Partnership Finder

abandofbrothers was established in 2008 by men committed to positive social change through personal development and community building. It serves the most vulnerable young men by inviting them to collaborate in a meaningful and common purpose. This is achieved by providing local adult men with powerful training that develops mentoring skills, emotional intelligence and enhances authenticity and confidence. The rites of passage experience we provide for young men allows them to deal with the trauma of their past. Armed with the support of a mentor and the abandofbrothers community, young men move on to live lives of purpose and meaning.

Employment, housing, education, complaints, community asset acquisition, welfare rights, criminal justice reports, human rights, access to healthcare and community care.

We work with people from all disadvantaged backgrounds, all equality protected characteristics; also: suffering from poverty, deprivation, homelessness, addictions, ex-prisoners, past convictions, abuse, neurodiversity, isolation...

We are grassroots, equality and lived experience founded and led, are in close contact with the beneficiaries we are supporting.

We provide writing and publishing services, which include writing for wellbeing, improving educational and career related writing skills, employability, social integration, improving mental health and tackling isolation, mentoring and editing support to get into publishing and journalism.

We run writing workshops for prisoners, motivational writing competitions which tackle stigma and aid social integration, also innovational book publishing projects.

We provide supervised work placements, arrange accessible and inclusive cultural and social events. Our beneficiaries can join us as volunteers, staff, and trustees

BLAST Foundation is a Christian "Through The Gate" Resettlement organisation, working with prisoners and ex-offenders and their families of all faiths and no faiths. BLAST aim to be provider of choice, for prisons and probation trusts wishing to reduce recidivism and improve resettlement for prison inmates who want to transform their lives and break their cycle of re-offending. BLAST achieves this through our transformation, employability & business programmes delivered in prison. These programmes combine and are supported by BLASTs mentor and resettlement services, to support ex-offenders and their families in the difficult task of re-integrating in society

Chrysalis was formed originally in 2003 to provide Specialist Structured Support, Detoxification, Harm Reduction & Treatment Services as well as Relapse Management Services that had been specifically designed to address Dependency, Associative Mental Health Issues and to attend to the Resultant Chaotic & Repeat Homelessness experienced by sufferers as a result. All services are delivered within our Good Quality Community Based Supported Accommodation Projects. Since opening our services have grown, evolved, changed and adapted to meet the challenges unique to our sector and to respond and adapt more effectively to the needs of our service users.
Chrysalis now offers a number of Specialist Support Programmes delivered within a framework of Good Quality Supported Accommodation.
Chrysalis is a Non-Profit Private Registered Provider of Social Housing Registered Number 4751 and a member of the Housing Ombudsman and the National Housing Federation.

Founded in 2012, Key4Life is a dynamic, expanding charity which works on the front-line with young men (18 to 25 year-olds) in prison and those at risk of going to prison, helping them to find a new path and successfully reintegrate back into society through an innovative seven-step model. Key4Life empowers vulnerable young offenders, minimises barriers and creates opportunities to ensure successful rehabilitation and integration into society upon release. Key4Life's aims are to reduce youth re-offending rates and not only address symptoms but rather the root causes of re-offending.

Currently 74% of young offenders end up back in prison within 2 years of release (Ministry of Justice 2012). Participants who have been through the Key4Life programme are 4 times less likely to re-offend.

This year, Key4Life is running prison programmes for participants at HMP Thameside, HMP Forest Bank and HMP Fosse Way and preventative ‘At Risk’ programmes in London and Somerset.

The Restore Trust believe in a fair society where socially excluded people are supported to obtain skills, qualifications and employment to build sustainable, independent lives contributing positively to society.
At its foundation, The Restore Trust was set up in 2009 by the current CEO Suzanne Thompson and SMT board of Avon & Somerset Probation Trust, in conjunction with the National Offender Management Service. The organisation was registered as an independent VCSE in 2010 and is managed by an excellent board of trustees. Whilst the organisation retains a specialism in working with people with complex needs and criminal convictions, it can work with anyone in the community who is experiencing barriers in accessing training and employment.
Many of our clients have complex needs in relation to homelessness, mental health problems, drug/alcohol dependency and offending behaviour. We pride ourselves on our non-judgemental, person-centred approach in our work.

Unlock Drama (UD) has over eight years’ experience working across the criminal justice system, delivering in more than 30 prisons with groups including sex offenders, young offenders, women vulnerable prisoners and foreign nationals.

Prisons we work within include: HMPYOI Swinfen Hall, HMYOI Brinsford and HMP Send etc.

UD utilises creative methods, which offers a unique tool that encourages teamwork, confidence, communication skills, motivation, organisation, listening skills, leadership, resilience and more. UD deliver creative projects closely linked to rehabilitation and focuses on addressing dominant concerns within the prison estate such as Engagement in activities, Substance Misuse and Debt.

UD also delivers issue-based theatre within the community working with participants such as: recovering drug addicts, homeless, young people at risk of offending and ex-offenders.

In 2013 the Ambition South West Consortium was selected by the National Offender Management Service with the European Social Fund to develop a viable third sector offer to support large scale resettlement programmes for those who have offended.

The NOMS ESF funded SW Enhanced consortium consists of

Construction Youth Trust
Barnardo’s
1625 Independent People
Weston College
Learning Partnership West

and developed from and works in consultation with the Youth Justice Board SW Resettlement Consortium. This includes representatives from police, Youth Offending Teams, the Secure Estate, Probation and the Third sector.

The activities of the Ambition South West Consortium are designed to meet the needs of the present generation, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. We are committed to the preventative agenda and pick up from the end of custody provision to stop individuals from falling through the cracks and provide them with continuity.