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Informal Learning is a Company limited by guarantee that aims to provide immediate and sustainable housing and support to the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless,through shared accommodation in the Wakefield and Leeds District . We also support individuals with benefits advice, budgeting, debt management, domestic and social skills, CVs, job search, employment and training and progression to independent living.

Working in partnership with the Probation service, police, prisons, mental health providers, drug and alcohol services, other homeless organisations, local councillors as well as community members.

Our Inside Out programme helps transform the lives of men & women who have been in prison, on probation, at risk of offending and/or coming out of addiction. Our passion is to support those with complex issues not to re-offend & to reintegrate them into their families & society. Our one-year Christian-based programme is built on three cornerstones – mentoring, building community & ongoing support. All are welcome to apply regardless of religious beliefs providing they wish to engage with us & want to turn their lives round. Mentoring is the most important part of our programme. We provide many opportunities for progression through life skills, education, qualifications, volunteer & employment placements & new interests and hobbies. We are encouraged that some of our participants have become drug-free, restored relationships with their families & are in employment. We work in partnership with a wide range of local organisations, churches, specialist agencies & the probation service.

We help individuals, organisations, agencies and employers in the statutory, private and voluntary sectors, to understand the extent and nature of discrimination and inequality experienced by individuals and groups in fields such as the criminal justice system, housing, employment, education, health and social care. The aim is to encourage them to implement policies and practices which will eliminate discrimination and promote equality of opportunity, and good relations, between all persons.

Junction 42 is an established charity providing education and enterprise, creative arts and Christian faith support to offenders both in custody and in the community. This support focuses on reducing social isolation, building community, addressing chaotic lifestyles and removing barriers to employment and family stability. We work with a large number of offenders, ex-offenders and other young people, (including dedicated women’s services) who face serious lifestyle stability issues and significant barriers to employability.

Justlife is a charity that specialises in supporting people living in temporary accommodation such as B&B’s, Hotels and Guesthouses which are generally not used by the council as emergency accommodation. We work with people in a person- centred and flexible way to ensure that their stay temporary accommodation is as short, safe and healthy as possible. This might mean helping people to sort out issues with their benefits, attend GP appointments or make housing referrals for longer term accommodation. Justlife works closely with the Manchester National Probation Service as part of the 'Targeted Referrals Project' working with high risk offenders placed in temporary accommodation. Justlife provides support during their stay in the temporary accommmodation and to move out into more suitable longer term housing, whilst working closely with offender managers and propery landlords. This approach has proved successful.

Challenge to Change (C2C), designed and developed by Kainos Community, is a 6 month CSAAP accredited programme currently delivered in 3 adult male prisons. The programme encourages and supports individuals in addressing their offending, associated distorted thinking and anti-social behaviour, promoting and facilitating the transformation to a more purposeful, pro-social life.

Independent research has evidenced C2C to be very effective (Ellis 2012): After 1 year, 84% of Kainos graduates had not reoffended and of those that did, the frequency of their offending had been reduced significantly compared to a matched comparison group.

Although developed and accredited as a custodial intervention, the programme principles and design are applicable to offenders and ex-offenders in different settings.

Kainos is now part of the Langley House Trust group, a long established provider of accommodation based services. This merger provides for a unique pathway from prison to community.

The Kaleidoscope Plus Group works to promote and support positive health and wellbeing and we are committed to making sure that the services and facilities we provide are of the highest possible quality and that they continue to develop to meet the needs of the communities we serve.

Reset is a Big Lottery funded support service that assigns volunteer mentors to work within Kent & Medway prisons or approved hostels: supporting ex-offenders who will be resettling within Kent & Medway.
Every individual's experience of release if unique and thus we aim to provide a service that reflects the challenges that they face during reintegration to the community.
We work in partnership with existing agencies to help offenders and ex-offenders become valued members of society. The initiative was developed in response to the challenges faced by many ex-offenders when they tried to begin a new life after release from prison and to the high level of interest from numerous community organisations in helping with resettlement.
Where we work: In prisons and probation hostels (before release), Through the gate (on release), Within the community (after release)

There are two different ways that you can refer, either through a self-referral or through a professional.

Please feel free to contact Stephen Wait on 07475521854 or email stephen.wait@kenwardtrust.org.uk for any more information or to ask any questions.

Founded in 2012, Key4Life is a dynamic, expanding charity which works on the front-line with young men (18 to 25 year-olds) in prison and those at risk of going to prison, helping them to find a new path and successfully reintegrate back into society through an innovative seven-step model. Key4Life empowers vulnerable young offenders, minimises barriers and creates opportunities to ensure successful rehabilitation and integration into society upon release. Key4Life's aims are to reduce youth re-offending rates and not only address symptoms but rather the root causes of re-offending.

Currently 74% of young offenders end up back in prison within 2 years of release (Ministry of Justice 2012). Participants who have been through the Key4Life programme are 4 times less likely to re-offend.

This year, Key4Life is running prison programmes for participants at HMP Thameside, HMP Forest Bank and HMP Fosse Way and preventative ‘At Risk’ programmes in London and Somerset.

