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Join ClinksBirmingham Community Development Scheme (BCDS) is a specialist organisation in Birmingham that provides mentoring to young offenders, ex-offenders and the long termed unemployed. BCDS specialized in the delivery of behaviour modification workshops, employability workshops, job clubs, CV and cover letters workshops and other programmes for young people who are at risk of offending and people who want to get back into work.
Contact
Address
Saturn Business Centre
54-76 Bissell Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B5 7HP
United Kingdom
Help Line No.
07526873498
Work Tel. No.
0121 692 1066
hr@bcds-solutions.co.uk
Website
In Brief
Primary Field of Work
Mentoring & befriending
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
No. of service users
120
No. of Paid Staff
4
No. of Volunteers
25
No. of peer mentors
8
Organisation type
Social Enterprise - non-profit
Legal status
Company limited by guarantee
Year of Formation
2011
Contract History
Supporting information
“By providing intensive case management, mentoring and educational services to at-risk Birmingham youth particularly in Edgbaston Ward, we will strengthen each young person’s capacity to successfully connect with his or her family and community and lay the foundation for a healthy transition to adulthood.”
1 Evaluation of 9 one-off interventions delivered to schools and PRU’s in Birmingham.
Birmingham Crime Diversion Scheme Ltd delivered 9 crime diversion workshops to young people from across Lee Bank, Ladywood Road, Highgate, and Handsworth. The groups were either self-referral or those referred by agencies – all were mainstream school or alternative education programmes. A high percentage of the young people we saw had previously committed offences of some sort – and were either excluded from mainstream education (through their behaviour) or were displaying risk fact
1 Evaluation of 9 one-off interventions delivered to schools and PRU’s in Birmingham.
Birmingham Crime Diversion Scheme Ltd delivered 9 crime diversion workshops to young people from across Lee Bank, Ladywood Road, Highgate, and Handsworth. The groups were either self-referral or those referred by agencies – all were mainstream school or alternative education programmes. A high percentage of the young people we saw had previously committed offences of some sort – and were either excluded from mainstream education (through their behaviour) or were displaying risk fact
Partner organisations
Staffordshire and West Midlands Community Rehabilitation Company- ETE and Community Payback
Birmingham Voluntary Service Centre - Step Out Project
Regions
West Midlands
Area covered
1 or more regions
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy
Case management
Counselling
Domestic & sexual violence
Education
Employment
Family support
Finance, benefits & debt
Legal advice
Mentoring & befriending
Sentence management
Peer support
Personal development
Race
Resettlement
Restorative justice
Lived experience involvement
Sports
Training
Volunteering
Racially minoritised people specialist services
Black, Black British or Black Welsh