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Step Together Volunteering's Justice Programme provides 1:1 and group support for individuals in contact, or at risk of contact with the criminal justice system.
We have 3 programmes:
1) 1-1 Support & Community Volunteering - support for young people who have had contact with the criminal justice system to take up volunteering placements in their community to help them develop confidence, skills and experience to move closer to employment.
2) 'For My Future' - our 6 week course supporting young women who have offended or are at risk of offending to develop personal and practical skills to move towards employment.
2) 'Chance to Change'- a Deferred Prosecution Service that we deliver in partnership with Rise Mutual CIC and The Nelson Trust, on behalf of Avon & Somerset Police, offering young people 18-24 who have committed an offence the opportunity to avoid prosecution by engaging with tailored support.
For information regarding referrals please visit our website or get in touch.

Stepping Stones is a unique service in Luton for women offering support on a variety of issues such as drugs/alcohol, domestic abuse, mental health, problems related to offending or re-offending in a safe, warm and supportive environment. We also have an Ofsted Registered Childcare Service so children can be looked after in a safe environment whilst their mothers/carers access support. We work in Partnership with BeNCH CRC to divert women from custody, reduce women’s offending and divert women from the criminal justice system. We offer a huge variety of comprehensive services. We are a holistic womens service that understands and takes every aspect of women’s lives into account. We use gender-responsive guiding principles in creating an environment that reflects and understands the realities of the lives of women that addresses and responds to their strengths and challenges.

Our primary objective at S2R is to offer our clients 12 Step-based addiction treatment based on their need rather than their ability to access funding. There are numerous rehabs available for those with money but hardly any available for those with none. We at S2R believe that everyone should have the opportunity to turn their lives around, regardless of financial circumstance. We raise all our own funds privately without recourse to government funding – this means our clients can access treatment at ‘point of need’ rather than following weeks of community based funding assessments.

Steps2Recovery gives hope to people who are trapped in the nightmare of addiction, crime and short prison sentences – people who desperately want to change their lives and become fulfilled members of the community. As a result of our work individuals’ lives are improved, broken families and relationships are healed and the wider community is a safer place. Everybody benefits.

Stockport Homes has delivered the Stockport Housing Offender Service (SHOS) since 2009. The work is integrated to achieve complimentary outcomes for agencies including Probation, Spotlight, Supporting People, Prisons, Youth Offending Team and the Problem Solving Court.
SHOS has a dedicated Housing Officer and typically deals with 30 offenders per month, providing advice on both maintaining existing and securing new accommodation. This includes visiting those on remand to prevent them losing their homes, and to prisoners to plan their move-on. The Officer also undertakes homelessness assessments and accesses Temporary Accommodation where required.
SHOS undertakes regular surgeries at Probation and HMP Forest Bank. Recently, the service has begun outreach to Stockport Women’s Centre, where it deals with female offenders. In addition to these responsibilities the service also supports clients in the community such as:
• Temporary Accommodation;
• Approved premises;
• Clients’ homes

Working together to improve the quality of women’s lives in Stockport.

Stockport Women's Centre provides services to any women who is in need of support. This includes women who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence. Due to the nature of the work membership is restricted to women only.

The Women’s Centre provides the following services:

* Counselling & Psychotherapy
* Complementary Therapies
* Self Help Groups
* Domestic Abuse Drop in
* Legal Advice Surgery
* Education Courses (Numeracy & Literacy)
* Freedom Programme

Mission Statement
The Women’s Centre will support, empower and educate to improve the wellbeing and physical and mental health of women, enabling them to have improved life chances for themselves and their families.

The Stonham Leeds Accommodation Service is a residential service providing 26 bed spaces in shared accommodation and 10 bed spaces in self contained accommodation in Hunslet, Beeston and Kirkstall areas of Leeds. We provide accommodation to homeless male, female and transgender ex-offenders on a probation licence or community order over the age of 18 for up to 2 years.

Through tailored support plans we work with clients to identify and develop their skills to live independently and avoid re-offence. We offer support in helping to build self-confidence and self-esteem. We help clients to access specialist support in a number of areas including: mental health, alcohol and substance misuse and support around addressing offending behaviour.

We assist clients to find appropriate permanent accommodation. We provide practical support with moving and resettlement issues. The projects can remain a point of contact for clients who feel they may need assistance once they have moved on.

StopSO is the only UK-wide charity offering 121 face-to-face therapy to anyone who feels at risk of sexually offending for the first time or re-offending. We also offer therapy to their partners and families.
We offer therapy to survivors and victims of sexual abuse too.

Hafan Cymru is a Registered Social landlord, formed in 1989, and having grown out of an initiative of the Women’s Aid movement in Wales at a time when refuge was the only form of accommodation or support for women living with domestic abuse. We are the leading provider of housing and support services across Wales for women, men and children experiencing violence against women and domestic abuse, and our mission is to work to prevent abuse and homelessness and to promote the independence of those we support through a range of individually tailored support interventions. Over the past 24 years we have expanded from our original intent to provide long term support for women and children moving on from refuges and who have multiple, complex needs. We now have 50 projects across 17 local authorities in North, Mid/ West and South Wales supporting men as well as women and children, providing refuge, safe houses, temporary supporting houses and floating and outreach support.

We help imprisoned parents to keep in touch with their children by enabling them to create personalised story CDs or DVDs, thereby improving literacy skills for both parent and child. Most of the CD and DVD production work is done by trained prisoners who can also gain valuable skills and qualifications.

