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Sacro is a national organisation with over 40 years experience in delivering a range of housing support, criminal justice, youth justice and restorative justice services across Scotland. Sacro's mission is to be a community based organisation that will create safe and cohesive communities by reducing conflict and offending. Sacro's vision is for a safer Scotland, also to resolve conflict constructively and to deal effectively with offending and the consequences.

Safe Ground works to reduce the risk of offending and reoffending based on a continually developing understanding of the origins and impact of crime and a commitment to empowering people to change.

We are primarily an organisation that works with men who are being investigated for sexual offences. However, we also work with more general harmful sexual behaviours, and with serious violent offenders, especially in their resettlement into the community after long periods of imprisonment.

The Safer Living Foundation (SLF) was founded in February 2014. It is a joint venture between HMP Whatton and senior academics from Nottingham Trent University. It is supported by the National Probation Service (East Midlands) and Nottinghamshire Police as well as many others. As a Charitable Incorporated Organisation that adopts a multi-agency approach with a strong research component, the SLF is focused on reducing sexual offending and re-offending through rehabilitative and preventative initiatives.

Our Charitable Objectives:
•To promote the protection of people from, and the prevention of, sexual crime.
•To promote the rehabilitation of persons who have committed or who are likely to commit sexual offences against others.

This innovative work has led to SLF being nominated for and winning many awards including, most recently: Charity of the Year at the Third Sector Awards 2019.

For more information about our work or how you could contribute, please see the details below.

Safer London is a leading London charity working with young Londoners and their families affected by violence and exploitation.
Through one to one intervention and targeted group work we’re supporting young Londoners to move onto the positive futures that they deserve. We put young Londoners at the centre of their support, focusing on them and their needs. By building strong, trusting relationships we gain an insight into their world, begin to understand what they need and together find the best ways to keep them safe.
Understanding that young Londoners’ lives are shaped by the world in which they live, we work not only with them and their families, but also their peer networks and directly within the community and the places where they live and spend their time.
With a footprint in every borough in London, we build trusting, professional partnerships to embed our approaches and work towards achieving our vision of a city that is safer for all the young Londoners who live here.

Safer Merthyr Tydfil is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. Registered in 1997, although it was established 2-years previous, 1995, under a Home Office Safer Cities Initiative. The organisation has a Wales-wide remit, currently providing services in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taff.

The aim of the organisation is to, in partnership with others, reduce crime, fear of crime and increase community confidence and cohesion.

The organisation does this through delivery of targeted programmes of work. Through these programmes, SMT works with a variety of key partner agencies from all sectors, in particular core statutory such as Local and National Govt, Police, Health etc.

We currently offer a number of programmes, supported by a variery of funders, in relation to key priorites such as domestic abuse, young people and ASB/offending behaviour, home security target hardening etc. Our range of programmes reach service users across the full age spectrum.

Safer Wales is an independent charity based in Cardiff. We work across Wales and manage a range of different projects which support some of the most vulnerable, and excluded in Welsh communities. We developed the Womens Turnaround service which worked with women who offend, or risk of offending. We manage the Streetlife project, which works with women who are exploited through streetbased prostitution. We provide an outreach team and a supported housing project. We developed the Womens Safety Unit which provides Independant Domestic Violence Advisor to work with high risk victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence. We developed and manange the first service for for male victims of domestic abuse in Wales, Dyn project. We have a human exploitation project which has developed a pathway, and information protocol for people who are trafficked.

Sahir House offers a wide range of services to people and families on Merseyside living with, or affected by, HIV. Services offered comprise: internet access, peer support and mentoring, therapies, counselling, training, information, support groups, welfare rights, social workers, HIV community nurses, outreach, advocacy, and many opportunities to volunteer.

We are a social inclusion charity that aims to create better futures for young people and adults in the North West. In 2019/2020, we helped 15,000+ people in the community, prison and women’s centres. We operate mainly in Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Lancashire. Key activities include:
• Digital skills, financial literacy, careers learning, enterprise activities and mentoring support in schools and colleges to raise aspirations.
• Targeted youth services including mentoring and family support for vulnerable children and young people.
• Information, advice, guidance, employment and training support to disadvantaged young people and adults.
• Specialist adult services from offender management and rehabilitation, money skills, debt advice and fuel poverty advice to domestic abuse services.
• Group health and wellbeing activities and peer-led support

We work with young offenders, vulnerable women and men with complex needs.

We provide direct support services within the community for ex-offenders, older people and people in debt. We work to support ex-offenders in the resettlement process, which includes offering supported housing and help with personal and practical development, with the aim of reducing the risk of reoffending.

We have a referral process and accept referrals from various statutory providers, voluntary sector providers and in person. All new referrals complete a referral form and risk assessment before being offered accommodation.


All clients take part in a support planning process. Each client has a support worker and regular reviews of the support plan take place. We use the outcome star to work with clients to help them to identify the various actions needed to address their journey to independent living away from offending.

All clients are able to access our training, volunteer mentoring scheme, opportunities for volunteering and our debt advice service.

