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Birth Companions is a unique charity which supports women experiencing severe disadvantage during pregnancy, birth and early parenting. We are the UK’s leading organisation working in this area, with widely acknowledged expertise in the needs of pregnant women and new mothers facing severe disadvantage both in prison and the community.

The women we support face a range of issues and challenges including mental health problems, substance misuse, a history of domestic and sexual violence, trafficking, experience of detention and human rights violations overseas. They are particularly vulnerable during their pregnancies due to the effects of poor health, poverty, lack of support from family and friends as well as isolation.
Our overall aim is to empower women and help them to give their babies best possible start in life.

We also seek to raise awareness and to influence changes in policy and practice to improve conditions for the women we work with.

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”

Carers Federation delivers a wide range of Health and Social Care support and training. In relation to Transforming Rehabilitation we provide a number of projects (mentoring, befriending, counselling, family working) responding to the casual link between caring and the risk of offending. We have been working in HMP Whatton since 2014 in line with the implementation of the new Care Act delivering a Social Care scheme, with prisoners assisting prisoners who have difficulty living day to day life due to disabilities, age, communication and mobility issues. Previous work has also included working with families affected by substance misuse and the impact of the criminal justice system on family dynamics and through the gate mentoring working in partnership with voluntary and statutory organisations.
We also deliver advocacy training throughout the UK and can provide bespoke training to prison staff and prisoners on setting up and running a Social Care Scheme.

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.

We aim to bring everyone together. Co-Inspires provides a platform through music and media to allow everyone to express themselves from ex offenders to people who suffer from a disability. We provide a new experience to the society as well as therapeutic experience for the artist or artists themselves. Co-Inspires hopes to reduce crime in communities and will work with third sector organisations in order to prevent from offending or re-offending.

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.

LGBTQ+ Community Support.
Support LGBTQ+ Prisoners whilst in prison and when resettling back into the community after release.

Run a LGBTQ+ Community hub every Saturday morning along with regular social events throughout the South-West.

Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief (GESIPR) believes in empowering communities, groups and individuals that have been excluded from society
for one reason or the other and as a result are inhibited from exploring and attaining their full potentials as individuals and community assets.
We identify and serve people deeply affected by social injustice: domestic abuse survivors, ex-offenders, disadvantaged young people, the homeless, asylum seekers, and single parents and families living in poverty, who are falling through cracks in the
system without any other viable support. Our mission is to help these people and their communities access equal opportunities, harness their potential and regain their confidence and value. Our methods for helping them vary, as we take a holistic approach to solving problems. We aim to partner with existing services and voluntary agencies to fill gaps in service delivery for the communities in which we work.

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.

POPS is a user-led charity supporting families through their contact with the criminal justice system as a result of a loved one’s conviction. POPS focuses on strengthening relationships within families and between families and their communities. We aim to help individuals overcome stigma, understand their identity, build self-confidence/skills and contribute to a more cohesive society.
We achieve this through a range of prison-based and community focused support services including: Family Support Services delivered at 11 prisons across the North-West/Yorkshire; ‘Through the Gate’ support for prisoners and their families; community-based support for women through POPS’ Women’s Centre (Oldham); community-based interventions for prisoners from BAME backgrounds; training for professionals; restorative practice programmes and community-based support for families attached to the CRC’s Intensive Community Order (generating £6.52 of economic/social value for every £1 spent).

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.

We are a social inclusion charity that aims to create better futures for young people and adults in the North West. In 2019/2020, we helped 15,000+ people in the community, prison and women’s centres. We operate mainly in Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Lancashire. Key activities include:
• Digital skills, financial literacy, careers learning, enterprise activities and mentoring support in schools and colleges to raise aspirations.
• Targeted youth services including mentoring and family support for vulnerable children and young people.
• Information, advice, guidance, employment and training support to disadvantaged young people and adults.
• Specialist adult services from offender management and rehabilitation, money skills, debt advice and fuel poverty advice to domestic abuse services.
• Group health and wellbeing activities and peer-led support

We work with young offenders, vulnerable women and men with complex needs.

Sing Inside takes day long singing workshops into prisons around the country, working with groups of student volunteers and creating a larger choir with participants from within the prisons we visit. We teach a series of songs by ear to everyone at the same time, avoiding distancing prison volunteers from external volunteers, and everyone performs together at a short concert in the afternoon. our workshops aim to encourage self-confidence and self-worth, and a belief in the positive impact prison residents can have on group activities, by allowing them a liberating creative and social space in which to work towards a goal. Sing Inside utilises the power of group singing to draw together a community quickly, improving relationships between residents and external volunteers, as well as including prison staff. Our workshops encourage faith in supportive external communities and hope for positive contribution to group activities upon release through group singing.

The Social Interest Group (SIG) was formed as a charity in 2014. Its sole aim is to be a vehicle to develop and strengthen the charities that are within it, so they in turn thrive and do social good. Our members include Penrose Options and Equinox Care.

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.

The Calico Group is a group of innovative charities and businesses aimed at making a real difference to people's lives. We deliver services in the health, care & support, employability & skills, housing and construction & regeneration sectors. In terms of criminal justice, our services include: drug & alcohol service in HMP Manchester and HMP Buckley Hall; supported housing for ex-offenders in Manchester, Rochdale and East Lancs; refuge for homeless people with complex needs; traditional and complex needs domestic violence refuges and safe houses; domestic violence perpetrator programmes; behavioural change programmes aimed at criminal behaviours; community substance misuse services in Blackpool (Horizon) and Manchester; promote lived-experience volunteer and peer support throughout our services. More widely, we are an RSL with 4,500 properties and provide a wide-range of care and support services to vulnerable people in our communities.

Our group provides Trans Awareness and Equality Training to the Prison and Probation services, provides training on the PSI and guidance for the Care and Management of Trans Offenders. We visit prisons to support Trans and Gender Diverse offenders, give support upon release and occasionally provide accomodation in our Trans Community House to suitable Trans Offenders on release.
Our chair person also serves as a member on the Transgender advisory Board to the prison and probation service and is also a member of the Inside Gender Identity NHS England T&F group for improving the health care and support of Transgender Offenders, including secure accomodation.

We exist to to support the rehabilitation of prisoners, in particular but not exclusively to those who are or have previously been prisoners at HMP Wandsworth. This is mainly through mentoring and befriending. We work alongside the Wandsworth prison resettlement department through our local and national faith and community networks.