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Evolve Education is part of a social enterprise founded in 2003 with a mission of Wellbeing > Mindset > Performance. We support people in contact with the criminal justice system through the ENHANCE programme, an innovative neurocognitive development programme designed to improve prison safety, rehabilitation and long-term outcomes.

Rather than focusing solely on vocational skills, ENHANCE helps participants strengthen core cognitive abilities such as attention, memory, emotional regulation and impulse control, increasing their capacity to learn and engage with education, rehabilitation and resettlement opportunities. The programme is flexible and technology-enabled, making it accessible across a range of custodial settings, including for people on remand or serving short sentences.

We work closely with prisons to improve outcomes for both individuals and prison environments by reducing conflict, supporting positive behaviour and helping people build the foundations for lasting change.

We work with people with lived experience of the criminal justice system to help them create their own employment and peer support networks by developing their own co-operative enterprises.

Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau aims:

• To provide the advice people need for the problems they face

• To improve the policies and practises that affect people’s lives

Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.

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.

Expia Ltd is a charitable company limited by guarantee which aims to reduce re-offending by:

Providing employment and supporting the education and training of risk assessed prisoners at the jailhouse cafes and gardens.
Seeking links to next steps to external employment.
Marketing products and services produced by prison workshops.
Helping prisoners to make reparation for their crimes by volunteering and helping in the local community.

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.

Fair Shares runs Time Banks in Gloucestershire which focus on two way volunteering which is explained more fully below. We began our work with the prison estate with HMP Gloucester and this successful partnership continued for six years, until the prison closed in 2013. We are currently working with HMP Leyhill, HMP Erlestoke and HMP Eastwood Park and are developing work with HMP Dartmoor. Time Banking is a great way of engaging with all members of our communities and benefits on a number of social, health and economic levels. Our participants in the prisons are either involved in Times2, our Maths peer mentoring scheme or volunteer for other organisations and use time banking to add extra value to the work that they already undertake.
Time Banking is a system of two-way volunteering; for every hour of your time you put in, you earn an hour of help in return or you can decide to give those hours to help those in the community who need extra support via the goodwill pot.

FASO is a voluntary organisation dedicated to providing support to anyone affected by a false sexual offence allegation or child protection issue.

FFOPS supports families and friends of prisoners through the Criminal Justice System and helps those who are struggling emotionally, physically and economically. FFOPS manages the Visitors' Centre at HMP Swansea.

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.

Families Anonymous is a self-help fellowship, based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, with about 50 local meetings in the UK of families and friends affected by another's drug abuse. The focus is on the family and supporting them in coping with addicts and on helping them to put their lives back together. Families Anonymous is non-religious and non-affiliated, and is funded by its members' voluntary contributions; there are family groups all over the UK.

Our organisation peer supports families bereaved from acts of homicide and culpable road death. We also have a childrens group called OLLY that supports children who have not only been bereaved through acts of violence or road death but OLLY also introduces children from areas of high deprivation and poverty within areas of high crime rate. FFFJ also educates and deters our younger generation away from criminal activity or gang involvement, working also with families on a package designed for the family that need help and support with whatever the problems are within that family. Both organisations are run by qualified volunteers.

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.

At the heart of our work is a model we refer to as the ‘Barefoot Professional’. This means that our team is made up of people who are from the communities we serve and possess a resource of lived experience. Over the years we have found that working this way, essentially growing our own talent, we achieve a closer connection with those we support and crucially, more lasting impact. In this way we ensure that our people remain our most valuable asset. They lead by example, work with integrity and serve as great role models. Our services include family support, youth provision, health and wellbeing coaches, and training and employability programmes. The charity runs from Howdon Community Hub which we are responsible for running, which includes a community cafe, gym, multi use games area and several rooms that we can hire out. We have some key partners based within the hub including Newcastle United Foundation, Fit Mind Boxing Warriors and True Colours. One of our main aims is to reduce anti social behaviour within the area by taking a 'whole family approach' when working with people at risk of offending. We take referrals directly from Northumbria police, as well as local probation services. Our family workers support families when social services is involved with the family, or at risk of being involved with the family. This includes when a parent is involved in the criminal justice system/in prison.

We advise, advocate and campaign for families whose children are involved with, or need, children services. We provide free and confidential advice to parents and family members. Our advisers help explain the maze of childcare law and local authority processes, with the aim of helping more children to remain living safely within their own families.

The Fawcett Society, the UK's leading campaigner for gender equality, campaigns for economic, social and political rights for women. We work to make a difference for women offenders by campaigning for legislative change and influencing policy and practice in the Criminal Justice System.

FearFree provides support to people with experience of domestic abuse and sexual violence, through one-to-one and structured group initiatives. We work with victims and survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence, as well as perpetrators of abuse.

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

Feathers Futures brings women together into
a connected community group, providing a safe, non-judgemental environment where
women can have a voice, express feelings, be heard and understood. The aim of all our
work is to empower and enable women to make positive choices about their futures.
Primarily working within Great Yarmouth, our services are focused around a women’s hub
offering information, advice and guidance to women over the age of 18. The hub is based
centrally in Great Yarmouth, a coastal town which records some of highest levels of social
and economic deprivation in the UK.
A range of courses and workshops are delivered from the hub, in areas such as confidence
building, resilience, domestic abuse, preparing for employment, creative writing, looking at
health and well-being as well as others; delivered in conjunction with other organisations.

Feltham Community Chaplaincy Trust (FCCT) supports young people aged 15–25 as they move from custody back into the community, providing the consistent, relational support that so many lack. We work alongside young people at HMP/YOI Feltham and continue that support through the gate and into the community for up to 12 months, ensuring no one has to navigate release alone.
Our model is built on long-term, trusted relationships. Each young person is matched with a trained volunteer mentor who walks with them through the challenges of resettlement—housing, education and training, employment, mental health, family reconnection, and day to day problem solving. Mentors are supported and supervised by our full time resettlement workers, ensuring safe, structured, and high quality practice.
We specialise in working with young people who have experienced trauma, exclusion, and instability. Many have limited support networks and face multiple barriers on release. Our approach is patient, person centred, and strengths based: we focus on building confidence, stability, and hope through consistent presence and practical help.
Our services include:
• In custody engagement – meeting young people on the wings, building trust, and preparing for release.
• Through the gate support – meeting young people on the day of release and ensuring immediate needs are met.
• Community mentoring – weekly relational support focused on goals such as ETE, housing, wellbeing, and positive identity.
• Resettlement casework – structured support from our staff team, including advocacy, referrals, and multi agency coordination.
• Volunteer training and supervision – equipping local people to become safe, confident, and effective mentors.
We are the only community chaplaincy in the country dedicated specifically to 15–25 year olds, and our work is rooted in the belief that long term, trusted relationships are key to reducing reoffending and enabling young people to build meaningful, stable futures.