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MhIST provides a specialised advocacy service focusing on the needs of people with mental health problems. Our advocates work in the community, in residential settings and in hospital. We have developed a service which provides for BME communities, people who live in care, nursing and residential settings, older people, LGBT communities and IMHA, as well as our mainstream work.
Secondly we provide self help support groups for people who experience - Bi polar affective disorder; Depression; Self Harm; OCD; Craft and Social and Substance abuse issues. Other group support is through Reiki Meditation; Drama Therapy and Mindfulness.
Our third offering is Talk therapy where we provide a variety of different talk therapies such as CBT, NLP, TA, Integrative approaches.
We provide Information to service users and carers via a range of linked web sites, through hard copy information leaflets and through 1-to-1 discussion.
We provide volunteering and back-to-work opportunities.

We are primarly an Advice and Advocacy organisation that provides specialist advice in the areas of Debt, welfare benefits, employment and housing. We also have specialist projects assisting individuals with learning difficulties, mental health issues, forces families and those with life limiting conditions. We in addition are part of partnership with all CAB's in North Yorkshire, Foundation Housing, Mencap and Local Advocacy services. We have provide regular advice services to the local prison and continue to have a strong relationship with support agencies in our area.

MAV was established in 1999 to support victims of gun and gang violence. It does this through a wide range of activities including; education; counselling; advice, information, support; partnership working; campaigning.

Since 2003 we have worked within prisons, enabling prisoners to hear from the victims of crime as part of their rehabilitation, and of the impact of murder on families and friends. We also provide a letter writing service, workshops and support for the prisons therapeutic community. We have delivered the Business Development Educational Training Programme since June 2012. Funded by the Allen Lane Foundation and Greater Manchester Probation the programme has supported over 45 people to date (offenders who are preparing to leave custody, and those who have already left), preparing them for work and to set up their own business.

The organisation is not for profit. It helps people with a lived experience of multiple barriers to widen their participation and achievements in higher aspirational learning leading to a better quality lifestyle, family and relationship improvements and a lowering of risk behaviours. The organisation provides expert resilience proficiency and specialised peer mentoring as well as volunteer training. We provide a unique level 3 lived experience service user qualification for working with peers who experience multiple barriers to progressing such as with addictions and mental health or neuro diverse conditions. All of the work described herein is drawn from a proof of concept of what works best with hard to help or engage people, groups, or communities in a participant centred way from a significant 12 year research and innovation programme in which offenders figured significantly (developed in 31 prisons for example). Our resilience proficiency programme has its roots in a higher mast

NAPAC (the National Association for People Abused in Childhood) NAPAC is the UK’s leading national charity offering support to adult survivors of all types of childhood abuse, including physical, sexual, emotional abuse and neglect. We also deliver training to professionals who work with adult survivors and sometimes run support groups.

Founded in 2006 by Pallant House Gallery (and still based at the Gallery in Chichester), Outside In aims to provide opportunities for artists with a desire to create who see themselves as facing a barrier to the art world for reasons including health, disability or social circumstance. The goal of the project is to create a fairer art world which rejects traditional values and institutional judgements about whose work can and should be displayed. Since its inception, Outside In has engaged more than 5,000 artists traditionally excluded from the mainstream art world, 170,000 audience members and 80 partner organisations nationally. We have held over 30 exhibitions and currently support 2,000 artists. Additionally, Outside In is now able to offer an increasingly international platform for the artists it supports, having taken part in the 2014 Paris Outsider Art Fair, and being on the board of the European Outsider Art Association.

Our vision is Sustainable wellbeing for all;
-Sustainable meaning long lasting
-Wellbeing meaning a sense of purpose, optimism, hope, agency, and direction
-All meaning us, our community, the people we work with and beside, humankind, animals and nature
Our mission is to be a platform for connection, transformation and social change.
We provide mental health and other services to 8000 people a year through our portfolio of 100 projects and services across five Welsh Health Board areas and fourteen local authorities, circa £9m annual turnover. Projects and services are grouped below;
-Crisis prevention and home: homelessness/mental health, housing and support
-Meaningful and purposeful life: employment, volunteering, training, skills development, community development, peer support, young people’s work, substance use
-Therapies, wellbeing centres, learning: counselling, workplace wellbeing, professional training and development

Prisoner Support services Highlight welfare and crime entanglements by recognising individual's needs, situations and goals. Through this recognition people can behave responsibly and contribute to society.
Removing barriers and limitations will provide adequate support, enable people to mobilise their ideas, goals and move towards aspirational living. This will allow social change.
PROVIDE: Individual support
SUPPORT: resolve challenges and barriers with problem solving
Strengthen: learn skills for self-help for future crisis

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.

