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Exeter Community Initiatives (ECI) is a local charity that was started in 1993. The initial aim was to help local people facing poverty and homelessness, through projects such as St. Petrock’s. Since then our work has expanded to include Children’s Centres; projects that help the unemployed back to work; schemes to promote community cohesion and a mentoring service to support independent living. We work with Police, Health and Social Services to identify and support some of the most vulnerable families in the city.

We provide:
Family Support and group activities for any family in central Exeter with children under 5.
Adult mentoring through our Transitions project. We train and match volunteers to help adults make a transition into independent living.
1:1 support to families with children of any age who are struggling to cope with parenting or emotional and practical issues.
Employability and life skills for excluded young people.

Extern works with children, adults, and communities affected by social exclusion through programmes delivered locally and directly to clients. Extern offers a comprehensive service for adult offenders and provides in-house independent life skills, personal developments for residents, monitoring and support.
Through 30 years of enterprise, innovation and experience we have developed services that help ensure that families and children stay together, people have somewhere to live, offending is reduced and that we can all live in a safe, fair and inclusive society. We work with people because the risk is worth taking and because we believe that everyone can make a positive contribution to society.
Extern delivers: Outreach and accommodation for people who homeless; Resettling, monitoring and supervision of people who have offended;Early intervention and prevention work with children, young people and their families Learning and skills for those who are homeless and who are excluded.

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.

Family Action is a charity committed to building stronger families and brighter lives. We help individuals and communities address the challenges they face through practical, emotional and financial support. We support over 60,000 families and hundreds of thousands of children across the country each year through a wide range of national programmes and local services. Our work includes help for parents-to-be, parenting and relationship support, the provision of many nurseries and Children’s Centres in local communities, intensive family support, emotional health and wellbeing services, counselling, mediation and therapies, a range of mental health services including supported housing, wellbeing support in schools and GP surgeries, financial grants programmes and a range of training and consultancy services. We deliver support to women in the Mother and Baby Unit and pregnant women in HMP Styal.

Fearless Youth Association (FYA) support young people through active engagement, supporting them to refrain from youth and gang violence, tackling knife crime while supporting them to become active, responsible, confident and mindful citizens. FYA offers young people who are not in education, employment or training the opportunity to feel a sense of belonging, come together, learn from other young people, and build confidence and skills that can keep them away from violence on the streets.

Our core work is in:
*Knife crime training
*Digital media and IT skills training - including music, graphic design, broadcasting, IT skills etc
*Mental health and wellbeing projects including
*Training and employment in Building and construction, Business Admin, Hospitality, Retail, Healthcare
*Farm and Outdoor programmes

The Feltham Community Chaplaincy Trust is a multi-faith mentoring project providing support and advocacy to young men leaving Feltham. Now in their tenth year Feltham Community Chaplaincy Trust match trained volunteer mentors based locally to their young mentees provide support both inside and outside of prison. The project has achieved Approved Provider status from the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation.

Finchale Training College is a unique specialist provider of vocational training programmes for unemployed disabled adults. Based in Durham for 60 years, it trains 200 students for work ranging from accountancy to woodcrafts. 75% of its students are local, 25% are national. Courses are funded by the Department for Work & Pensions.

Provide support to homeless people to move them forward in their lives and address the underlying issues which have resulted in homelessness or threat of eviction. Providing:
Drop-in advice & support service inc access to telephones/emails/post help to source accommodation.
Key Point of Access Service - full assessment and access to supported accommodation providers and floating support providers services.
Pre-employment support and services;
Youth Homeless Prevention service
Multiple Complex Needs Service using personalisation budget
Training and Activities workshops
Benefit and Money Matters
Volunteering opportunities within social enterprise - Bike Stop Darlington (recycling bicycles and repairs)

The Flintshire Neighbourhood Watch Association works to build a safe, secure environment that embraces diversity, race and faith and spans generations. We support vulnerable residents and neighbourhoods, and respond to people's concerns, enabling them to be, and feel, safe, secure and respected.

