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CAN is a multi-layered organisation that supports the development of children & young people to reach their full potential through Cultural Education, Creative Practice & Civic Leadership as a catalyst for cultural, social & economic change. Our mission is to support vulnerable C&YP facing multiple and complex disadvantages to have the right to access new experiences & opportunities to live a fulfilling life, that builds a brighter future in the Black Country (Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall & Wolverhampton) & the surrounding areas of the West Midlands.
To achieve our mission, we have set five core goals/service delivery:
- C&YP can access & engage in arts, culture, heritage, media & sport.
- C&YP can engage in education, employment & volunteering.
- C&YP can access recreational leisure time provision.
- C&YP become motivated, self-aware, receptive, resilient, responsible, confident and good communicators.
- C&YP can access support, advice & training in the local community.

Grow Inspires supports social inclusion through entrepreneurship. We believe that rehabilitation requires a holistic approach that changes mindset and motivation to work with society rather than against it. Our Lottery funded programmes start with the strengths and aspirations of individuals and channel them into the best way to make legitimate money from their skills. Rather than teaching participants about enterprise, we empower them through entrepreneurship, providing highly practical coaching to develop a sustainable business. Our model uses group coaching where participants provide mutual support and learn from each other.

We also coach business people to become mentors for young entrepreneurs and source mentors for our participants from outside the offender community to improve integration with the outside world.

Our vision is for people of all ages to be safe, building ambitions for the future and reaching towards their full potential.

Our Mission -
Humankind creates services and support to meet people’s complex health and social needs, helping them to build healthier lives that have meaning and value for themselves and their families. We support local people to create stronger, better-connected communities.

Our Values -
Honest: We are open and realistic, building trusted relationships in which we challenge, collaborate and change
Committed: we are passionate about being the best that we can be, and we do this by keeping people at the heart of everything that we do
Inventive: we are ambitious, drawing together skills and resources to innovate and adapt in determined pursuit of our mission.

Inspire North was formed in October 2018 and is the parent company of two long-standing charities in Yorkshire and the North East - Foundation and Community Links. Together, we have over 30 years of experience supporting the most marginalised people in our communities. Foundation's original service offering was accommodation for ex-offenders. Today, our organisation has grown to encompass support for adults, young people and families through a diverse range of services that promote social inclusion: homelessness prevention; domestic abuse (victims and perpetrators); care leavers; multiple and complex needs. We continue to specialise in accommodation and support for ex-offenders; we have relationships with over 100 private sector landlords, are a registered social landlord, and have an established Social Lettings Agency - Foundation Living. Community Links are an award-winning mental health charity pioneering a wide range of life-changing health and wellbeing services across the North.

Penrose is a charity that has been supporting people with complex needs for 50 years. As a Tier 2 provider for London CRC, we currently deliver the following high-performing services:

• Resettlement support to 6,000 men per year in 4 male prisons
• Community supervision of 2,500 men sentenced to less than 12 months, with our Responsible Officers based in every London borough
• Job Fairs that bring together a range of employers and trainers, providing service users a one-stop shop of live opportunities, CV and disclosure workshops and interview technique classes

Outside of our probation work, we deliver a wide range of residential and floating support services across London, Brighton and Bedfordshire, with a particular focus on mental health (including forensic), substance misuse and complex needs.

We operate a social enterprise household mill shop, recycling centre and 'unpaid work'/'conditional caution' supervision.

Based in Elland, Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorskhire. Cover Calderdale, Kirklees and Bradford.

Opportunities for unpaid work include retail, warehouse, driver's mate and recycling/reuse tasks.

This supports our charity that provides:
- support for families & individuals affected by addiction.
- personal development training (Self Esteem/Confidence Building, Conflict Resolution and Anger Management, Admittance, Acceptance, Amends, Problem Solving, Dealing with anxiety, stress & depression, Emotional development, Goal setting and attainment)
- Home Starter Packs for people fleeing domestic violence, leaving prison, homeless etc.

Resource Creatives design, create and deliver diverse arts based interventions using restorative approaches and creative engagement techniques. We work with freelance creative professionals to deliver projects to adults, children & young people within the criminal justice sector or on the cusp of criminality.

Recent work includes:
- 9month art based project in a Female PIPE Approved Premises which culminated in a book of art, poetry, writing to be sent to all female prisons in early 2019.
- Delivery of a Serious and Organised Crime programme 'Liberate' across Lancashire to Probation Approved Premises, YOT's, schools and PRU's
- Making Positive Choices' workshops to support children and young people keeping away from gangs.
- Child on parent violence programmes to families for Cumbria OPCC & Restorative Solutions
- 'How to use Restorative Approaches in practice': creative training for recently trained RJ practitioners

The Social Interest Group (SIG) was formed as a charity in 2014. Its sole aim is to be a vehicle to develop and strengthen the charities that are within it, so they in turn thrive and do social good. Our members include Penrose Options and Equinox Care.

As a Tier 2 provider for London CRC, we currently deliver the following high-performing services:

• Resettlement support to 6,000 men per year in 4 male prisons
• Community supervision of 2,500 men sentenced to less than 12 months, with our Responsible Officers based in every London borough
• Job Fairs that bring together a range of employers and trainers, providing service users a one-stop shop of live opportunities, CV and disclosure workshops and interview technique classes

Outside of our probation work, we deliver a wide range of residential and floating support services across London, Brighton and Bedfordshire, with a particular focus on mental health (including forensic), substance misuse and complex needs.

Tap Social Movement is an Oxford-based craft brewery and community space set up to train and employ people currently serving or recently released from prison sentences.

We provide supported accommodation, general counselling and advice including peer support. We support with physical and mental health issues, addiction, family support, volunteering opportunities and access to education, training and employment.

Qualifications, achievement and progress are often only conventionally recognised. The Safe House supports people to do well, even if they are not ‘conventional’ themselves. The Safe House mission is to bring particular and specialist experience and expertise to supporting people who are disadvantaged by the demands of attending school, college or university and in achieving recognised qualifications.

Activity at The Safe House focuses on:

- advice and guidance for study, employment and empowerment.
- language, literacy and learning support.
- creative writing support.
- personal presentation skills development.
- stress-relief based therapy and counselling.
- teacher / facilitator workshops.
- books and online resources and opportunities.
- creative and innovative project development and delivery.

We exist to to support the rehabilitation of prisoners, in particular but not exclusively to those who are or have previously been prisoners at HMP Wandsworth. This is mainly through mentoring and befriending. We work alongside the Wandsworth prison resettlement department through our local and national faith and community networks.

1) The rehabilitation of ex-offenders and the prevention of crime and anti social behaviour, in particular but not exclusively, by:
A) Facilitating their integration and constructive engagement in society;
B) The provision of support, information and advocacy for ex-offenders, those at risk of offending and the victims of crime; and
C) The promotion and development of best practice models of integrated offender management.
2) The promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.