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BRR runs a drop-in for refugees and asylum seekers offering advice, English classes, social networking and much else. BRR also runs public education and campaigning activities.

C2C is a Northamptonshire wide Christian charity which provides holistic, person centred support to offenders, helping them turn away from crime. Specialising in community work, we provide this service to people regardless of faith, or none, and regardless of their crimes, age, ethnic or cultural background, gender, sexuality or disability.

We have a number of projects providing specific services, with staff and volunteers working together in all projects including:

Dedicated Women's Centre in Northampton and a new "pop up" centre in Kettering
Community Support workers, engaging service user across the county for MHTR and RAR
Debt mentoring with CMA
ETE services
Wellbeing courses and services
C2C Grows - our allotment project
C2C Sews - our craft based sewing project
Walk & Talk
4 houses offering same sex accommodation
Language courses for ESOL

Working in a Garden Centre is a good place to learn about horticulture and retailing; about plants and people. For people who enjoy working outdoors, meeting people, variety, learning and keeping physically fit then this career could be ideal. Camden Garden Centre is a not-for-profit-taking commercial business which was established in 1983. We offer a number of “trainee” places to people who have had to face difficulties and disadvantage in life an opportunity to access the job market . In so doing we provide an opportunity to enter a career that is rewarding and interesting. Because of the special commitment of the Centre people find us friendly, encouraging and supportive.

Career Connect is a charity whose core business is the provision of all-age careers information, advice, guidance and support. We enable people to make realistic choices, based on sound information, to help them achieve their potential in learning, training and employment. Established in 2001, we deliver services across NW England providing: The National Careers Service across NW NOMS CFO Evolution contract for NW of England through our wholly owned subsidiary Achieve. We deliver a programme that prepares and supports offenders into employment with a 32% sustained outcome rate. Careers information, advice and guidance services for young people (formerly badged as Connexions) across Greater Merseyside and Salford. Unlocking Potential social impact bond funded programme to support 4200 young people with behavioural, moderate mental health and wellbeing issues prepare for and enter the world of work. We also have staff embedded in Trouble Families teams and an adviser in Hindley YOI.

Career Matters (CM) is a social enterprise, providing career services and developing the future workforce through face-to-face and digital solutions. Enabling social mobility is the foundation for every partnership solution that Career Matters supports across education, health, social care and industry sectors.
As a social enterprise, we have a particular focus on lived experience communities, including children who are in local authority care, young people and adults who have left care and
individuals who have been involved in the criminal justice system. Both of these communities face the cliff edge of care and we seek to create a support system to connect them into futures with hope and opportunity.
Career Matters exists to support those most removed from traditional pathways into education, employment and training to find inspirational and fulfilling career pathways.

Since CFPL (formerly CFEO) founded in 2004, men and women have been supported through mentoring to move forward with their lives after release from prison. In 2020 a process of reimagining began - reimagining the way we support prison leavers, reimagining church communities, reimagining the transformation of society. We asked ourselves the question:
What we can offer? The answer is simply: Jesus. It's all about Him.
We are all made in the image of God. Through the Bridge Programme, we aim to encourage and empower men and women to grow in their faith and character, and connect them with loving church communities.

Anchor House has 119 rooms with ensuite and e-learning facilities and offers supported housing to homeless men and women aged 18 to 60 with a local connection to London Borough of Newham. We design, deliver and host an holistic range of life-skills and educational training courses for our resident population and the local community as well as innovative volunteering and placement opportunities using our TimeBank. We work closely with statutory agencies and other third sector organisations including the police (including BTP)and across the agencies represented on the London Borough of Newham Community Safety Partnership. We have a fruitful network of corporate partners in the City to underpin our work and are about to construct new facilities for community engagement, education and training, including 25 move-on flats to promote sustained independent living. For further information, please visit www.caritasanchorhouse.org.uk

Caritas Care's ACE (Assisted Community Engagement) Project provides an assisted seamless transition from custody to community and reduces the risk of reoffending by ensuring that essential needs are met without it being necessary to revert to a life of crime. Support is provided by volunteers and paid staff to address their needs, as identified by NOMS.

We work in both rural and urban areas across the county of Hertfordshire. We provide infrastructure support to all communities plus host diverse Networks: Rural Issues, Village Halls X 4, and Community Energy. We deliver the Play Area Scheme in HMP The Mount; Community Garden St Albans. We also provide training to enable people to enter the labour market. We provide consultancy services: Health & Safety; Risk Assessments, Finance; Business advice - sustainability and workforce development.

Help finding employment & training
Supported volunteering
Life skills training and accredited learning
Mentoring & Befriending
Advice (welfare rights, housing, debt, employment etc)
Information, advice & guidance

Certitude runs Beyond Prison, a Prison Mentoring & Resettlement service which provides a range of support; this includes Peer Mentoring coaching, goal setting, intensive support for Mentors in supporting other offenders in custody, volunteering, Mental Health workshops, in-Prison Mental Health & Mentoring Education and support, BAME work. We hope to resume our formerly successful resettlement and through the gate aspect of our service in 2015. Improving the skills and confidence for the offenders that participate in our programme so they can build a future 'Beyond Prison'. The aim of Beyond Prison is to improve well-being by adopting a holistic and person centred approach to Peer Mentoring and reduce the likelihood of re-offending for those being released from Prison.

