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

The Arkbound Foundation works with people from disadvantaged backgrounds which include all protected characteristics, as well as poverty, deprivation, homelessness, alcohol and addictions, victims of abuse and any form of disadvantage.

We got founded by an ex-prisoner, we are equality and lived experience 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, and keep an open door to our beneficiaries to join us.

We are a Community Interest Company bringing business and IT skills to those who need it most. Our professional training is provided alongside dedicated learner support services to provide employment opportunities within local communities.

Our support services include online coaching, dedicated mentors, career advice and guidance and signpost services to other local community organisations specialising in a variety of areas. By partnering with local businesses we are able to provide work experience, work placements, volunteering opportunities and internships for all learners that complete a course with us.

Barnardo’s runs over 1,000 services for children and families in local communities across the UK. Our work includes reaching and helping children who have been sexually exploited, young people leaving the care system, children with a parent in prison and families struggling to cope. We find loving adoptive homes and foster placements for children in care.

Barnardo's delivers family engagement services and visit centres in Dorset and West Midlands, including evidence based parenting programmes, one-to-one case work, and innovative engagement programmes to support families of prisoners and relationships with significant others. We have specialist knowledge working with vulnerable groups including working with families of veterans who are in prison and extensive experience working with care leavers.

Change for Good is a resettlement charity based in London. We currently have mentoring programmes based in HMP Wandsworth and HMP Wormwood Scrubs that match guys with a trained volunteer who gets to know them in prison, meets them at the gate and supports them as they resettle back into society.

In the community we have our MAP (Members After Prison) project . MAP is a group that meets weekly. It is for men who want to stay out of prison and keep out. The group is run by the men themselves who become positive influences on each other provide mutual support. There is a monthly activity such as a visit to a museum, or a boat trip. The men take it in turns to cook healthy meals and the venue is located in central London.
The group aims to reduce isolation and to be a strong community for the men to belong to. The group is dynamic and the agenda is set by the men themselves. The only criteria is that you have spent time in custody and are serious about wan

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.

Family Action is a charity committed to building stronger families and brighter lives. We help individuals and communities address the challenges they face through practical, emotional and financial support. We support over 60,000 families and hundreds of thousands of children across the country each year through a wide range of national programmes and local services. Our work includes help for parents-to-be, parenting and relationship support, the provision of many nurseries and Children’s Centres in local communities, intensive family support, emotional health and wellbeing services, counselling, mediation and therapies, a range of mental health services including supported housing, wellbeing support in schools and GP surgeries, financial grants programmes and a range of training and consultancy services. We deliver support to women in the Mother and Baby Unit and pregnant women in HMP Styal.

Empowering, rehabilitation and supporting the community, through:

- The promotion of civic responsibility and good citizenship
- Advancing education and personal development
- Promote life-long learning and the development of the individual capabilities, skills and understanding in subjects of educational value
- Creating programmes which will rehabilitate young offenders

Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief (GESIPR) believes in empowering communities, groups and individuals that have been excluded from society
for one reason or the other and as a result are inhibited from exploring and attaining their full potentials as individuals and community assets.
We identify and serve people deeply affected by social injustice: domestic abuse survivors, ex-offenders, disadvantaged young people, the homeless, asylum seekers, and single parents and families living in poverty, who are falling through cracks in the
system without any other viable support. Our mission is to help these people and their communities access equal opportunities, harness their potential and regain their confidence and value. Our methods for helping them vary, as we take a holistic approach to solving problems. We aim to partner with existing services and voluntary agencies to fill gaps in service delivery for the communities in which we work.

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.

developmentplus is a community development charity based in Lincoln, It delivers a small number of 1-1 coaching and mentoring programmes including Bridging the Gap (BTG). BTG is a reducing re-offending project which supports men and women on release from prison into the Lincoln area providing an intensive mentoring service that covers all 9 pathways. It supports individuals with housing issues, benefit advise, relationship support, drug and alcohol support as well as many other areas. We address all issues at the same time and support individuals for as long as they need.

As an established charity with almost 50 years of experience, Nacro has been repositioning itself as a champion of social justice which continues to put crime prevention and reduction at its core.

We are evolving to meet society’s changing needs and support a wider range of individuals. We use our knowledge and experience to help the most vulnerable in the community to change their lives and to reach their full potential and aspirations. We do this by addressing social exclusion, inequality of opportunity and deprivation.

Throughout England and Wales we deliver interventions which are consistently high quality, evidence based and outcome focused so that we can maximise our impact in communities.

We offer a range of vocational courses that lead to qualifications and employment.

Pave the Way North East is a newly established company made up of small team of dedicated volunteers working with agencies and individuals in need. Those needs are assessed as and barriers that may cause social exclusion.

We advocate and listen to all individuals and agencies to negotiate better outcomes for all stakeholders. We are independent are not influenced by one sector rather we look to build strong relationships with all partners in society.

Individualised Support
Meeting our clients needs through Personalised Action Plan tailored to meet the long term needs of the individual. Providing staged interventions that are manageable.

Welfare Referrals
To work with Charities, Organisations and Agencies to provide access to basic needs and essential items to those without.

Group Support
Meeting with multi disciplinary teams to best meet there aims and provide better outcomes for the some of the North Easts underrepresented.

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 Restorative Justice for All (RJ4All) International Institute is a charitable NGO with a mission to advance community cohesion and human rights. We redistribute power in a more equal way by delivering social justice projects, educational programmes and high quality volunteering opportunities to the most marginalised groups of society.

We do this by using the power of education, sports and art, as well as the practices (mediation, conferencing, circles, dialogue, workshops) and values of restorative justice including power sharing, fairness, equality, dignity and respect.

Safer London is a leading London charity working with young Londoners and their families affected by violence and exploitation.
Through one to one intervention and targeted group work we’re supporting young Londoners to move onto the positive futures that they deserve. We put young Londoners at the centre of their support, focusing on them and their needs. By building strong, trusting relationships we gain an insight into their world, begin to understand what they need and together find the best ways to keep them safe.
Understanding that young Londoners’ lives are shaped by the world in which they live, we work not only with them and their families, but also their peer networks and directly within the community and the places where they live and spend their time.
With a footprint in every borough in London, we build trusting, professional partnerships to embed our approaches and work towards achieving our vision of a city that is safer for all the young Londoners who live here.