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2 Way Tenancy Solutions works with clients who are threatened with homelessness. We take a holistic approach to understand and address the root cause of their problems. Support is delivered through our financial capability programme which aims to equip beneficiaries with life skills needed to sustain and maintain their home. Our Reconnecting Communities Programme is aimed at people who are threatened with homelessness, suffer from mental health and have a substance misuse problem and a history of offending or are at risk of re-offending. Support is delivered to reduce the risk of violent offending and understand the root cause of the offending.

3SC manages contracts on behalf of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. The delivery of public services is a difficult and competitive marketplace, dominated by large commercial organisations that can lack the person-centred and inclusive approach to public services that the VCSE sector excels at delivering. 3SC gives these organisations a chance to compete for, and ultimately deliver, such contracts. We have built supply chains and worked with more than 550 different delivery organisations across 16 programmes in the welfare to work/employment, young people, criminal justice, and disabilities’ arenas. 3SC has supported and enabled the VCSE sector to access more than £62 million since its inception through our directly delivered contracts and Transforming Rehabilitation activities. We believe that the needs of people using public services, especially those who are hardest to reach, are best met by experienced, local, passionate and mission-driven organisations.

Homelessness and all associated fields (drugs, alcohol, mental ill-health, crime). We have services that relate to every point on the homelessness pathway, from rough-sleeping and begging to move-on and independence up-skilling.

A Way Out is an organisation of excellence, tackling and preventing exploitation of vulnerability of women and young people.

We are an outreach and prevention charity which aims to engage, empower and equip vulnerable and excluded women, families and young people to live lives free from harm, abuse and exploitation and to reduce life limiting choices and behaviour.

Our service users include women and young people with substance misuse problems, involved in prostitution, homeless or living on the streets, often engaged in offending or victims of abuse.

A Way Out is based in Stockton on Tees at a support centre called The Gate. This centre provides the base for many of our projects, offering a safe and secure place for women to come and receive support and get involved in a whole range of activities.

Access2Advice is a growing CIC, experienced in offering training and support to those in custody & on probation. This training is augmented by offering opportunities to volunteer, which can then assist in finding employment.

The aim is to reduce reoffending in prisoners within by addressing the key barriers to rehabilitation, such as improvement of self-confidence and motivation, improving transferable skills and employability, and by working with local businesses and the community to reduce stigma and discrimination. This is achieved through the 'breaking the cycle of re-offending' rehabilitation programme of training and support.

Current partners are APM, HMPPS.

We are a national training provider delivering justice services, IAG, apprenticeships, adult education, employability programmes, skills and careers development with over 15 years’ experience.

We provide a range of end to end and wrap around support services in partnership with His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service. We deliver Information, Advice & Guidance within HMP Establishments to support service users with careers advice, cv writing, job searching, disclosure, qualifications, training and much more.

We are committed to improving the lives of individuals that have offended by supporting rehabilitation through:
Understanding offending behaviour
Learning and development
Finding sustainable employment
Developing networks & restorative justice

Actes is a training and skills provider and embraces a “client-led” approach to service delivery in response to the worklessness agenda. It delivers a portfolio of services characterised by identifying the needs of the individual, genuine engagement, and developing innovative solutions to widespread problems.

We offer home-based addictions treatment - including detox services - throughout the whole of the United Kingdom. Our services are affordable, effective and confidential. Details are available on our website. We are based in the North East of England and work closely with Addictions North East, a provider of local recovery services.

Adfam works with and for families affected by drug and alcohol use, and is the leading national charity driving forward good practice in substance-related family work. Adfam offers publications, training and a website; it runs projects working with various isolated communities and has Family Support Workers delivering services in Peterborough prison.

The Advice Services Alliance is the umbrella body for the voluntary sector social welfare advice services across the UK. We work in partnership with our members and other close stakeholders to ensure everyone in all our communities have access to the best possible advice when they need it.

We are a charity supporting community organisations that give free advice to the general public. Our members provide access to advice for over two million people a year. We provide a range of services including insurance, second-tier support, training and vocational qualifications.

