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Adelaide House Female Approved Premises is an award winning establishment, one of the eleven independently managed Approved Premises(IAP)in the country - operationally indistinguishable from the National Probation Service(NPS)estate. We are run by a small charity based in Liverpool - Liverpool Diocese Council for Social Aid and have been in existence and working with under privileged women since 1823. We are a national resource being one of only six female AP facilities in the country and we primarily provide enhanced supervision, structure and support for high risk of harm and/or complex need women in the Criminal Justices System either on release from prison as a condition of licence or as a residential requirement of a Community Order. We also have a small number of voluntary beds which women at risk are able to access including an Emergency Domestic Violence Victim bed. We deliver a wide range of services working in partnership with both statutory and community agencies.

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

Belong London works with people who have offended and those who have been victims of crime in order to reduce crime and the harm it causes. Our approach to tackling crime involves supporting offenders to exit a life of crime and providing opportunities that help them play a positive role in society. We also support victims of crime to tackle and recover from injustices that have happened to them.

Our services include mentoring, group work and restorative justice programmes for children, young people and adults who have committed offences or been a victim of crime. We work with offenders both in custody and in the community.

Birmingham Community Development Scheme (BCDS) is a specialist organisation in Birmingham that provides mentoring to young offenders, ex-offenders and the long termed unemployed. BCDS specialized in the delivery of behaviour modification workshops, employability workshops, job clubs, CV and cover letters workshops and other programmes for young people who are at risk of offending and people who want to get back into work.

Blenheim CDP has been providing support services for drug and alcohol users, families and carers across London for 50 years. Our mission is to end dependency by enabling people to change. We provide tailored services to enable positive and meaningful change to support social reintegration. Our services include:

• Structured Day Programmes
• Specialist Stimulant Services
• Drug and Alcohol Direct Access Services
• GP Shared Care
• Needle Exchange
• Criminal Justice Services
• Primary Alcohol Services
• Children and Family/Carer Services
• Young Peoples Services
• Outreach and Engagement
• Learning and Development

Making A Difference

Booted and Rooted Ltd, is in the business of changing and shaping lives through the innovation, enterprise and poetry.

Based at the Greenman, Loughborough Junction, the work that he is doing is aimed at providing a holistic approach to solving some of our society’s biggest challenges. We make sure our partners are empowered by creating opportunities for individuals and communities.

Recently a 3 year business was developed and approved by Ixion, who's vision is to: “Transform people’s lives through Skills, Employment, Enterprise and Innovation, for growth”

Bringing Hope supports individuals and families, particularly those affected by high risk crime-led lifestyles, to lead crime free lives. We seek to promote a second chance for those who have been through the Criminal Justice System, with the aim of reducing reoffending rates and sustaining their decision to stop committing crimes.

'Our mission is to provide individuals immediate well-being support and practical guidance should they find themselves on the wrong side of the law for the first time. Through education initiatives we aim to discourage young people from crime by empowering them to explore, understand, challenge and change attitudes that may lead to anti-social or serious criminal activity. Through training and employment enterprises we aid ex-offenders in re-engaging with society, thus transforming lives and reducing public spending'.

CAIS is a registered charity and leading voluntary sector provider of personal support services in Wales. It helps people who are having problems with addictions, mental health, personal development and employment – as well as offering assistance and information to their families and friends. Its wide range of services includes residential treatment and rehabilitation, counselling, peer mentoring, supporting people in their homes, assisting people back into work or education, group work and other motivational interventions. CAIS can also offer a comprehensive range of training courses, together with training and support for employers. It is very active in the field of employment interventions including the development of our own social enterprises. CAIS is committed to working in partnership with others in keeping with the All Wales Strategy – Tackling Substance Misuse in Wales. All of its services aim to help people to recover from addiction and rebuild normal, productive lifestyles.

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.

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 facilitate educational programmes to children and young people focusing on the consequences of crime and providing them with an informed choice on their own life direction. What enables us to do this is 5 years of experience of our work conducted as a charity, from which we have sustained our charitable
objectives through the CIC. Our primary aim is to educate youngsters about how crime effects all it touches, acting as a deterrent & also a conduit to positive progression. What enables us to achieve this is our unique approach, relying on testimony of rehabilitated ex-offenders and victims of crime and also our
innovative workshops including joint enterprise, family perspective, gun gang & knife crime, drugs & alcohol, victim impact, legal aspects and many others including our mobile CELL experience (a well publicised insight into prison life and the implications of offending). We aid reintegration of ex-offenders
by supporting their progression, preventing re-offending.

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.

Child Action Northwest has developed a range of dynamic projects and services to protect, support and empower children, young people, families and communities.

Chrysalis was formed originally in 2003 to provide Specialist Structured Support, Detoxification, Harm Reduction & Treatment Services as well as Relapse Management Services that had been specifically designed to address Dependency, Associative Mental Health Issues and to attend to the Resultant Chaotic & Repeat Homelessness experienced by sufferers as a result. All services are delivered within our Good Quality Community Based Supported Accommodation Projects. Since opening our services have grown, evolved, changed and adapted to meet the challenges unique to our sector and to respond and adapt more effectively to the needs of our service users.
Chrysalis now offers a number of Specialist Support Programmes delivered within a framework of Good Quality Supported Accommodation.
Chrysalis is a Non-Profit Private Registered Provider of Social Housing Registered Number 4751 and a member of the Housing Ombudsman and the National Housing Federation.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Forgiveness Project collects and shares stories from individuals who have rebuilt their lives following hurt and trauma. As part of our work we deliver RESTORE, an intensive, group-based programme, centred on the stories of victims and perpetrators of crime. Its overall aim is to contribute to the rehabilitation process for offenders, by preparing and supporting them emotionally to effect change in their lives both in the immediate and longer term.

It does this by:
1. Developing empathy by helping offenders understand the impact of their actions on others.
2. Opening offenders’ minds to an alternative way of viewing themselves and the world.
3. Practically supporting ex-offenders in their move away from crime and desire to make reparation.
4. Assisting victim recovery through witnessing and acknowledgement.