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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

Changing Lives help vulnerable, disadvantaged and excluded people to make lasting changes in their lives. We have a total acceptance policy and are innovative, progressive and courageous in our work. We work holistically, combining appropriate services and support for each individual. Our support ranges from emergency intervention to training and employment.

ESCAPE Family Support provides support and interventions to drug and alcohol users and their families in Northumberland, including those involved in the Criminal Justice System.

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.

Geese Theatre Company is a team of professional theatre practitioners who present interactive drama and facilitate workshops, staff training and consultation in prisons, secure mental health settings, young offender institutions, and in the community with probation services, youth offending teams and related agencies. A registered charity based in Birmingham, Geese works throughout the UK and overseas and has gained an international reputation for innovative work with vulnerable and socially excluded groups, becoming widely acknowledged as one of the key organisations championing the role of arts in the criminal justice system and wider social welfare arena. Our work provides solutions to a range of criminogenic issues, primarily focussing on attitudes, thinking and behaviour and addressing themes such as domestic abuse, sexual offending, violence, resettlement, substance misuse and offending, self-efficacy, and employability.

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.

We work to organise a network of pastoral support for Muslim Chaplains and staff; to prepare, produce and recommend teaching materials and accredited courses; to provide mentoring and job shadowing services for Muslim Chaplains; and to engage the communities for the resettlement of prisoners and help to reduce reoffending. We also raise funds in order to pursue the MCA's activities.

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.

The Prisoners' Advice Service provides free legal advice and representation to adult prisoners in England and Wales regarding their rights, and regardless of the individual prisoners' means. PAS aims to educate and empower prisoners regarding the law and their legal and human rights.

REACH INSIDE is a charity that has been set up to help friends and family members of prisoners to REACH INSIDE and communicate easily with their loved ones.
Our POST–2–PRISON project allows anyone with online access to send a photo and a message to any UK prisoner completely free of charge.
All you need to do is visit our website (its mobile friendly too) and send your message, we will then print it and post it directly into prison.

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.

Shelter offers free, confidential and independent advice and information to people with housing-related problems. Its Prison Housing Advice Service covers Yorkshire & Humberside, the North-East and the North West regions, offering specialist advice through its network of housing advisers located in 26 local prisons. Shelter deliver housing related support to Probation Trusts in Essex and Northumbria and are members of the commissioning frameworks for Greater Manchester and Dorset Probation Trusts Partnership Frameworks.

SERIF is a social enterprise research organisation dedicated to social change and social justice. We are exploring the potential of social enterprise to contribute to a reduction in offending, both in the community and within the criminal justice system.

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.