Partnership Finder

3SC manages contracts on behalf of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. The delivery of public services is a difficult and competitive marketplace, dominated by large commercial organisations that can lack the person-centred and inclusive approach to public services that the VCSE sector excels at delivering. 3SC gives these organisations a chance to compete for, and ultimately deliver, such contracts. We have built supply chains and worked with more than 550 different delivery organisations across 16 programmes in the welfare to work/employment, young people, criminal justice, and disabilities’ arenas. 3SC has supported and enabled the VCSE sector to access more than £62 million since its inception through our directly delivered contracts and Transforming Rehabilitation activities. We believe that the needs of people using public services, especially those who are hardest to reach, are best met by experienced, local, passionate and mission-driven organisations.

The Charity takes a uniquely comprehensive approach to fulfilling its mission, covering the spectrum from prevention to recovery; including providing residential and non-residential treatment and recovery programmes, supporting families and children through a variety of interventions, as well as training professionals to work to a higher standard than ever before, commissioning research and engaging in advocacy, particularly against the stigma that so unhelpfully attaches to its beneficiaries.

The Charity is privileged to enjoy the patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge which not only brings benefits to Action on Addiction but also to the cause of disarming addiction as a whole.

Action on Addiction is keen to retain its independence in order to best serve its beneficiaries. This allows creativity in its search for more effective ways to disarm addiction. For example, the Brink in Liverpool, the UK’s first charity-owned alcohol free bar/cafe and entertainment

Addaction was originally founded in 1967 as a parents' self-help group called the Association for the Prevention of Addiction (APA). APA became a Registered Charity and Private Company Limited by guarantee on 06 February 1991. In 1997, APA was re-branded and re-launched as Addaction.
Addaction provides substance misuse treatment recovery services to adults, young people and their families. We manage over 120 services across the UK, employing over 1200 staff and providing services to 30,000 persons per year.

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

Arts Award offers qualifications to young people under 25 that develop their creativity, leadership and communication skills. Arts Award can be delivered by any service or setting offering arts, cultural or media activities, and can be embedded in a variety of youth-work focused projects or environments.

It provides a highly accessible framework for creative development, combining the appeal of the arts with the motivation of a qualification. Arts Award also provides an effective means to deliver key youth work, restorative justice and re-proration including supporting young people’s personal and social development, raising young people’s aspirations and ensuring all young people are able to participate and achieve in education or training.

Chance 2 Change is an 8 session group based programme, using the cognitive behavioural therapy to reduce negativity and marginalisation in our communities. Each group works intensively with up to 10 clients and seeks to nurture good where otherwise negative behaviour can become prevalent. We aim to make other interventions more effective and responsive by creating a solid foundation of emotional strength upon which other services can be used to build a complete and robust package of support.

Without tackling the underlying causes of why marginalisation exits in the first place it is very difficult to bring about lasting change and therefore it is necessary to alter the thinking patterns of participants before addressing the practical issues otherwise their underlying emotions will always cause conflict both in themselves and others. We believe and have demonstrated that change must start from within and we are best placed to deliver this.

Brathay programmes and community interventions focus on using proven techniques in youth development such as transactional analysis and NLP to forge real change in young lives.
We seek to engage with the reform of rehabilitation and potential partners for delivery of solutions. We have bases for operations across North West England and in Yorkshire and our programmes are replicable across the UK. We have a flexible, scalable and economical delivery capacity. We want to talk to potential partners including prime contractors and other tier 2 and 3 deliverers.
We have proven expertise in delivering effective programmes for diverse groups such as :
• Young people at risk of offending/custody
• Gang members/violent offenders
• Troubled families engagement/intervention
• Young women at risk of exploitation
• NEET to EET provision
• Building resilience
• Care leavers, ex-service personnel and other vulnerable groups
All we do is supported by research and evidence.

Care-Connect is one of 14 Innovation hubs in the University of Leeds. The overall aim of the hub is to connect research with policy and practice and to support the creation and sustainability of caring, connected communities. We do this from a social, economic, health, legal and environmental perspective.

Perhaps the best way to view Care-Connect is that it acts as a bridge between the academics and their research at the University and external stakeholders such as Leeds City Council, the NHS and 3rd sector organisations. By bringing the two together we hope to both inform and explore the implications of policy and practice.

Catch22 is a social business, a not for profit business with a social mission. For over 200 years we have designed and delivered services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities.

Our 1600 colleagues work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting 44,000 individuals from cradle to career. Today we deliver alternative education, apprenticeships and employability programmes, justice and rehabilitation services (in prisons and in the community), gangs intervention work, emotional wellbeing and substance misuse, and children’s social care programmes.

e change the lives of people with mental health problems by using research to bring about better services and fairer policies and we support local providers to put the findings of research into practice.

The Centre’s qualitative research helps to understand the experiences of people with mental health problems and the profound importance that services and policies have on their lives. Our work is unique because it stands apart from academic and clinically focused research projects and trials. We have a mature programme of research and policy work around the criminal justice system that has developed over more than twenty years.

Our motivation is to emphasise people’s experiences, facilitate societal change and help those who can to create a world class mental health service in prisons. We have the authority, influence, and independence to successfully bring quality research to bear on local and national decision-making and practice.

