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PATH Yorkshire is a Yorkshire-based charity providing education, training, employment pathways and holistic support for men, women and young people, including people in contact with the criminal justice system and those at risk of offending.

We deliver person-centred services that help people build confidence, develop skills and progress into education, employment and positive participation in their communities. Our work includes accredited and non-accredited training, employability support, supported employment, key working, case management, resettlement support and progression planning.

Working with people facing multiple barriers, including trauma, poverty, neurodiversity, discrimination and social isolation, we provide tailored, trauma-informed support that promotes resilience and long-term change. We work in partnership with statutory services, employers, education providers and voluntary organisations to improve rehabilitation, resettlement and inclusive opportunities.

We are a specialist domestic and sexual abuse service provider with emergency accommodation, community support, helpline, groups and counselling. We also work with children and young people, and support the parenting role. We have a drop in centre for immediate help, where we provide legal clinics, access to support with alcohol and mental health issues, and all abuse related work. We take a holistic view of support needs and will work with the issues around the abuse but also provide services for all other life issues. We work primarily with women and children but also have services for male victims. We have a 24 hour helpline and so are available easily and at any time. Our ethos is that we will provide as many of the services needed under one roof wherever this is possible. We recognise that life has many challenges and that working in isolation is not the answer - we have a partnership ethos throughout our organisation.

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.

Pattern + Push is a talent development platform for rappers and singers focussing on positive lyrics.

Working with groups either in one-off sessions or over a programme of sessions, we provide authentic professional songwriting and music recording experiences hosted by real industry professionals.

We guide participants to positive themes in music, working with them to develop lyrics and arrangements before recording their vocals over music with a professional quality mobile studio.

Our aims are to improve mental health, wellbeing and confidence, increase literacy and skills as well as encourage talent development as an alternative to criminal activity.

Following writing and recording, participants will receive a professionally mastered CD of their work as well as one of our Positive Lyric Packs to help inspire future song-writing.

Pave the Way North East is a newly established company made up of small team of dedicated volunteers working with agencies and individuals in need. Those needs are assessed as and barriers that may cause social exclusion.

We advocate and listen to all individuals and agencies to negotiate better outcomes for all stakeholders. We are independent are not influenced by one sector rather we look to build strong relationships with all partners in society.

Individualised Support
Meeting our clients needs through Personalised Action Plan tailored to meet the long term needs of the individual. Providing staged interventions that are manageable.

Welfare Referrals
To work with Charities, Organisations and Agencies to provide access to basic needs and essential items to those without.

Group Support
Meeting with multi disciplinary teams to best meet there aims and provide better outcomes for the some of the North Easts underrepresented.

PERS provides HR, Employment Law and Home Working Support, Advice and Training.
We provide a telephone helpline service, consultancy, training, mediation and produce a wide range of publications covering all aspects of employment law and home working.

Support and help facilitate the PEP, a media-based educational programme, created by The Prem Rawat Foundation. The purpose of the PEP is to help participants discover their own inner resources - innate tools for living such as inner strength, choice and hope. The PEP is being held in many types of organisations including prisons, veteran organisations and community groups. Advance the education of the public in the subject of personal peace through Peace for People and the Peace Education Programme (PEP) based on the teachings of Prem Rawat - by way of raising awareness, hosting events including training and provision of information and by fostering skills and attitudes necessary to recognise and defuse potential conflicts.

Pecan is a Peckham based charity working to tackle the causes of poverty and multiple disadvantage. Within Pecan, the Southwark and Lewisham Women's Hubs provide support for women affected by the criminal justice system and experiencing complex needs. The hubs enable women to access 1:1 advocacy from a Women's Advocate, a safe space to access information and advice, as well as a programme of holistic activities which promote improved wellbeing and mental health. We work in partnership with probation, as well as other voluntary sector organisations providing support to women in the borough.

As an organisation, Pecan has been serving people through a variety of local projects for over 30 years.

St Giles Trust's digital resettlement platform Peer Assist offers resettlement help 24/7 online and during office hours over the phone. Offered by trained Peer Advisors, Peer Assist can help ex-offenders and their families across the UK by offering advice, signposting people to St Giles Trust services or external ones.

Peer Power is a social justice charity that is rooted in the promotion of empathy. We support vulnerable children and their workers to develop strong and trusted relationships, improve emotional health and well-being, and to work together to transform services for children in need. Peer Power staff have experience of these support services, resulting in accelerated empathy and engagement with this group of ‘hard to reach’ children and young people.
Peer Power has been developed in response to what this group of young people have said would make a difference, and its work falls into three strands:
1. Relationships
2. Involvement
3. Employment
Services include: peer support, mentoring, relational training, employment support, service user consultation and research, professionals networks, journey of the child, shared decision making

We provide specialist counselling to men within the poorest and most deprived regions of the country that are typically risk crime rate areas.
We provide crisis support over the long term for high-risk clients
There isn’t a male advocacy service within Cornwall and Devon. We address this gap with an experienced crisis support worker.
We work with suicidal clients to re-engage in their lives and find meaning. We have a 100% success rate with suicidal clients. We periodically check in on them after they have completed their sessions and all are stable and working on moving their lives forwards.
We specialise in counselling for men (and those who identify as male) to support and encourage them to achieve their full potential. We work with victims of abuse, crime, domestic violence, childhood trauma, everyday trauma, and many other issues. We also work with historic trauma which continues to impact clients throughout their lives and is quite often what has lead to their criminal acts.

