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Access Community Trust is based in Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth and Thetford and works with people who may be homeless, vulnerable and suffering from social exclusion. We believe that everyone, irrespective of their background and circumstances, is entitled to live in a decent home, enjoy positive and rewarding relationships with others, engage in some meaningful activity and achieve their maximum potential.

We work with hundreds of vulnerable and disadvantaged clients in our communities, providing six supported housing units, an information, advice and guidance drop-in centre, education and training services including work with schools and a youth-led project, an employment mentoring recruitment service and a dual diagnosis mental health service. Our services support men, women, families, single mothers and young people (16+) and our ultimate aim is to help people to attain independent living and personal fulfilment within their community.

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

Priority one is to work with young people with emotional and social difficulties and young offenders. We offer curriculum, behaviour and social development. We employ qualified teachers, learning support workers and mentors to support them in reducing risky behaviour and changing harmful patterns of behaviour.
Priority is to support the broader community through a series of short courses which promotes basic life skills:
Personal Development Programmes, Health and Wellbeing, Employability Skills, parenting skills and family workshops. We promote community engagement and cohesion with regular community activities such as community gardening, employability day and health and wellbeing day.
We run women's only courses such as ESOL and BAME specific workshops. Preparation for Employment an further training with workshops in interview Skills, CV writing, work experience, business start up and community enterprise.

Anglia Care Trust (ACT) is a charity dedicated to supporting vulnerable people, having worked with offenders, ex-offenders and their families for over 40 years. There are 3 core themes to our work: Helping people to keep a roof over their heads; Helping people to be heard; Helping people to feel safe.

In achieving this, we deliver a range of interconnected support services, inclusive of: Intensive Support; Floating Support; Advice; Guidance; Advocacy; Mediation; Housing; Alcohol Recovery; and Domestic Abuse Services.

Birth Companions is a unique charity which supports women experiencing severe disadvantage during pregnancy, birth and early parenting. We are the UK’s leading organisation working in this area, with widely acknowledged expertise in the needs of pregnant women and new mothers facing severe disadvantage both in prison and the community.

The women we support face a range of issues and challenges including mental health problems, substance misuse, a history of domestic and sexual violence, trafficking, experience of detention and human rights violations overseas. They are particularly vulnerable during their pregnancies due to the effects of poor health, poverty, lack of support from family and friends as well as isolation.
Our overall aim is to empower women and help them to give their babies best possible start in life.

We also seek to raise awareness and to influence changes in policy and practice to improve conditions for the women we work with.

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

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.

We work in both rural and urban areas across the county of Hertfordshire. We provide infrastructure support to all communities plus host diverse Networks: Rural Issues, Village Halls X 4, and Community Energy. We deliver the Play Area Scheme in HMP The Mount; Community Garden St Albans. We also provide training to enable people to enter the labour market. We provide consultancy services: Health & Safety; Risk Assessments, Finance; Business advice - sustainability and workforce development.

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 a national charity, part of the Langley House Trust Group, offering people with convictions the hope of a better future by finding real, permanent employment. We are a Christian charity working with people of all faiths and none. In collaboration with employers, prisons and community-based organisations, we supported 347 people into work in 2019.

Our online Employers Directory has over 110 Clean Sheet organisations who agree to actively consider Clean Sheet Members (people with convictions) for employment, within the law, the terms of the individual’s licence and their own Recruitment Policy.

Members receive exclusive access to the directory and can apply to roles with a Clean Sheet Employer knowing that they will look beyond the stereotype and consider applications on merit, skills and experience. Members are also supported by our team who provide advice and encouragement for as long as it takes them to find work, as well as 12 months after employment is secured.

We recruit, train and supervise Volunteer Mentors to offer both sides of the gate support to people coming out of prison, to live in Norfolk. Our Mentors offer tailored one-to-one practical and emotional support to Clients before during and after their transition back into the community. We assist with seeking accommodation, managing finances and accessing benefits, making behavioural change (e.g. addictions, anti-social activities), taking part in positive activities (including employment, volunteering or training), improving relationships and peer networks and support people to make internal change (hope, motivation, self-worth, confidence, managing emotions). We provide advocacy support and accompany clients to appointments with other statutory and voluntary sector organisations. Our work is not time limited and we support Clients and Mentors of all faiths and none.

CLI works to support offenders and those in recovery from substance misuse to rebuild their lives and re-integrate into the community. Our volunteer mentors provide support with practical issues as well as motivating our service users to overcome the obstacles they face and look to a brighter future.

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.

Develop was established in 1996, as a company limited by guarantee and a not for profit organisation. The organisation provides a quality innovative service to employers, schools, colleges, communities and volunteers who need help, support, information, advice and guidance.

Our mission is to bridge the gap between individuals, learning organisations and businesses to enhance employability skills and develop potential. We aim to offer access of opportunity to all those individuals we work with and support them to achieve their goals. Develop are currently funded via the National Careers Service, Careers Inspiration in Custody contract to deliver a range of activities in custody. This includes providing employer-led events for HMP Leicester, Bedford and Woodhill and ex offender alumni sessions in prisons across the East Midlands and Central Eastern Region.In addition we also provide Study Programme and Adult provision to all, including ex-offenders

Doorway Women's Services provides specialist support to sex workers and women who have experienced sexual exploitation and coercion. We recognise that women who experience multiple disadvantage and sexual violence face many barriers to accessing support due to stigma and predjudice and lack of understanding of the impact of trauma. Doorway provides gender and trauma informed intensive one to one holistic support and advocacy around identified needs, through the gate support, outreach services, drop-in, specialist Independent Sexual Violence Advisor service, safety and sexual health advice. Doorway Women's Service also provides tailored support around transition age 18-25yrs for young women who have experienced sexual violence and exploitation.

Set up as a charity in 1984, Druglink’s objective is to have a significant and positive impact on the lives of those who use substances (drugs / alcohol), their families and the communities in which they live. Druglink achieves this aim by providing a diverse range of both proactive and responsive services, which target three key areas: Prevention, Recovery and Reintegration.

Druglink take an active role in education and currently run scheduled and bespoke training courses to a diverse client base. Druglink view education as key to prevention.

For those who have already been affected by substance use, whether their own or a family members’, Druglink run a number of projects aimed at easing and supporting recovery. Druglink view personalised support as the key to recovery.

Once in recovery, it’s essential for individuals to develop the skills and confidence needed to enable them to re-enter society. Working with a number of other agencies and

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.