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Enable all women across the UK and Ireland to take back ownership of their lives from abusive men and from patriarchal systems. We do this through training and developing resources. Practitioners join our 5-day training events which enable them to run Own My Life courses either online or in-person with women who have been subjected to abuse. This includes women within the criminal justice system; recently we have seen Own My Life courses delivered with women on day release from prison.

We provide a range of accommodation and support for people who are homeless from the county of Oxfordshire, including ex offenders. We have a large hostel in Oxford for people who have recently been rough sleeping, and a variety of second stage accommodation in Oxford and Abingdon. This includes 41 units of accommodation specifically for ex offenders. Currently we are prioritising offenders who have been through Approved Premises. This is the Compass Project. See our website for further details. We may be interested in developing more of this kind of accommodation in future.

P3's main aim is to give people the practical skills and self esteem that they need to sustain an independent and self sufficient lifestyle by providing opportunities and support to help vulnerable people move from social exclusion to inclusion.

P3 offers successful and lasting routes out of social exclusion and homelessness by operating a variety of effective services to help to overcome the challenges that the public sector can no longer tackle alone in creating positive outcomes to people at real risk of social exclusion.

We've been around for over 30 years, working in some of the most deprived areas of the UK with some of the most at risk groups in our society, helping them to rebuild their lives. And we're pretty good at it too. We support hundreds of people every day to take control of their lives and move towards social inclusion and healthy positive lifestyles.

PAC provides advice, counselling and training services to support all affected by adoption and permanency: children/families, adults who were adopted/placed as children, birth family members and professionals. Its daily Advice Line provides advice and information on all aspects of adoption and other forms of permanent care. In addition to individual counselling and family therapy, PAC provides support with contact arrangements between adoptive and birth families, intermediary services for birth relatives and adopted adults and regular drop-ins for birth mothers whose children have been compulsorily removed.

Climate change. Conflict. Inequality. Palladium has spent 60 years working with governments, businesses, investors, and communities to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. Our clients trust us to design and implement complex, large-scale programs in any environment, creating lasting impact where it’s needed most.

In the UK, this includes delivering DWP’s flag-ship Employment Support programme: Restart, as a subcontractor to Fedcap in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight; delivering innovative DWP cohort specific programmes e.g. Long-term unemployed people, MAPPA, Prison Leavers, providing ESOL; Palladium is also a Prime provider of the Home Office funded Refugee Employability Programme across the Southeast of England.

Papertrail Theatre Company exists to make compelling theatre alongside communities whose stories rarely get staged. Our next production A Visit, highlights the issue of maternal imprisonment and its impact on children. We have created this play in partnership with Clean Break.
Previous projects inlcude A Night in the Clink - a production that grew from a two year programme of workshops with those working in the Clink Restaurant Cardiff.
We have extensive experience of developing theatre projects in prisons. For further information about the work we do please email our founding Artistic Director: bridget.keehan@papertrail.org.uk

Founded in 2020 and rooted in the vibrant community of Lewisham, South London, Paradigm Project stands as a beacon of transformative change in the educational landscape. Our journey began with a bold vision: to sculpt a future where every educational institution is a stronghold of equity, inclusivity, and diversity. We believe in a world where every child, irrespective of their background, is entitled to quality education and the essential support to flourish, thereby nurturing a society that recognises and elevates the potential within each individual.
At Paradigm Project, we are relentless in our fight for racial and social equity in education. Our commitment is unwavering—to ensure that every child is not just supported but is also resourced and presented with opportunities to thrive in their unique way. Our mission is to cultivate an educational environment that is not only inclusive but also empowering, where diversity is not just acknowledged but celebrated.

Our advocacy service advocates in the best interests of homeless and ex-offender's children (the highest risk group). We represent the best interests of their children in Court, housing applications and in family mediation. We write reports on risks and outcomes based on consultation with parents, solicitors, probation, third sector or Social Workers. We either write or attend Family Court or Youth Court as expert witnesses on Rights and risks of abuse and criminalisation to Children and Young People who become involved in the criminal justice system.
We need to form partnerships with accommodation providers and resettlement services for individuals and families with children at risk or young people under threat from others in their current location

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.