturally sensitive service to the local community, primarily made up of people from Black and Ethnic minority backgrounds with low educational achievement and high unemployment

The world for children, young people, and adults is changing at a rate that presents them with significant challenges, pressures, and barriers. Now, more than ever, they need consistent guidance and expectations, positive role models, and activities that keep them occupied and engaged.

Gro-Mentoring has been delivering award-winning mentoring services since 2010, transforming the lives of children and young people, and adults in the Midlands. We work with primary schools, secondary schools, and pupil referral units, prisons and probation to support all children and young people and adults, including those at risk of educational exclusion or anti-social and/or criminal behaviour in adolescence and early adult life.

Everything we do is done with passion, care, and quality. We look forward to showing you the difference our mentors make.

Groundwork Greater Manchester helps people and organisations make changes in order to create better neighbourhoods, to build skills and job prospects, and to live and work in a greener way. We’re a registered charity with over 30 years of experience working with partners to deliver successful projects in the local area.

We know that the important issues are all connected – our work covers 'environmental issues’, 'regeneration', ‘youth and community work’, ‘business support’, 'employment' and ‘training’. Our joined up approach means we create projects and services that benefit people, the environment and the wider society.

Every year Groundwork delivers over £1 million worth of accredited training. If you're looking to get back into work, want to broaden your options, or just try something new, get in touch!

Groundwork works across Leeds, Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees to help people and organisations make changes in order to create better neighbourhoods, to build skills and job prospects, and to live and work in a greener way.

Heeley City Farm, Sheffield, established 1981, is an inner-city farm providing a range of integrated services and activities for the local and city-wide community. Services include employment, training, education, older peoples' activities, health and welfare, local food growing, youth work, a day care for adults with learning difficulties and mental health problems, fuel poverty and affordable warmth advice.

Our role is to respond to visitors and families with information support and creating a relaxing atmosphere in a stressful situation. We work closely with children of offenders and help to give an insight into the family life while the prisoner is in the establishment.

Housing for Women is a housing association and charity providing housing and support services for women and their families in London.

Our ReConnect project provides supported accommodation for women leaving prison dealing with substance misuse and with complex needs. Combining housing and person-centered support we help women to bring about positive changes in their lives, reduce substance misuse, improve their emotional well-being and prevent future re-offending.

Our ReUnite project works with mothers leaving prison who would otherwise be homeless. The project provides supported accommodation and holistic support to help reunite women released from prison with their children.

Our 'Castle Gate Gloucestershire' programme of criminal justice related services include: county-wide support for prisoners' families; parenting programmes for men (both in custody and the community); restorative family interventions; mentoring for young people, and; the provision of diversionary and support interventions for young people involved with gangs.

INQUEST provides a free advice service to people bereaved by a death in custody or detention or involving state failures. Casework also informs the organisation's research, parliamentary, campaigning and policy work.