Certitude also works in partnership with BEH Mental Health Trust, providing a forensic Employment,Training & Education Service. We take referrals from the forensic teams in North London.

Change for Good is a resettlement charity based in London. We currently have mentoring programmes based in HMP Wandsworth, HMP Wormwood Scrubs, HMP Brixton and HMP Ford that match guys with a trained volunteer who gets to know them in prison, meets them at the gate and supports them as they resettle back into society.

In the community we have our Next Chapter project, which is a group that meets weekly. It is for men who want to stay out of prison and keep out. The group is run by the men themselves who become positive influences on each other provide mutual support. There is a monthly activity such as a visit to a museum, or a boat trip. The men take it in turns to cook healthy meals and the venue is located in central London.

The group aims to reduce isolation and to be a strong community for the men to belong to. The group is dynamic and the agenda is set by the men themselves. The only criteria is that you have spent time in custody and are serious about wanting change.

Chaos Theory is a violence prevention charity (1141485) founded in April 2010 . The Violence Interruption Project (VIP) is modelled on a highly acclaimed violence prevention programme called Cure Violence Chicago. Concentrating on communities most severely affected by gun and knife violence, our programme uses ‘Violence Interrupters’ (VIs) to identify potentially violent episodes. We target high-risk individuals (those known to be perpetrators and or victims of violence crime) and assist them in finding alternate ways of settling disputes without resorting to violence. Our outreach service works with disadvantaged people in the community/custody to support them in their efforts to live independently and successfully. We visit, befriend, advise and guide the young people through difficult stages in their life encouraging them to develop a range of strategies to create change and achieve positive outcomes without offending or resulting to violence.

Chrysalis was formed originally in 2003 to provide Specialist Structured Support, Detoxification, Harm Reduction & Treatment Services as well as Relapse Management Services that had been specifically designed to address Dependency, Associative Mental Health Issues and to attend to the Resultant Chaotic & Repeat Homelessness experienced by sufferers as a result. All services are delivered within our Good Quality Community Based Supported Accommodation Projects. Since opening our services have grown, evolved, changed and adapted to meet the challenges unique to our sector and to respond and adapt more effectively to the needs of our service users.
Chrysalis now offers a number of Specialist Support Programmes delivered within a framework of Good Quality Supported Accommodation.
Chrysalis is a Non-Profit Private Registered Provider of Social Housing Registered Number 4751 and a member of the Housing Ombudsman and the National Housing Federation.

We give free housing advice in person or over the phone, and can act on your behalf on housing issues such as deposit guarantee and tenancy support and retention.

Cheshire West Citizens Advice is the largest independent advice service in Cheshire and one of the largest Third Sector advice agencies in the North West. It is the second busiest CAB in the North West and the seventh busiest in England and Wales.
Cheshire West Citizens Advice provides free, independent, impartial, confidential advice and is committed to promoting equality and the redress of inequality. On average we deal with over 14,000 unique enquiries/issues annually including: debt, finance, fuel poverty, income maximisation, housing, homelessness, employment, consumer, legal, family law, relationships, immigration and welfare benefits.

Since 2015 we having been working within Nottinghamshire with adults aged 18 and upwards, but specialise with those over 25 who have been referred to us via the prison, probation services, other charities, councils and those supporting similar groups of people as ourselves. Many have fairly complex needs both physically and mentally and working to overcome their addictions to various substances both legal and illegal.

We are sympathetic to the needs of veterans and where we are able to, we will accommodate and support them.

Our services are open to all adults and where it is safe and appropriate to do so we will mix our houses with people of different gender.

We are one of the few providers who accommodate and support those who have committed sexual offences and those who have served long prison sentences and are on life licences.

We are a small but experienced team with staff who have worked as probation officers, social workers, residential settings and housing officers.

CLI works to support offenders and those in recovery from substance misuse to rebuild their lives and re-integrate into the community. Our volunteer mentors provide support with practical issues as well as motivating our service users to overcome the obstacles they face and look to a brighter future.

We aim to reduce reoffending through education. We deliver Middlesex University-accredited basic counselling skills courses and interpersonal communication skills courses to inmates and ex-offenders, as a first step towards rehabilitation and to reintroduce inmates to mainstream learning. We also run partners' sessions for inmates about to be released. Our community courses (Person to Person, learning to get on with the people you live and work with) are for those at risk of offending as well as ex-offenders.

Create makes society fairer by connecting the most disadvantaged people to the power of the creative arts.
We know unleashing creativity ignites imaginations, develops confidence and builds relationships. Like setting off a firework, our professional artists light the touch paper and our participants discover new found self-belief and a desire to try more, do more and be more.
We’re a national charity that champions local priorities by collaborating with our partners to tailor every project to each individual’s needs.
We know that music can help ease the anguish of a parent with a terminally ill child, that drama can build an isolated young carer’s self-esteem and that storytelling can strengthen the bond between a young offender and the loved ones waiting for them at home.
One spark of creative energy opens up a world of positive opportunities. Create lights that spark.