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Our purpose is to provide support and relief, including rehabilitation from the causes and effects of poverty, homelessness, illness and criminal behaviour for persons aged 16 and over in the county of Kent and surrounding area by providing or assisting in the provision of accommodation, education, training for employment, advice and counselling and other supportive facilities for such persons.
Our Vision
To build communities where homeless people have the opportunity and support to build successful lives.
Our Strategic Objectives
To be a trusted provider of high quality, tailored, localised support to help people move beyond homelessness by providing them with the opportunities, skills and resilience to become self-reliant and self-supporting in their lives.
Most of our clients present with complex needs and Pathways is committed to either resourcing, or sourcing different services and/or meaningful activities to help empower clients and meet the diverse level of need.

With a focus on reducing reoffending and child protection, Prison Family Support (PFS) works in HMP Lewes facilitating prisoners' involvement in child related proceedings such as Child In Need conferences and adoption support. Support with making Child arrangements order applications is also available. Additionally, PFS provides activity and craft packs to the prisoners who are in contact with their children to enhance communication and strengthen relationships while in custody. We are engaged in partnership with Sussex Prisoners' Families (SPF) who also work towards reducing the impact imprisonment has on families and children. PFS also works alongside the Family Service provider at HMP Lewes to provide strong and comprehensive support for families.

Rescue Restore Release is community interest company, working with young adults and their families who are at risk of offending and young adults who are currently in custody. Our aim is to reduce re-offending behavior, prevent criminal activities among young people by providing a holistic and supportive approach through working with specialist mentors. We aim to work with a focus on the positive integration of challenging young people from hard to reach communities.

We are a long-established charity, started 20 years ago. We principally work with young people to educate and inform them about the dangers of criminal behaviour and stage multi-agency crime and safety awareness days in secondary schools.
We also take offenders, released on licence to these days and have employed offenders and ex-offenders to deliver workshops in schools which has given them a purpose in life and assisted with their rehabilitation.

Unlock Drama (UD) has over eight years’ experience working across the criminal justice system, delivering in more than 30 prisons with groups including sex offenders, young offenders, women vulnerable prisoners and foreign nationals.

Prisons we work within include: HMPYOI Swinfen Hall, HMYOI Brinsford and HMP Send etc.

UD utilises creative methods, which offers a unique tool that encourages teamwork, confidence, communication skills, motivation, organisation, listening skills, leadership, resilience and more. UD deliver creative projects closely linked to rehabilitation and focuses on addressing dominant concerns within the prison estate such as Engagement in activities, Substance Misuse and Debt.

UD also delivers issue-based theatre within the community working with participants such as: recovering drug addicts, homeless, young people at risk of offending and ex-offenders.