Khulisa delivers unique and powerful behaviour-change intervention programmes addressing violence and the crime cycle. Khulisa starts the process of rehabilitation through the innovative use of therapeutic methods and creative, participant-led techniques. The language and theory of violence are used to draw a link between violence/abuse/conflict and offending behaviour, and develop the notion that no crime is victimless. Khulisa also runs Milestones, an innovative through-the-gate mentoring programme for young men leaving custody.

KIP Education's sessions in schools & youth settings develop the knowledge, understanding & skills young people need to manage their lives, now & in the future

LandWorks offers a full-time, comprehensive service with integrated support across a broad range of issues at one location. We replicate a real working environment where accomplishment and achievement is valued. LandWorks also offers a safe place to be vulnerable, a place to build trusting individual relationships, and above all, a chance to develop a non-criminal identity. Our excellent statistics speak for themselves but we view real success as former trainees getting married, starting a family, and generally leading settled, contributing lives in their communities.

Since 2013, LandWorks has supported over 100 people serving community sentences and on day release from prison. We are proud to have maintained an employment rate of over 90% for our graduates, and a reoffending rate of less than 6%. LandWorks now employs two of its own ‘graduates’.

Langley House Trust works with ex-offenders, and those at risk of offending, to establish positive foundations so that they can lead crime-free lives and become contributors to society. We have a 3% reconviction rate nationally. We achieve this through accommodation-based support, comprehensive rehabilitation and personal development programmes, education and vocational training, move-on support and in-prison visiting. We are a Christian charity, working with people of any faith or no faith.

Learn to Re-create is a start-up social enterprise that offers fashion and textile crafts training as part of a vocational support programme and employment to vulnerable or economically disadvantaged adults. In addition we offer a selection of textile craft and clothes re-styling workshops and deliver specialist services namely product design and production to businesses in the textile and fashion industry for commercial sale.

Leicestershire GATE is the only not for profit organisation working with the Traveller and Gypsy communities across Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland. We support the diverse needs of these, the most marginalised and invisible communities in Britain. We act as the crucial link between community members and essential services such as schools, health providers, Police, local authorities and housing. We are able to ensure that these services are 'Traveller ready' by providing in depth cultural awareness training whilst at the same time ensuring that community members have a detailed understanding of what to expect from these services. In doing so, we remove the multiple barriers that exist for Traveller and Gypsies, we take an equitable approach by recognising that as communities that have been ignored for generations, the idea that they can freely engage with these services is a barrier in itself We are community steered and as such, the work that we undertake is community instructed

This therapeutic community, established in 1971, provides residential rehabilitation from detox through to aftercare, with abstinence, peer support and self-help. Residents successfully complete our treatment intervention and recovery programme into full-time employment and move out into independent living with peers, no longer in treatment. We break the cycle of addiction, offending and dependency on welfare benefits.

Life Cycle Bike Back bike recycling project operates in both Bristol and Derby. Unwanted bikes are donated by members of the public and are taken to HMP Bristol & HMP Stocken where they are stripped down, cleaned and rebuilt by prisoners. Prisoners learn employability and mechanical skill. In Stocken they achieve a City & Guilds Level 2, In Bristol a City & Guilds Level 1. When bikes leave the prison workshops they are checked and made ready for sale by volunteers. We have some limited opportunities for people on licence and ex-offenders to volunteer for us. We are planning to increase these opportunities significantly. Refurbished bikes are sold to members of the public at pop-up sales. Both projects have bikes available at low cost through the Wheels to Work scheme.

LAT provides resettlement and rehabilitation support for individuals involved at all stages of the criminal justice system from the point of arrest; as well as for their families and dependants.

The charity delivers ETE, housing, family support and resettlement interventions both in prisons and in the community. Specific interventions are offered for women. LAT works with all offence types, and has particular specialism in resettlement of men convicted of sexual offences.

LAT delivers a number of national programmes including Liaison and Diversion and CFO3, as well as local innovations such as Young Oasis which helps children living with a parent or guardian with a drug or alcohol addiction. LAT also introduced the 'departure lounge' concept to prison, starting UK's first one at HMP Lincoln in 2015.

Volunteers are a key aspect of support, and individuals including peers, are recruited and trained for various volunteering and mentoring roles.

Upcycle believe everyone deserves a chance at a better future. We work to prevent people from being pulled into crime and help those already in the system find paths out. We run bike maintenance programmes for at-risk and marginalised youth in Bradford and in prisons and young offender institutions across the UK. Our trainees learn skills, gain valuable experience, and build the resilience and self-belief needed to succeed. Most refurbished bikes, often saved from landfills, are donated to those in need, both locally and globally. The remainder are sold in our Community Bike Shop in Shipley, providing affordable and good quality bikes to the local community and funding our work.

M.E.M Academy CIC employs sports as a valuable tool to promote inclusivity and equal access to physical activities, skills development, and career mentorship for at-risk and vulnerable children and young individuals aged 11 to 21. The primary aim of this initiative is to enhance their physical and mental well-being while concurrently reducing instances of anti-social behaviour and the risk of involvement in the criminal justice system. Furthermore, our services extend to aiding individuals identified as NEETs in acquiring accredited courses, securing work placements, and accessing employment opportunities.

Additionally, we offer tailored workshops within correctional facilities to support offenders aged 16 to 24 who are nearing their release and aspire to become fitness coaches after their release. Our support doesn't conclude at the prison walls; we continue to provide assistance to these individuals upon their release, guiding them in accessing accredited courses and employment.