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BF Adventure, established in 1989, has developed a well-equipped and fully accessible 60-acre activity centre (“Goodygrane”) with four flooded granite quarries set in woods and heathland on the rural outskirts of Penryn. From this central location the charity, also constituted as a limited company, delivers programmes to challenge and inspire around 4,000 people throughout Cornwall each year.

Its experienced and highly motivated team of instructors and volunteers use these exciting outdoor resources to support children and adults who experience multiple disadvantage including difficulties which stem from physical, mental, behavioural and/or learning difficulties. Through a vast range of activities ranging from archery, abseiling and bushcraft to watersports and the zipwire, the team supports and monitors participants in building confidence and self-esteem, developing life skills - with accreditations as appropriate – to promote engagement and positive change.

Career Connect is a charity whose core business is the provision of all-age careers information, advice, guidance and support. We enable people to make realistic choices, based on sound information, to help them achieve their potential in learning, training and employment. Established in 2001, we deliver services across NW England providing: The National Careers Service across NW NOMS CFO 3 contract for NW of England through our wholly owned subsidiary Achieve NW Connect. We deliver a programme that prepares and supports offenders into employment with a 32% sustained outcome rate. Careers information, advice and guidance services for young people (formerly badged as Connexions) across Greater Merseyside and Salford. Unlocking Potentiala social impact bond funded programme to support 4200 young people with behavioural, moderate mental health and wellbeing issues prepare for and enter the world of work. We also have staff embedded in Trouble Families teams and an adviser in Hindley YOI.

Caritas Care's ACE (Assisted Community Engagement) Project provides an assisted seamless transition from custody to community and reduces the risk of reoffending by ensuring that essential needs are met without it being necessary to revert to a life of crime. Support is provided by volunteers and paid staff to address their needs, as identified by NOMS.

Contracts Matter is a Consortium of approx 20 charities and social enterprises. It is resourced by NOMS CFO Capacity Building programme and includes partners such as The Cyrenians, Shaw Trust, Margaret Carey Trust, User Voice and other organisations that provide a range of specialist support services.
The Consortium has been set up to secure opportunities and deliver services primarily in the North East of England but many partners have experience of delivering services across the country.

Crafting Relationships develop and manage creative projects with social benefits. We work with a wide range of vulnerable groups including ex-offenders, people using mental health and learning disability services, older people (including those living with age related diseases) children and alcohol groups.

Our work spans the arts and projects include comedy, animation, training artists to work in healthcare settings, drop-in mental health groups, literature and spoken word with young black men in the mental health system, and also inter-generational sessions.

East West Organization offers a unique choice of holistic interventions for the prevention, treatment and recovery from addictions and attachments. The charity also provide a range of educational and preventative services for children and adults including mindfulness meditation to deal with relapsing conditions, such as stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, pain and depression which can often lead to alcohol, illicit drug and medication dependency.

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.

Fair Shares runs Time Banks in Gloucestershire which focus on two way volunteering which is explained more fully below. We began our work with the prison estate with HMP Gloucester and this successful partnership continued for six years, until the prison closed in 2013. We are currently working with HMP Leyhill, HMP Erlestoke and HMP Eastwood Park and are developing work with HMP Dartmoor. Time Banking is a great way of engaging with all members of our communities and benefits on a number of social, health and economic levels. Our participants in the prisons are either involved in Times2, our Maths peer mentoring scheme or volunteer for other organisations and use time banking to add extra value to the work that they already undertake.
Time Banking is a system of two-way volunteering; for every hour of your time you put in, you earn an hour of help in return or you can decide to give those hours to help those in the community who need extra support via the goodwill pot.

Genesis is a leading UK housing association and provider of care and support services. With 40 years experience our care and support services reach vulnerable people in London, East Anglia and South East enabling full and independent lives. Services include:Integrated Offender Management Services (helping offenders reintegrate into communities),24 hour emergency on call service provision for vulnerable customers, Services for Learning Disability, Mental Health and Homelessness. We run a successful Supporting Treatment and Accommodation and Recovery (STARs) project in Suffolk, providing good quality flats for vulnerable single people who are homeless,unsuitably housed or being released from prison. Housing advice & advocacy runs in conjunction with an intensive support recovery programme which is centred around tailored individual recovery plans. We have indepth knowledge of the accommodation options available throughout the county and understand the barriers facing clients.