We are professional artists who work collaboratively to create, perform and share artistic works that entertain, inspire, educate and inform. We use fairy tales, folk stories, global myths and cultural legends as the inspiration, the foundation, for the development of our work. We create films, installations, performances and exhibitions which engage with and raise awareness of issues faced by communities across the UK and beyond. Storymine is also an Arts Award Centre and our Directors are both Arts Award Advisors. We are committed to developing opportunities for communities to engage with the arts.

We run day-long creative writing workshops, tutored by published children’s authors, teaching prisoners how to write bedtime stories for their children in order for them to maintain contact with their families and help lessen the trauma of parental absence for a child. The stories are then printed and given to the children or recorded via Storybook Dads initiative. We have Arts Council support for this work and have been featured in Woman’s Hour and in the Guardian.

At SFT we provide support and training to all young people and adults who are at risk of offending or re-offending. We give the opportunity to turn a life around by providing: Education, Training, Holistic support to address issues; Stable accommodation; A challenge to negative attitudes and behaviour; Positive role models/peer mentors that have had personal experiences. This course is designed to improve teamwork, responsibility, motivational skills, and leadership skills, peer mentoring and independent living skills. The activities are arduous both mentally and physically and span the whole day, from early morning to late in the evening. We offer a 3 to 5 day residential course in a rural setting to groups of people from various backgrounds, cultures and communities for an intensive and demanding course. The mentoring service is available to ex-offenders, recovering addicts, venerable young people and young people on the verge of becoming NEET.

Street Soccer Academy is a professional service provider that specialises in the rehabilitation and reintegration of vulnerable and ‘at-risk’ individuals into communities. We work on behalf of some of the nation’s hardest to reach groups within our communities. Our custody to community model is in operation in HMP Forest Bank and has proven to be very successful over the three-year period we have operated in partnership with them. Street Soccer Academy offers two main streams of service delivery – a football based coach education programme and health and fitness programme. Our community based regional centres provide the opportunity to continue engaging with the participants once released and to develop their roles in society. With 80 men a year having completed our internal programmes, more than 90% choose to engage with us in community and we have an associated reoffending rate of just 8%.

We are a national charity that teaches emergency life saving skills to young people. Specifically we target high risk young people that are likely to be affected by violent crime. Our teaching includes what to do when someone is bleeding and what to do when someone is unconscious. As well as providing them with key skills, we hope to empower these individuals to make a positive difference in their area, instilling a sense of social responsibility and creating a lasting change in their attitudes towards violent crime. All teaching is provided by medical students or qualified doctors who work tirelessly to ensure all content is of the highest quality. Our teaching plans are custom made and are specifically targeted at young people. They are designed to be simple, interactive and memorable. We already work with numerous centres nationwide, including youth groups, charities, secure units and youth offending teams, providing regular sessions to a range of young people.

Streetlight UK provides a specialised support service for women involved in prostitution across Sussex, Surrey and London. We support women and help them overcome the challenges that limit their choices: such as the lack of education, training and employment opportunities as well as the physical and emotional barriers before them.
To offer an holistic wrap around support that goes beyond crisis intervention and harm reduction to empower women to:
Regain physical and emotional stability.
Rebuild trust, self esteem and confidence.
Receive support and address root causes in a safe environment.
Reconnect with self, family and society.
Reach their full potential.

We provide residential rehabilitation for people with addiction problems as a primary issue. Clients very often have a secondary issue such as; mental health issue, offending behaviour, physical impairment, health imapairment, literacy impairment and so on. We work with men and women from 18yrs upwards. We provide simple detox facilities where necessary. We actively work with clients of differing backgrounds and religions. We also provide support housing incorporating a 'back to work' element, re-integration, after care and day care for the same client group. We also provide help and support for family members and friends. We take clients from all regions.

We aim to facitate confidence and lifeskills through the creative arts, access to culture and new technology. We work mainly with the offending community and young people who are at risk of offending. Stretch achieves its objectives by delivering a variety of innovative and bespoke projects, enhancing the rehabilitation and education of these marginalized communities. We are clear advocates of the benefits of cultural education in engaging into society those that have suffered social exclusion and fallen through the welfare net.

At present, our primary focus is the delivery of Stretch Digital, a digital literacy project with prisoners providing a platform for the making and dissemination of digital stories using technology to bridge the digital divide. We equip participants with skills in new media in order to share their personal experiences of the criminal justice system and the life that lead them there.

Sue Ryder supports people living through the challenges of life-limiting conditions in our hospices, neurological care centres and in the community.
Sue Ryder's award winning prison volunteer programme offers work experience and training to currently serving offenders helping to equip them with transferable skills whilst increasing their self-confidence and self-esteem. We are currently working with around 60 prisons nationally with volunteers working in a variety of roles in over 120 locations. Many of our volunteers move on to paid work with us.

We are an award winning service user team, who on 2nd June 2014 were awarded the equivalent of an MBE, by Her Majesty the Queen. We manage local service user involvement work (forums, consultations, research etc.) In addition we offer individuals who have been in any way affected by addiction and social exclusion, the opportunity to move forward with their lives. We support access to opportunities within education, training, volunteering and employment. We do this by way of offering tailored and bespoke support (by people in recovery) to our visitors and service users alike. We have supported 131 people into sustainable employment within the last 4 and a half years (Jan 2011 to July 2015) and believe that everyone has the power change. We recruit volunteers to support our work (all 4 staff members volunteered initially). We also offer recreational activities to increase social networks and they are free for the participants.

Supatrax is an on-line magazine that engages young people from inner city areas through the use of new media. Supatrax offers accredited learning at hard-to-reach or NEET young people in the community, school environment, youth centre or within nationwide media centres. Supatrax also offers advertising and promotion for partner organisations.