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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.

Family Links is a national charity and training organisation dedicated to the promotion of emotional health at home, at school, and at work.

We offer high-quality training and resources for professionals working with families, school and university staff, and employees in the workplace.

Our vision is for every child and adult to be able to realise their individual potential, enjoy positive relationships and live healthy and fulfilled lives.

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.

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.

Fine Cell Work trains and pays prisoners to do craftwork in their cells to encourage motivation, improve mental health and build employability skills. FCW is geared to long-term, male and female, high risk offenders who stay on the programme for 2 to 10 years. Our goal is to enable prisoners to gain social and employment skills so they can desist from re-offending in the future. Prisoners on the programme work for 20-40 hours a week in their cells.

We have a workforce of approximately 250 prisoners across 30 prisons. The apprenticeship training is done by 50 skilled volunteers. The prisoners make hand-embroidered quilts, cushions, clothes, rugs and furniture covers which are sold internationally and to museums and designers.

Our aim is to enable prisoners to gain motivation and “work-readiness” by doing cellwork and to follow on with further employment preparation in workshops where they can do accredited training in soft furnishings, machine embroidery and upholstery.

We strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of disadvantaged people and communities by motivating healthy behaviour change. We specialise in delivering person focussed, outcomes driven Behaviour Change services and skills training to people and professionals living and working in the North East.

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)

Fitness Rush Community CIC was formed on the 9th August 2022 by its founder Liam Rushmer, with the main
focus of continuing the private personal training developed at Fitness Rush Ltd in Old Hurst, Cambridgeshire to
include wider communities, deprived areas and address homelessness. The usp targets individuals who would like
to use exercise as a tool to better themselves and learn sustainable lifestyle practices to support their growth and career pathway potential. By initially working alongside Fitness Rush Mobile, individuals can enjoy exercise at their homes, public spaces or workplaces, which will dramatically reduce certain barriers, when faced with any new challenging prospect.
Our qualification centre helps learners gain knowledge about their body, nutrition and sustainable lifestyle choices, which can be used both in their own lives and also towards a new career in the leisure industry.

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.

Just started up, following on from some work before lockdown on mindfulness & trauma with prison population. Very early days, but to start a mindfulness for trauma group in prison, and also training participants in delivering the group programme. Working on the links between trauma, and abuse, violence and addiction and using behavioural and group techniques to heal.

We are the UK’s only Registered Charity dedicated to transforming the food served in British prisons. We work with prisons on the subject of food - to improve the lives of those eating it and support the people making it. Our aim is to positively impact the health and wellbeing of prisoners, by delivering practical food-based education, promoting healthy eating and designing exciting food and drink initiatives.

Our projects and activities cover every aspect of food, cooking, eating and hospitality. We work with prisons on a bespoke basis, co-designing original initiatives that enable prisons to champion wholesome, tasty and exciting food. Our work is shaped around each unique establishment and united by our philosophy of wholesome food for everyone in society.

Food Matters Foundation is a charity that works to see healthy, sustainable, fair food become a reality for everybody, every day. We work to deliver change in policy and practice through innovative, participatory, citizen-led, whole systems approaches. Food Matters has developed a unique voice in the food sector and a highly successful way of working that can help individuals, communities, groups, businesses and other organisations develop, deliver and evaluate ground-breaking, food policy work and locally relevant initiatives.

A major focus of Food Matters’ current work programme is on food system reform across the penal sector including services that encompass ‘at risk’ of offending, prisoners and probation to change food policy and the food environment to better support prisoners and ex-offenders to access healthier food choices to improve health and mental well-being and reduce reoffending.

We are doing this through a project called Food Matters Inside and Out.