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.

We provide housing support and complementary services to adult and young offenders, having developed specialist support services for MAPPA offenders, domestic violence perpetrators, PPOs, etc. to reduce reoffending. We provide peer mentors to work with offenders, and aim to provide employment opportunities for our customers within our services.

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.

Genesis is a leading UK housing association and provider of care and support services. With 40 years experience our care and support services reach vulnerable people in London, East Anglia and South East enabling full and independent lives. Services include:Integrated Offender Management Services (helping offenders reintegrate into communities),24 hour emergency on call service provision for vulnerable customers, Services for Learning Disability, Mental Health and Homelessness. We run a successful Supporting Treatment and Accommodation and Recovery (STARs) project in Suffolk, providing good quality flats for vulnerable single people who are homeless,unsuitably housed or being released from prison. Housing advice & advocacy runs in conjunction with an intensive support recovery programme which is centred around tailored individual recovery plans. We have indepth knowledge of the accommodation options available throughout the county and understand the barriers facing clients.

We offer emotional, psychological and practical support to women and girls suffering severe and debilitating symptoms of hormonal conditions, whether or not diagnosed, and their families and friends. We would also like to raise awareness of how hormonal conditions may mimic mental health conditions (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, depression) and how they can dictate behaviour and diminish quality of life, by giving talks to the wider public as well as agencies women and girls may come into contact with, such as GP's, mental health, police, probation and courts and offering support to these agencies as they have little time and resources to devote to alleviating the distress women and girls experience. Research shows that more than 50% of female crime from shoplifting to baby battering takes place during the PMS phase. We aim to screen women for hormonal conditions and teach them to self regulate emotions and behaviour thus reducing crime.

GIPSIL primarily works with vulnerable young people (16-24) providing housing-related support, welfare advice and support to access and sustain employment, education and training. We are commissioned by Leeds City Council to house and support 225 care leavers, young offenders, young parents and those who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness.

Our services

Flagship: Housing-related support service (accommodation-based and floating support) to 157 young people in East Leeds. We are the Lead Agency in a consortium delivering services city-wide to 405 young people.

Leaving Care Team: city-wide service to 68 Care Leavers.

GIPSIL owns, leases or manages 70 properties.

Welfare rights and housing advice services (Advice Quality Marked).

Domestic Violence Peer Support Groups.

Elevate – a social enterprise delivering our maintenance, Empty Homes & Decent Homes programmes.

Both GIPSIL & Elevate offer volunteering,work placement,trainee and apprenticeship opportunities

Give a Book is a charity that promotes books and the pleasure of reading in the hardest places. Prison Reading Groups (PRG) is part of Give a Book. Our main areas of work are in prisons and custody suites throughout the UK. We provide creative and practical ways of leading to reading. We support family reading, reading groups, and other reading initiatives in the criminal justice sector.

Glasshouse leverages theatre for social change within the Criminal Justice System. By uniting diverse communities, we use the power of creativity to conduct impactful workshops, produce thought provoking theatre and foster dialogue to reshape perceptions of prison and those affected.

Our vision is to create trauma-informed dialogue about systemic injustice, driving social change through theatre. Glasshouse encourages active participation in criminal
justice reform by holistically engaging all impacted individuals, spanning education, the prison system and the private sector. By challenging individual and societal mindsets, attitudes and misconceptions, Glasshouse hopes to influence radical reform and abolition at policy level.

As an organisation we centre the voices of those with direct lived experience of prison, either through incarceration or frontline work. Founded by ex-Prison Officers, Glasshouse champions the stories often ignored and suppressed, from within the prison walls.

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.

Good Vibrations runs gamelan (Indonesian bronze percussion) courses, in prisons and secure hospitals and with offenders and ex-offenders in the community, helping people develop crucial life- and work-skills such as communication, teamworking, creative thinking and concentration. Participants are then also more motivated to engage in other constructive activities.