We believe that in a fair and effective criminal justice system, offenders are held to account, sentences are proportionate, and the primary purpose of prison is rehabilitation not retribution. We want to see:
A reduction in unnecessary imprisonment through greater use of non-custodial alternatives
The improvement of prison conditions and the prevention of torture and ill-treatment
Child-friendly criminal justice systems which use detention only as a last resort
proportionate and gender-sensitive responses to women offending
The abolition of the death penalty and the introduction of humane alternative sanctions.

Penrose is a charity that has been supporting people with complex needs for 50 years. As a Tier 2 provider for London CRC, we currently deliver the following high-performing services:

• Resettlement support to 6,000 men per year in 4 male prisons
• Community supervision of 2,500 men sentenced to less than 12 months, with our Responsible Officers based in every London borough
• Job Fairs that bring together a range of employers and trainers, providing service users a one-stop shop of live opportunities, CV and disclosure workshops and interview technique classes

Outside of our probation work, we deliver a wide range of residential and floating support services across London, Brighton and Bedfordshire, with a particular focus on mental health (including forensic), substance misuse and complex needs.

People Arise Now provides stabilising support for family members of prisoners and ex-offenders, through mentoring, life coaching, well-being activities and various workshops. The charity also mentors ex-offenders and offers a CV clinic, along with relevant workshops, to assist with community reintegration.

We aim to provide the advice people need for the problems they face and improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives.

At Peterborough CAB we provide free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.

We help people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice, and by influencing policymakers.

The types of community support services that we provide are:
• Financial capability, benefit and debt advice.
• Housing advice, prevention of homelessness work & court representation.
• Volunteer/supported placements in Bureaux.
• Mentoring and advocacy support,
• Prison in-reach advice and support.
We have active partnerships with local criminal justice and offender management consortia and the One Service, and are sub-contracted to Cross Keys Homes and Axiom to support their tenants.

Phoenix Futures provides services for people with drug and alcohol problems. We offer services within community, prison and residential settings in England and Scotland. Through our expertise we are able to support our service users at every stage of their recovery.

We have worked with a number of Probation Trusts delivering specialist substance misuse services.

Physical Folk is about storytelling. Every culture, community, group or individual has a story to tell. We provide a platform for people to share their stories through a range of mediums including film, immersive media and performing arts. We facilitate the sharing of skills and experiences amongst participants, to support and equip those who feel vulnerable or isolated from their community. We believe empowering people to be creative together nurtures community-feeling and cohesion by giving them a voice.
Our creative practitioners work with members of the community to generate and deliver their own social projects. We welcome people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, to share their skills and grow their community together.
We currently deliver a Creative Employability Programme for unemployed 16 to 24 year olds as part of a ESF and ESFA funded project to enable them to gain employment or access Further Education.

We provide an affordable, anonymous online recovery course for people struggling with sex and/or porn addiction. Our programme is evidence based and we are currently developing further programmes for partners. Our main client group are those who have committed a sexual offence as a consequence of their compulsive sexual behaviour, but we also work with those at risk of offending.

Looking to expand our services to support ex-offenders, Plan B Projects originally designed to provide mentoring to individuals aged 14-19 in education, employment or training and are at risk of expulsion, due to behavioural problems. We employ Person Centred Approaches to develop Plan B Projects. Our programme designed to nurture the dreams and aspirations of individuals. Role Models employed to identify individual’s barrier to learning, preferred learning methods, strength/talents. We use creative/stimulating motivational activities to develop these abilities leading to understanding of how positive engagement in society act as spring board to achieving ones dream.

Our vision is Sustainable wellbeing for all;
-Sustainable meaning long lasting
-Wellbeing meaning a sense of purpose, optimism, hope, agency, and direction
-All meaning us, our community, the people we work with and beside, humankind, animals and nature
Our mission is to be a platform for connection, transformation and social change.
We provide mental health and other services to 8000 people a year through our portfolio of 100 projects and services across five Welsh Health Board areas and fourteen local authorities, circa £9m annual turnover. Projects and services are grouped below;
-Crisis prevention and home: homelessness/mental health, housing and support
-Meaningful and purposeful life: employment, volunteering, training, skills development, community development, peer support, young people’s work, substance use
-Therapies, wellbeing centres, learning: counselling, workplace wellbeing, professional training and development