Partnership Finder

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.

Reset is a Big Lottery funded support service that assigns volunteer mentors to work within Kent & Medway prisons or approved hostels: supporting ex-offenders who will be resettling within Kent & Medway.
Every individual's experience of release if unique and thus we aim to provide a service that reflects the challenges that they face during reintegration to the community.
We work in partnership with existing agencies to help offenders and ex-offenders become valued members of society. The initiative was developed in response to the challenges faced by many ex-offenders when they tried to begin a new life after release from prison and to the high level of interest from numerous community organisations in helping with resettlement.
Where we work: In prisons and probation hostels (before release), Through the gate (on release), Within the community (after release)

There are two different ways that you can refer, either through a self-referral or through a professional.

Please feel free to contact Stephen Wait on 07475521854 or email stephen.wait@kenwardtrust.org.uk for any more information or to ask any questions.

Leap works with young people aged 11-25, training them to understand and manage conflict in their lives and communities. We also train the adults who work with them.

We have 20 years’ experience in researching, designing and delivering programmes that support those in the criminal justice system, including young offenders, prisoners and prison staff.

We support individuals to understand their relationship with conflict and to bring about behavioural changes. We also develop programmes for organisations, YOIs and prisons to support wider cultural changes and a common understanding and approach towards managing conflict.

Our interventions help young offenders to recognise the consequences of their actions, improve their strategies for resolving conflict and make different choices. Through this behavioural change young people start to think before reacting to situations, which reduces the likelihood of offending or reoffending and supports their rehabilitation and settlement post-custody.

New Horizon Youth Centre is a day centre based in Somers Town, Kings Cross working with young vulnerable people from backgrounds of disadvantage and destitution. Our Creating Positive Futures Project works specifically with Youth Offenders and young people Leaving Care from throughout London and the UK. We provide an avenue of change for 2,000 vulnerable young people each year. We make that change positive. We prevent the situation from worsening and provide the opportunity at a crisis point for people to make positive choices and positive changes. Our outreach works includes street outreach, work in prison, resettlement support and preventative work in schools. We provide a flexible response, supporting vulnerable people whose needs are not being adequately met through local or national strategies at any particular time and those who are destitute, with no statutory entitlement at all. We work with young people who are gang affiliated to secure safe accommodation and services.

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 with convictions, 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 seven days a week on 0808 808 2003.

Remedi is a restorative justice organisation delivering restorative interventions to youth and adult offenders, including victim-offender mediation, mentoring, victim awareness training and victim advocacy and support. We also deliver restorative approaches in schools and train other professionals in restorative practice.

Safer London delivers a range of prevention, diversion and intervention projects for young Londoners involved in gangs and youth crime, especially the victims of gang crime and those looking to make a positive transition to crime-free lives.
Our key programmes:
Empower - A multi-strand holistic framework to tackle gang-related sexual exploitation in priority London boroughs. It involves 1:1 advocacy and support for victims, schools-based group work with young women and young men, specialist training for professionals and parenting workshops.
Aspire - A pan-London 1:1 skills development programme supporting young people aged 16-25, predominantly ex-offenders or those on the margins of criminality. The programme focuses on job-readiness skills development to aid transition into sustainable employment, education or training, thereby reducing the likelihood of re-offending.
Safe & Secure - An intensive high-level gang exit, relocation and life-transformational programme.

THOMAS provides residential and community-based substance misuse rehabilitation, recovery and resettlement services in Blackburn, Salford, Lancashire and Manchester. We work closely with prisons, CRCs and the National Probation Service. We have a residential rehabilitation unit, Witton Bank, Blackburn, and a PHE funded “Gateways” abstinent recovery house for men leaving prison. In Salford we have a residential rehabilitation house for men and one for women, with move on abstinent houses. We are fully CQC and Supporting People compliant and have NHS Information Governance Toolkit level 3.
We support 500 people at a time. We have 20 years experience of working with offenders, many of whom are prolific and persistent offenders, with sustained addictions and complex life stories. We have a large network of peer mentors, who have completed programmes with us, and are now supported to mentor others just beginning recovery. Some go on to work for THOMAS, including at management level.

Women in Prison is a national charity, dedicated to making a difference to the lives of women affected by the criminal justice system by providing holistic, women-centred support in prisons and the community in order to enable them to meet their resettlement needs and reduce the risk of re-offending. We also educate the public and policy makers about women in contact with the criminal justice system, to promote alternatives to custody and provide a voice for women’s experiences.