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Our main aim is to assist with the effective resettlement of prisoners. We find ways to promote prisoners' family ties and enhance the visiting experience of their children. We raise funds to support the prison in ways not paid for by normal public funding.

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.

The Jigsaw Visitors’ Centre is a registered charity that works in partnership with prisons to manage family services and offer support to those visiting their loved ones.

Equipped with a tea bar, a play area, toilets, baby changing facilities, free Wifi, a free phone to call a taxi and a friendly bunch of staff members, Jigsaw welcome’s all families into our community. Find out more about our Services.

Here at Jigsaw, we understand that prisoners’ families are just as affected by imprisonment as prisoners are so we aim to make that experience easier for all those effected. We achieve this by providing a secure and welcoming environment for families to not only maintain ties, but to strengthen them through a variety of courses that develop parenting, communication, and employability skills.

Our Family Support Workers are on hand to help you and put you in touch with appropriate organisations who can help you deal with the issues which can arise with a loved one in custody. Visit our Support section for more information.

Nepacs and its forerunners have been working in the north east of England to to support a positive future for prisoners and their families for over 135 years. Since 1882, the structure of the organisation and our services have changed, but NEPACS’ commitment to helping people affected by imprisonment remains constant.

Nepacs staff and volunteers offer a range of services including prison visitors' centres and tea bars, play sessions for prisoners' children, youth projects, family support, parenting and relationship programmes and support within the Teesside courts, Newcastle and Durham Crown Courts. In our visitors centres our teams support first time visitors and working with CRCs we help prisoners and their families to prepare for release. For professionals in the north east Nepacs also offers advice and support in their work with families of prisoners through the delivery of Hidden Sentence training, awareness sessions and liaison with our family support workers or youth team.

Ormiston Families is a charity supporting children, young people and their families across the East of England, including children and families affected by imprisonment. We work in 11 of the region's prisons and young-offender institutions, offering community support for children and young people in Bedfordshire and Essex.

The People in Partnership Consortium (PiP) is a consortium of Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations in Wolverhampton. It is a Social Enterprise made up of VCS non-delivery partners that bids for and delivers public sector contracts through a supply chain of quality assured local VCS member organisations. PiP can also be seen as a new public service funding and delivery model for Commissioners and an investment opportunity for Investors.

POPS is a user-led charity supporting families through their contact with the criminal justice system as a result of a loved one’s conviction. POPS focuses on strengthening relationships within families and between families and their communities. We aim to help individuals overcome stigma, understand their identity, build self-confidence/skills and contribute to a more cohesive society.
We achieve this through a range of prison-based and community focused support services including: Family Support Services delivered at 11 prisons across the North-West/Yorkshire; ‘Through the Gate’ support for prisoners and their families; community-based support for women through POPS’ Women’s Centre (Oldham); community-based interventions for prisoners from BAME backgrounds; training for professionals; restorative practice programmes and community-based support for families attached to the CRC’s Intensive Community Order (generating £6.52 of economic/social value for every £1 spent).

Pact is a national charity that provides support to prisoners, people with convictions and their families. We support people to make a fresh start, and minimise the harm that can be caused by imprisonment to people who have committed offences, to families and to communities.

Pact works in over 65 prisons and 8 CRCs and provides prison-based family engagement workers, visitors’ centres, visitor support, supervised play, catering and family activities, relationship and parenting education programmes, court and community family support, ‘Through the Gate’ family resettlement support and community based mentoring and befriending programmes.

We also run the HMPPS contracted National Prisoners' Families Helpline which can be reached 7 days a week on 0808 808 2003.

Safer Wales is an independent charity based in Cardiff. We work across Wales and manage a range of different projects which support some of the most vulnerable, and excluded in Welsh communities. We developed the Womens Turnaround service which worked with women who offend, or risk of offending. We manage the Streetlife project, which works with women who are exploited through streetbased prostitution. We provide an outreach team and a supported housing project. We developed the Womens Safety Unit which provides Independant Domestic Violence Advisor to work with high risk victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence. We developed and manange the first service for for male victims of domestic abuse in Wales, Dyn project. We have a human exploitation project which has developed a pathway, and information protocol for people who are trafficked.

160,000 children each year have a parent in prison. At Spurgeons, our aim is to improve the lives of those children and their families who are affected by a parent being in prison. Our prisoner and family support services across England allow children to visit their loved ones in a friendly environment and our mentoring and support programmes give young people the change to reduce negative behaviours and build a better future.
We work in the heart of communities, delivering a range of high quality, flexible services for those affected by imprisonment and offending. These include; running Prison Visitors’ Centres; mentoring - pre and post release; family days; parenting Programmes in prisons; Family Support Programmes for offenders and their families; through the gate support and family re-integration; community support services for families of offenders; and training for partner organisations.

The Wise Group work in partnership with the Scottish Prison Service delivering award winning Mentoring Services and Work in the North East HMPs delivering Through the Gate services and specialist Mentoring services.

Tomorrow’s Women Wirral (TWW) is a Charity for all women aged 18+ It has a commitment to reduce offending and provide support and assistance to those women who have never entered the Criminal Justice System but who want to make positive lifestyle changes. The women who attend are not judged and integrate to support and share skills and experiences. We are open Monday-Friday and have a full timetable of courses that address women’s needs. See attached. We have approx 700 visits per week and have received 5600 referrals since opening.

TWW offers space in a safe women only environment so 180 partners/agencies can access and work with women, who may have multiple complex problems, who they have trouble reaching.

TWW hosts Purple Futures and National Probation Service who have a dedicated team of offender managers based within who supervise all female offenders subject to Community Orders and Licenced conditions.

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.