Our approach targets the underlying cognitive causes of neuro-differences such as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Aspergers, AD(H)D. Although literacy remains a problem for many neurodiverse adults, the memory and processing difficulties that create literacy barriers also affect: time management; following instructions; learning new processes; communication; completing forms and self-organisation. These issues affect how you interact with authority, making you appear lazy and demotivated. This impacts on education and employability, and social inclusion in general.
Genius Within CIC helps people to acknowledge that their weaknesses need not be the limit of their potential; being neurodiverse means having a pattern of ability as well as disability. We are able to steer our clients towards working to their strengths.
Through participating in our programme, offenders will be able to make “every contact matter” by taking responsibility for their needs and learning styles.

Groundwork North East helps people and organisations make changes in order to create better neighbourhoods, to build skills and job prospects, and to live and work in a greener way.

Groundwork in North Wales helps people across North Wales to create better neighbourhoods and build their skills and job prospects as well as living and working in a greener, sustainable way. Groundwork North Wales focuses activity on disadvantaged communities, creating opportunities that benefit people and the wider environment.

Hafal (meaning 'equal') is the principal organisation in Wales working with individuals recovering from serious mental illness and their families. As a member led Charity, we were founded 20 years ago on the belief that people who have direct experience of mental illness know best how services can and should be delivered. Providing support across all 7 local health board areas of Wales and delivering over 76 projects, Hafal is dedicated to empowering people with serious mental illness and their families to:
• Achieve a better quality of life.
• Fulfill their ambitions for recovery.
• Fight discrimination.
• Enjoy equal access to health and social care, housing, income, education, and employment.

Joint Activities Service and Bradford Motor Education Project merged in 2010 to become Joint Activities and Motor Education Service (J.A.M.E.S.). Between the two charities we have over 50 years experience of working with ‘at risk’ and ‘disadvantaged’ young people and families in the Bradford and Keighley district. We deliver an array of programmes and services to young people aged 12-25 as well as work with families and local communities.

To provide an effective, caring and understanding environment where young people and families can overcome disadvantage and lack of provision to achieve their full potential in life through the enthusiastic delivery of relevant education, training and leisure opportunities. To enhance the quality of life in local communities through the development of community safety and regeneration strategies. To support local and national government strategies which enhance opportunities for young people.

The National Consortium of Social Enterprises (NCSE) is led by 3SC in partnership with Social Firms UK and Social Enterprise UK. The NCSE consists of hundreds of established or aspiring social enterprises across the UK. Our mission is to ‘improve the ability of the social enterprise sector to participate in the delivery of criminal justice and other public services, and increase its share in the actual delivery of such services’. The NCSE offers a single-point-of-contact approach, unprecedented flexibility and responsiveness in terms of scale, geography, services and specialist expertise and it positions us as a go-to-provider for all contracting needs where social enterprises can make a difference.

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.

Prison Learning TV is a major project from The Prison Video Trust that aims to transform personal development and learning opportunities for serving prisoners by delivering a multi-platform TV channel to prisons across the country that supports re-settlement, reduces re-offending, improves employability, increases literacy and numeracy and enhances life-skills.

Creative collaboration with a diversity of stakeholders sits at the heart of Prison Learning TV. If you are interested in exploring a collaborative film project development with us please get in touch.

Established in 1996 as Restore 50 plus by 5 serving older prisoners, Restore Support Network provides peer support to older people due for release from prison. Restore also offer lifelong befriending to those committed not to re-offend and to become active citizens in their local communities. Of over 370 people who have received peer support over past 10 years less than 8% have re-offended or been recalled. Restore also run peer mentor training programmes in the community and work in partnership with other local mentoring and caring agencies, such as The Pennisular Initiative, Footprints and Age UK. Restore represent service users on regional and national bodies and before the Parliamentary Justice Committee. Restore also carry out peer-led research and analysis of older offenders needs and concerns.

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.