Saltbox has been providing caring services for vulnerable people in Stoke-on-Trent for many years. As part of the charity, we run a supported housing service called Restart. We house anyone who is homeless or at risk of homelessness and provide a tailored support package for each client to encourage them to make positive change in their lives and journey towards independent living. Our specialism is in housing clients who are prison leavers or people on probation. We have a dedicated team of support workers, supported by a number of additional posts providing more specialist support around chaplaincy, client activities, dual diagnosis and family reconnections.

Samaritans provides confidential emotional support to prisoners, either by telephone or face-to-face. The organisation also selects, trains and supports prisoners, known as Listeners, to offer confidential, emotional support to their fellow-inmates.

The Saracens Foundation is the charitable arm of Saracens Rugby Club. Working across Hertfordshire and North London, our vision is to inspire our community through the values of sport, physical activity and social opportunities as a catalyst for positive change, enabling the fulfilment of potential.

Save the Family is a registered charity based in rural West Cheshire. We have been in existence for more than three decades and we provide a safe community environment combined with basic support to homeless and troubled families where safeguarding of both vulnerable children and adults is absolutely paramount.

The charity works with troubled families who have lost almost everything and are fighting that last battle – to keep their children from being taken into care.
Save the Family offer a last chance to these families by providing temporary
accommodation, along with basic support and access to training to help
them get back on their feet and move forward with confidence.
We are based on a purpose built, modern facility designed to accommodate families and individuals in a mixture of 26 cottages and apartments. We have a Children and Families’ Centre with a fully equipped sensory room, age specific play areas and a “mock home” where families can learn how to have fun together.

The Company established for 29 years arts dramatherapy, Live streaming, training, Alcoholic and drug addiction recovery programmes, Educational establishments. Film /video production. chat shows to inspire individuals, Music, drama, creative writing therapy. We work with non-arts partners delivering motivational
taster courses, engaging participants with the benefits of natural substances for recovery. Work in the wider community includes, Film, theatre video production live streaming. ATTACC, NHS, Trauma role-play specifically dealing with knife crime, terrorist scenarios, murder scenarios. Further community base partners Men Cap, British / Scottish Autism, Deaf society, Local council providers. Alzheimer's societies, Schools nationally including SEN. Deafways. Our mission to use live streaming interactive, to inspire, engage and motivate positive change, using the 'Perfect Vehicle', drama and associated arts.

The Scottish Prison Arts Network (SPAN) is a focus group of artists and organisations working in criminal justice settings. It aims to bring practitioners together with the collective goal of delivering high-quality creative projects in prisons and communities across Scotland.

The IARS International Institute is a user-led charity with a mission to give everyone a chance to forge a safer, fairer and more inclusive society. IARS achieves its charitable aims by producing evidence-based solutions to current social problems, sharing best practice and by supporting young people and the community to shape decision making. IARS is an international expert in user-led research, evaluation, human rights and inclusion, citizenship, criminal justice and restorative justice. We deliver our charitable mission by:

- undertaking user-led research and advocacy;
- developing and delivering user-led training programmes; and
- assisting other organisations to develop robust theory of change models and evaluation frameworks to demonstrate their impact.

We deliver projects nationally and internationally throughout Europe across three main areas - justice, gender and equality, and youth.

Using the setting of the sea, our mission is to develop and maintain peoples’ positive mental health and wellbeing through the medium of sail training and health education.

Our aim is to reach individuals, children, young people and adults in communities who are struggling with mental health such as anxiety, depression, self-injurious behaviour or various forms of personality disorder.

Sea Sanctuary uses very different platforms from which we deliver our service; our wooden yacht ‘Fire Dancer’ and through our land-based facility, ‘Water’s Edge’. Work is also currently underway for our new well-being centre, ’The ARC’ which is due to launch in September 2018.

We deliver the Independent Complaints Advocacy Service (ICAS) in the South of England: a free and independent service for people who wish to complain about the NHS services they have received. In prison you have the same right as someone not in prison to healthcare and treatment, and the same right to complain if something goes wrong. We accept referrals from other agencies working with offenders as well as referrals directly from prisoners or their families. Our advocates can arrange face-to-face meetings with prisoners should this be necessary.

Since 1985 Seaview has been providing an open access wellbeing centre at the heart of St Leonards-on-Sea Seaview was set up by Helene White and Barbara Silvester, with the help of Jane Amstad in February 1985. At the time of Care in the Community a number of people who had been used to institutional living due to mental health problems, unable to cope with the sudden change and inadequate support found themselves street-homeless. Seaview’s inception was an organic voluntary sector initiative, creating responsive local support. Seaview became a registered Charity in August 1985 and a Company Limited by Guarantee in September 1996.
Today Seaview Centre and activities are funded from a mix of statutory funding, grants and charitable donations, and delivered with an open access approach to people experiencing a range of issues including: mental health, learning disabilities, substance misuse, physical disabilities social isolation, rough sleeping and homelessness.