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Conviction helps people to navigate and have a voice in the criminal justice system. It develops practical resources to help people access their rights and to support campaigning and policy work, and offers its casework and advocacy service for those in most need.

Run For Your Life CIC

What We Do
Supporting Prison Governors: A Leadership Lifeline
We coach-train-mentor small groups of prison governors on Zoom so that they can stay sane, think clearly under pressure and bring their people with them while operating remotely in difficult circumstances.
This work started during the Covid-19 pandemic 2020 and has grown in scope to include Deputy Governors and other senior leaders.

Supporting People In Prison & Probation: A Frontline Lifeline
STUCK in a cycle of apathy, disengagement, addiction or violence.
At the START of a new stage in their role, treatment or rehabilitation.
Striving to SUPPORT each other as a team or family unit.

Our breakthrough program brings staff and service users together to practice the skills of collaboration to achieve shared goals.

Different, disruptive and deliberately difficult to complete.
24 hours of Physically Active Learning in 3 consecutive days.
Improved mental health

The Capability Company builds boards, teams, organisations & partnerships, through facilitation, or directly supporting development, management, or governance. Enjoyable ‘away days’ enable creative engagement on real issues, such as strategic priorities, managing change, improving communications. Founder Karen Morton was the development consultant for Circles UK and Escaping Victimhood. Recent roles include supporting specialist domestic abuse organisations, working nationally to secure funding, helping a group working on gangs prevention to become a charity, and the research and delivery of a substantial report to the Thames Valley PCC on commissioning domestic abuse services. She has extensive experience of charity management and developing sustainable organisations, and also offers fundraising support, evaluation, coaching, and general management consultancy plus participatory training on all aspects of running and developing organisations and partnerships.

Unlock Drama (UD) has over eight years’ experience working across the criminal justice system, delivering in more than 30 prisons with groups including sex offenders, young offenders, women vulnerable prisoners and foreign nationals.

Prisons we work within include: HMPYOI Swinfen Hall, HMYOI Brinsford and HMP Send etc.

UD utilises creative methods, which offers a unique tool that encourages teamwork, confidence, communication skills, motivation, organisation, listening skills, leadership, resilience and more. UD deliver creative projects closely linked to rehabilitation and focuses on addressing dominant concerns within the prison estate such as Engagement in activities, Substance Misuse and Debt.

UD also delivers issue-based theatre within the community working with participants such as: recovering drug addicts, homeless, young people at risk of offending and ex-offenders.