Chance for Change is committed to enabling young adults to take responsibility for their future direction. We create opportunities that enable them to begin a journey of personal development in wilderness environments to broaden their horizons, realise their talents and acquire new skills which will give them the potential to take their place as the community leaders of the future. We put the focus on strengths not weaknesses; on assets not deficits and invest in young talent. As well as working in the UK, we also deliver programmes for marginalised communities in Nepal and Malawi.

CGL is a criminal justice, health and social care charity working with individuals, families and communities across England and Wales that are affected by drugs, alcohol, crime, homelessness, domestic abuse and anti-social behaviour. Our projects, delivered in communities and prisons, encourage and empower people to regain control of their lives and motivate them to tackle their problems. We also offer volunteering, peer mentoring and employment opportunities across England and Wales

Circles UK seeks greater public protection by working towards a substantial reduction in sexual offending, providing a range of services to local Circles of Support and Accountability providers. Further, it aims to develop greater public understanding of community approaches to public protection.

The Government is committed to a greater role for the third sector organisations in delivering public services. This means that if Third Sector organisations are to provide sustainable services over a period of time, they must ensure their commercial processes are efficient and effective. This is generally a difficult area as it requires commercial skills that many third sector organisations do not have.
Clarent can help third sector organisations meet these challenges, by using their commercial management expertise to undertake as much or as little of their commercial requirements as they need. We recognise that third sector organisations have limited funding and as part of our Corporate Social Responsibility programme, we offer substantial discounts to our normal prices for qualifying organisations, enabling them to be competitive and fulfil the efficiencies required by the Government

Clean Break uses theatre for personal and political change, working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system. The company's theatre-based education and training programme enables women offenders and those at risk of offending to develop personal, professional and creative skills leading to education and employment. We deliver a year-round theatre education programme with holistic support for women from across the 33 London boroughs. We also deliver theatre and playwriting residencies in women's prisons and leadership training for professionals working in the criminal justice system. We tour short plays on the theme of women and crime to cjs and related settings - conferences, training events etc with accompanying workshops to explore themes and issues affecting women offenders/women at risk. The plays are performed by women graduates of our theater education programme.We are also a professional touring theatre company taking plays to theatres and prisons

Clean Sheet is an independent, registered charity, with one simple purpose - to offer people with convictions the hope of a better future by finding real, permanent employment. We see the stigma of a prison record as unacceptable, each person deserves the chance to start again with a Clean Sheet. We want to see people released from the cycle of reoffending, through employment and social reintegration.

Our Employer Directory of over 140 national employers is only accessible by our work-ready members (ex-offenders. Employers agreeing to actively consider Clean Sheet members for employment, within the law, the terms of individual’s licence and their own Recruitment Policy. Our members know that these organisations are open to employing them. Clean Sheet Employers embrace the principle of second chances and are an active and growing group of organisations who want not only to support ex-offenders in their difficult journeys; but also, to take advantage of the skills potential on offer.

The Community Chaplaincy Association’s mission is to support and facilitate the development of a united network of local Community Chaplaincies supporting people in prison, through the gates and back into the community. Our members are local Community Chaplaincy projects across the UK.Community Chaplaincies work alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families, offering practical, social, relational and spiritual support within prison, through the gates and out in the community.

The work harnesses the extensive resources that are available within the faith communities, most particularly volunteers who give their time to support those who are seeking to make a fresh start after leaving prison. Community Chaplaincies are multi-faith and work with offenders of all faiths and none.

We believe that people and their communities have the right to live without crime and without the fear of crime. Our mission is to provide a means to detect, reduce and prevent crime through the provision of information about crimes and criminals to the law enforcement agencies from anonymous sources. “We welcome people from all walks of life, including those with offending histories, who would like volunteer their skills and experience with us, helping to promote our services and empower people to take positive action to stand up to crime.

We encourage people to give information about crime to us, through our 0800 555 111 phone number or online via www.crimestoppers-uk.org

Criminon UK is a registered charity delivering distance learning life skills courses in many UK prisons. We are members of LASER Learning Awards (formerly the Open College Network South East Region), and have four courses accredited. Our accredited course "Understanding and Overcoming Addiction", aligns with learning outcomes of the NOCN National Qualification Unit's 'Introduction to Drug Awareness', Level 1. Our other accredited courses deal with literacy at Entry Level 2 and Level 1 and a simple guide to better living and self-respect at Entry Level 2. Further life skills courses we offer deal with Parenting, Communication and Personal Integrity. We also offer a Mentor Course which gives the offender the skills to help others with their literacy and allows them to give something back, helping them achieve greater confidence and self-respect.

Crisis is the national charity for single homeless people. Our purpose is to end homelessness by rebuilding lives through housing, education and employment services. Our services for homeless ex-offenders aim to reduce reoffending by improving skills, employability and housing stability. Through a highly personalised approach, we provide one-to-one employment coaching, vocational training, job search skills and up to six months in-work support. Our pioneering job coaching model empowers clients to address the personal and structural barriers preventing them from achieving sustainable employment, thereby reducing their likelihood of re-offending. Clients have access to housing coaches who help them to find accommodation in the private rented sector (PRS).

In the past year in London, 52 people secured employment and 15 found sustainable PRS accommodation. Since the service began in April 2010, of the more than 300 people supported, only one has re-offended while using the service.