Prodigal Bikes works with ex-offenders, children excluded from mainstream schools and the long-term unemployed. We overhaul and upgrade mountain bikes together. We provide workshop facilities, bikes and training to allow the people we work with to learn basic Engineering skills, with a view to them pursuing further training and gaining employment in this sector.
Most of overhauled bikes are then shipped to remote pats of Africa where they are given primarily to schools to allow children there to get to school more easily, giving them a better start in life. Bikes too complex for rural Africa are given to refugees here in Somerset.
We believe the sense of achievement in making a large difference to the lives of some very poor people in Africa will make a huge difference to the people we work with, helping them to beat the cycle of reoffending, and find better more sustainable lives for themselves.

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.

RECOOP promotes the care, resettlement and rehabilitation of older offenders and ex-offenders, in particular but not exclusively through the provision of support, advocacy, mentoring and advice on finance, housing and health that will enable them to take control of their lives and remain free from offending and prevent them from becoming socially excluded. We offer consultancy, training and direct services aimed at supporting prisons, probation staff and other organisations, including third-sector organisations, to build the range, capacity and skills necessary to meet the needs of older offenders in custody and through the resettlement transition. A number of our services are available through the Prison Education Framework Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS). These include our day centre and buddy support management and training services, in-cell distraction packs and our older ‘Transition’ resettlement course.

Right Track work with the hardest to help learners. These learners may be long term unemployed, have long term criminal records or have issues with housing, drugs/alcohol or literacy and numeracy. We work with these learners from around age 14 right up until retirement. We offer practical, hands on personal development and employability training which is designed to properly prepare learners for employment or an apprenticeship in which they can succeed. All our courses and learning sessions are underpinned by nationally recognised qualifications to build the learners' confidence and self belief. We also offer occupationally specific courses such as Business Admin, Customer Service, CIS Card and self employment. Our most important work is teaching strategies that enable behavioural change. Where learners are ready and are motivated and eligible, we can also work with them through an apprenticeship.

The Safer Living Foundation (SLF) was founded in February 2014. It is a joint venture between HMP Whatton and senior academics from Nottingham Trent University. It is supported by the National Probation Service (East Midlands) and Nottinghamshire Police as well as many others. As a Charitable Incorporated Organisation that adopts a multi-agency approach with a strong research component, the SLF is focused on reducing sexual offending and re-offending through rehabilitative and preventative initiatives.

Our Charitable Objectives:
•To promote the protection of people from, and the prevention of, sexual crime.
•To promote the rehabilitation of persons who have committed or who are likely to commit sexual offences against others.

This innovative work has led to SLF being nominated for and winning many awards including, most recently: Charity of the Year at the Third Sector Awards 2019.

For more information about our work or how you could contribute, please see the details below.

Save the Family is a registered charity based in rural West Cheshire. We have been in existence for more than three decades and we provide a safe community environment combined with basic support to homeless and troubled families where safeguarding of both vulnerable children and adults is absolutely paramount.

The charity works with troubled families who have lost almost everything and are fighting that last battle – to keep their children from being taken into care.
Save the Family offer a last chance to these families by providing temporary
accommodation, along with basic support and access to training to help
them get back on their feet and move forward with confidence.
We are based on a purpose built, modern facility designed to accommodate families and individuals in a mixture of 26 cottages and apartments. We have a Children and Families’ Centre with a fully equipped sensory room, age specific play areas and a “mock home” where families can learn how to have fun together.

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.

Siarad Da is a non profit making organisation, founded by Dr April May Kitchener as a response to a demand for specialist training.
Siarad Da’s critical aim is to promote understanding and awareness of the hidden disability that many people live with, particularly those in our CJS or experiencing school and social exclusion. Receptive, expressive and pragmatic language disorders impact on all aspects of a person’s life, often presenting as challenging and inappropriate behaviour. We support:
– professionals to develop extra tools that will enable them to be more effective in their communication and management of clients
– individuals struggling to appropriately express their needs and to support them to better understand consequences and expectations
– families to better understand the difficulties of loved ones, providing help and guidance to put in place strategies to use in their homes to develop clear communication

Smart Works Charity dresses and trains unemployed women for success at their job interview. Every woman who comes to Smart Works receives a complete outfit of clothes and accessories (hers to keep) and one to one interview coaching. This works - in the last 12 months, 60% of the women we could contact went on to succeed at interview. Once a woman has a job, we also invite her back to give her a working wardrobe for her return to work.

All the clothes in our beautiful wardrobe are donated from individuals or retailers, and all our service is delivered by skilled volunteers who regularly give up their time to help style and coach our clients.

This year we will help over 3000 women from our 7 locations across the UK - North and West London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Reading and Newcastle. It is out mission to take this fantastic service to as many women as possible, whilst maintaining the impact and quality of our service.

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.