Partnership Finder

Redemption Roasters is a Coffee Wholesale company that also provides Barista skills education into prisons and opportunities for employment upon release. Our aim is to provide real usable skills that will benefit ex offenders as they seek meaningful employment after release.

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.

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.

Only Connect is London’s creative criminal justice charity, rooted in community. Our vision is a more connected, human and just society, where we all choose a crime free life.
The focus of our work is innovation to reduce re-offending. We work with Londoners aged 16+ with recent experience of the justice system, equipping them with the necessary skills, attributes and positive networks to develop and pursue their life goals without harm.

We work in prisons, across youth justice and through our unique Membership centres to deliver projects that build relationships, grow skills and cut crime. Our Membership model offers one single, seamless relationship from custody to community and into future prospects.

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.

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.

The RFEA's simple aim, since 1885, has been to help those leaving and those who have left the Armed Forces to find and to remain in employment throughout their working lives. We aim to make the client 'Job Ready' by signposting them to bespoke support required using our Nova Network of support and tracking this via our Nova Support team prior to finding them the right employment choice.
Project Nova is an early intervention scheme working in conjunction mainly with the Police and NHS dealing with Ex Military personnel who have been arrested or are on the periphery of doing so. Project Nova works with many partner organisations including HMPPS & CRCs and local authorities along with numerous military charities.

Step Together’s Ex-Offender Programme aims to reduce the number of ex-offenders in target areas who re-offend on leaving prison. We provide 1:1 support and match individuals with a cause and a specific voluntary role with which they identify, acting as a catalyst for change - improving personal skills, well-being and employability, and enabling them to be self-supporting and play a more active and engaged part in society on release.

Working on both sides of the prison gate, to ensure seamless progression from prison to community, the programme enables people who would otherwise be excluded from society to participate in positive and purposeful diversionary activity, improving integration, building a sense of belonging and involvement, a resilience to turn their back on the past, and opening significant opportunities for the future. The programme works with all offenders and ages, regardless of the offence committed.

Treasures Foundation exists to search out the treasures in female ex-offenders whose lives have been chaotic and marked by multiple and complex issues. We have 9 spaces in our supported housing in London.

Many of our women come from backgrounds of abuse, where they have turned to substance misuse and addiction. Often, they have lost their self-esteem, homes and families. The houses we provide are safe places where women get back on their feet after coming out of prison. Our objectives reflect this:

1) To provide a safe house to meet the housing needs of women exiting prison.

2) To improve the healthcare, education, life skills and well-being of the women through tailored care programmes.
3) To help the women on their journey towards independent living.
Without our work ex-offenders coming out of prison are at risk of falling back into chaotic lifestyles, of returning to domestic violence, drug and/or alcohol abuse and crime. This is in no one's interests.

Aims
The aims of the Hub were very similar to those of the VCP, namely:
•To provide a safe environment with a person centred, single point of focus for Armed Forces personnel, Service Leavers, Veterans and their families, all providing, timely, on-going, comprehensive and appropriate support/signposting through diverse and trusted providers
•Delivering an innovative wrap around service to veterans, identifying the various individual needs to find help to find work or training: – physical disability, poor mental health, problematic substance or alcohol abuse, homelessness, debt, ex offender and relationship breakdown.
•The model is both enabling and supportive, perceiving the wounded, injured and sick part of the veteran and service leaver’s community as an asset.

The Hub offers
Rapid access to:
•Bespoke employment and training information and advice
•Bespoke personalised support, mentoring and coaching
•Access to RBL Case Officer Service
•Access to RBL advice and information surgeries
•Access to RBL specialist services – Outreach officer service, War pensions & Armed Forces Compensation scheme (AFCS) advisor service – support with appeals.
•Access to SSAFA & RBL Home visiting casework service, for currently serving, those who have served their families and dependant
•Links and positive relationships with many other organisations, including NHS services, accommodation providers and employment courses
•Similarly, a close working relationship has grown with Help for Heroes (H4H). Seen as a partner organisation, the Hub is utilised as an outreach office to engage wounded, injured and sick (WIS) veterans, linking with the Recovery Centre, Endeavour House, HMS Drake, Plymouth and their Band of Brothers/Sisters projects

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.