/AFFECT is a small UK-wide charity, based in the South of England. It runs a free, confidential and non- judgmental service which includes advice, information, a newsletter, telephone support and a self-help group called Group Gathering. We will maintain your confidence, keep your information secure, and we generally work on a first name only basis. We work with other charities, primarily the Prison Reform Trust and Action for Prisoners Families, but never share personal information without prior permission. We are a friendly group and most of us are unpaid volunteers.

Age UK North Tyneside is the go to partner of choice as the expert on later life. We deliver weekly social, information, advice and wellbeing group sessions for residents aged over 50 in HMP Northumberland, HMP Frankland and HMP Holme House. We also have representation at Local Delivery Board health and wellbeing providers meetings in these prisons.
Age UK North Tyneside also work in an advisory capacity to HMP’s Durham, Low Newton and Kirklevington Grange.
We also currently supply Wellbeing/activity/distraction packs to all prisons across the country.
Our work is recognised as good practise within IMB national reports, we have had representation on advisory panels as experts in the field of older people and working within a prison setting.

Alabaster Coaching is a new and bespoke developmental, trauma-informed and person centred coaching service for justice-involved mothers in the UK. The coaching model is designed from research and the voiced needs of mothers within the justice system who in many cases are still badly underrepresented and served, for more safe, compassionate, actively listening spaces for self reflection, expression, connection and exploration of their maternal identity, choices, emotions and needs. The trained female coach in collaboration with the mother, whether one-to-one or in small groups, supports and empowers each individual mother in their personal goal setting, whether they are actively parenting or not, in their journey toward greater self-understanding, goal attainment and personal development, which also encourages better reintegration back into their families and society and a more positive future. The service is also designed to support a wider set of holistic, desistance interventions.

AVP helps people to deal with conflict and violence, and build better relationships with others. In Britain, this is achieved through the provision of workshops in prisons and in the wider community, and a distance learning programme, ‘Facing Up to Conflict’, available free of charge to all prisoners. The organisation's priority groups are offenders and ex-offenders, people affected by domestic violence, and those whose mental health has been affected by violence.

We draw on the power of Anne Frank's life and diary to challenge prejudice and reduce hatred, encouraging people to embrace positive attitudes, responsibility and respect for others. The Anne Frank Prison Project was founded in 2002 in response to growing concern about racism and prejudice in prisons.

ARCH Teesside is a registered charity and specialist provider of sexual violence services offering support to males and females since 1997. We are an inclusive service, working to an empowerment model that strives to put clients at the core of what we do and we provide support whether the incident is current, recent or historic. With strong roots in the local community, we have evolved from a volunteer led, domestic abuse project to a leading provider of specialist sexual violence support on Teesside.
Our skilled workforce offers support to victims/survivors of sexual violence, as well as family members and other witnesses who may have been affected by these crimes. Based at the heart of the communities we support, our highly experienced team works using a non-judgemental and supportive approach, empowering people to take back control, and to cope and recover from their ordeal.
We provide a variety of services to help meet our client’s needs.

Arts Award offers qualifications to young people under 25 that develop their creativity, leadership and communication skills. Arts Award can be delivered by any service or setting offering arts, cultural or media activities, and can be embedded in a variety of youth-work focused projects or environments.

It provides a highly accessible framework for creative development, combining the appeal of the arts with the motivation of a qualification. Arts Award also provides an effective means to deliver key youth work, restorative justice and re-proration including supporting young people’s personal and social development, raising young people’s aspirations and ensuring all young people are able to participate and achieve in education or training.

We are a Community Interest Company bringing business and IT skills to those who need it most. Our professional training is provided alongside dedicated learner support services to provide employment opportunities within local communities.

Our support services include online coaching, dedicated mentors, career advice and guidance and signpost services to other local community organisations specialising in a variety of areas. By partnering with local businesses we are able to provide work experience, work placements, volunteering opportunities and internships for all learners that complete a course with us.

We carry out research and evaluation work in the areas of crime and disorder, prisons, anti-social behaviour and reducing reoffending. This work includes evaluations both formative and summative; research for feasibility purposes; investigations to identify the extent of, and reasons behind, crime and disorder; and evaluating the effectiveness of initiatives.

Barefoot Research and Evaluation also coordinates and administers the North East Offender Network (Neon) on behalf of Voluntary Organisations Network North East (VONNE).