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.

A new, disruptive social enterprise, founded by trainers with solid experience of delivering the latest evidence based techniques in ways that build your confidence in applying them immediately and implementation support to make them work for you.
We believe in the dissemination of helping skills through translating and demystifying best practice. We are now some of a handful of trainers licensed to deliver ''The Mindful Effective Employee" - an evidence based workforce intervention shown to reduce workplace stress and improve mental health.

We encourage organisations to ensure that their staff are given opportunities to learn alongside those who use their services. Evidence shows this co-learning provides important benefits for all.

Access2Advice is a growing CIC, experienced in offering training and support to Category D prisoners. This training is augmented by offering opportunities to volunteer, which can then assist in finding employment.

The aim is to reduce reoffending in category D male prisoners within Derby and Derbyshire by addressing the key barriers to rehabilitation, such as improvement of self-confidence and motivation, improving transferable skills and employability, and by working with local businesses and the community to reduce stigma and discrimination. This is achieved through the 'breaking the cycle of re-offending' rehabilitation programme of training and support.

Current partners are APM, HMPPS.

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

Basis Yorkshire supports indoor and street sexworkers in Leeds with information and access to services including sexual health, housing, physical and mental health support, benefits, support regarding sexual and other forms of violence and advocacy on behalf of sexworkers. We also deliver a specialist one to one service for young people experiencing sexual exploitation and abuse in Leeds, Bradford and Hull. We also offer training nationally in all our areas of expertise and related areas and campaign for the rights of our service users.

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

Cardboard Citizens is a professional theatre company making Forum plays with and for the homeless or those at risk of homelessness. We run regular workshops and perform in hostels and prisons. Alongside these activities, we offer tailored information, advice and guidance with a focus on education, employment and training, but we also signpost to other agencies. We also have a youth theatre programme for 16- to 25-year-olds. You can refer to us at any time of year and also book us for free Forum Theatre performances in your prison.

We also provide The Art of Engagement training to organisations and staff, using tried and tested theatre-based techniques to enable staff to engage in a more meaningful way with their clients.

The CLA works with all care leavers over the age of 16. We are guided by the views of our membership and thus hav0a wide range of areas of interest and activity. However, our work can be grouped into five main areas:

•User Led Support - A Network Project, group support, social networking site and virtual mechanisms to help people connect.
•Projects - Areas of work with specific outcomes – young people, access to records, speaking out, media.
•Training and Assessment - We work with a wide range of organisations to improve service delivery to care leavers through training and quality assessment.
•Advice, information and signposting - Focus on informing care leavers about their rights through signposting to additional support services and developing our guides and fact sheets while providing some individual casework.
•Research, Policy and Campaigns - We conduct, collate and promote research about care leavers

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.

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.

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.

Construction Works (CW) is an innovative, market driven, ‘not for profit’ Company with the sole aim of supporting the regeneration of the local and regional community. The company is dedicated to providing flexibly delivered quality learning and training opportunities to those seeking employment, to skill and up-skill across a diverse range of work areas. Operating as‘Cityworks’, (the brand) to reflect the diverse sectors,our team support a large number of unemployed people into sustainable employment. Our company vision “Delivering local jobs for local people through partnership and service excellence”.
Over the years CW has delivered a diverse range of successful programmes, both in partnership and contracted with public, private and voluntary organisations to source and support local people into employment.

We are a registered charity working with young people to help them access employment opportunities in the construction industry.

Conviction promotes the sound administration of justice and proper administration of the law for the public benefit by providing advocacy and assistance to members of the public, informing and educating policymakers, monitoring the abuses of Human Rights and obtaining redress for victims of human rights abuse within the criminal justice system in England & Wales.

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.

Support Network for user's and ex user's who are contemplating or have completed treatment at Thamkrabok Monastery in Thailand. We also provide preventative drug & alcohol education for adults and children.

Escaping Victimhood was founded in 2007 by criminal justice professionals, who saw that many victims of serious crimes (such as the murder of a child) had extensive and on-going needs that were not being met.

We deliver four day (plus a one day follow up day) residential workshops designed to enable participants to ‘understand the past and embrace the future’. We also inform those working with victims of serious crime about the impact of trauma in their lives.

Our programme was developed to address the issues and helps restore participants to a more 'normal' life. It is unique and is delivered by skilled and professional facilitators. They are overseen by a lead facilitator, who is a highly experienced victim liaison worker and ensures strong and safe leadership of the workshop. . The structure of the programme is psycho-educative and therapeutic (with a small t) in a generic rather than specific sense.

We provide housing support and complementary services to adult and young offenders, having developed specialist support services for MAPPA offenders, domestic violence perpetrators, PPOs, etc. to reduce reoffending. We provide peer mentors to work with offenders, and aim to provide employment opportunities for our customers within our services.