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Cambridge Cyrenians provides supported accommodation for single, homeless, men and women. We offer a range of services, including accommodation specifically for ex-offenders. Residents are accommodated in shared houses, rather than large hostels and are actively encouraged to become involved in the day to day running of their house.

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.

Circles UK seeks greater public protection by working towards a substantial reduction in sexual offending, providing a range of services to local Circles of Support and Accountability providers. Further, it aims to develop greater public understanding of community approaches to public protection.

Clean Break uses theatre for personal and political change, working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system. The company's theatre-based education and training programme enables women offenders and those at risk of offending to develop personal, professional and creative skills leading to education and employment. We deliver a year-round theatre education programme with holistic support for women from across the 33 London boroughs. We also deliver theatre and playwriting residencies in women's prisons and leadership training for professionals working in the criminal justice system. We tour short plays on the theme of women and crime to cjs and related settings - conferences, training events etc with accompanying workshops to explore themes and issues affecting women offenders/women at risk. The plays are performed by women graduates of our theater education programme.We are also a professional touring theatre company taking plays to theatres and prisons

Create makes society fairer by connecting the most disadvantaged people to the power of the creative arts.
We know unleashing creativity ignites imaginations, develops confidence and builds relationships. Like setting off a firework, our professional artists light the touch paper and our participants discover new found self-belief and a desire to try more, do more and be more.
We’re a national charity that champions local priorities by collaborating with our partners to tailor every project to each individual’s needs.
We know that music can help ease the anguish of a parent with a terminally ill child, that drama can build an isolated young carer’s self-esteem and that storytelling can strengthen the bond between a young offender and the loved ones waiting for them at home.
One spark of creative energy opens up a world of positive opportunities. Create lights that spark.

Fine Cell Work trains and pays prisoners to do craftwork in their cells to encourage motivation, improve mental health and build employability skills. FCW is geared to long-term, male and female, high risk offenders who stay on the programme for 2 to 10 years. Our goal is to enable prisoners to gain social and employment skills so they can desist from re-offending in the future. Prisoners on the programme work for 20-40 hours a week in their cells.

We have a workforce of approximately 250 prisoners across 30 prisons. The apprenticeship training is done by 50 skilled volunteers. The prisoners make hand-embroidered quilts, cushions, clothes, rugs and furniture covers which are sold internationally and to museums and designers.

Our aim is to enable prisoners to gain motivation and “work-readiness” by doing cellwork and to follow on with further employment preparation in workshops where they can do accredited training in soft furnishings, machine embroidery and upholstery.

PAC provides advice, counselling and training services to support all affected by adoption and permanency: children/families, adults who were adopted/placed as children, birth family members and professionals. Its daily Advice Line provides advice and information on all aspects of adoption and other forms of permanent care. In addition to individual counselling and family therapy, PAC provides support with contact arrangements between adoptive and birth families, intermediary services for birth relatives and adopted adults and regular drop-ins for birth mothers whose children have been compulsorily removed.

We aim to provide the advice people need for the problems they face and improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives.

At Peterborough CAB we provide free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.

We help people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice, and by influencing policymakers.

The types of community support services that we provide are:
• Financial capability, benefit and debt advice.
• Housing advice, prevention of homelessness work & court representation.
• Volunteer/supported placements in Bureaux.
• Mentoring and advocacy support,
• Prison in-reach advice and support.
We have active partnerships with local criminal justice and offender management consortia and the One Service, and are sub-contracted to Cross Keys Homes and Axiom to support their tenants.

Prison Fellowship aims to support prisoners by coming alongside them and supporting them through practical programmes and prayer.

We seek to help, support and develop a Christian ministry to prisoners through Sycamore Tree, our victim awareness programme; Angel Tree, where we support prisoner's children at Christmas; Letter Writing and other practical support through chaplaincy.

We do this through our network of volunteer members, and currently have over 1,800 members across England and Wales.

The Prison Radio Association (PRA) aims to change the lives of serving prisoners through the power of radio.

An award-winning education charity, the PRA runs National Prison Radio (NPR) in partnership with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). The service is available to prisoners across England and Wales via in-cell TV.

The PRA works closely with a number of specialist intervention agencies and partners in creating content for NPR that signposts its audience to services that support rehabilitation and resettlement.

The PRA also provides support, guidance and expertise to existing prison radio projects and advises prisons interested in setting up radio projects and radio training facilities.

The PRA was established as a charity in 2006 in response to a growing demand from prisons to engage in prison radio.

Relate North Essex & East Herts is an established charity delivery family counselling, sexual therapy, youth counselling, couples and individual counselling to all in need of our services. The Charity also delivers relationship training to the public and corporate clients, and provides community based family support and counselling services. The Charity delivers parenting information programmes to separated parents and designs bespoke training programmes when requested. Since 2009 the Charity has also provided domestic violence perpetrator programmes, specialist training to professionals and is delivering whole school education on domestic violence. The Charity works across County from satellite venues providing services where they are most needed, as well as in schools and family homes.

The Saracens Sport Foundation uses the power of sport to change the lives of cildren and young people. Working in partnership we deliver a range of sport for social change projects to increase the life chances of those involved. Our projects focus on four core pillars: Education & Training, Health & Wellbeing, Inclusion and Participation. We work in schools and colleges, estates and parks, as well as more targeted environments such as Prisons, Young Offenders Institutes and PRU's. Our Get Onside Prison program is an 8 week personal development program where we focus on discipline, honesty, humility and work rate to create positive attitudes leading towards release plans.

Shannon Trust runs the Shannon Trust Reading Plan, an award-winning peer mentoring programme which encourages and supports prisoners who can read to give one-to-one tuition to help non-reading prisoners learn to read.

Thames Valley Partnership: "protecting victims, supporting offenders and their families". Thames Valley Partnership works in partnership with organisations operating within the Criminal Justice system and allied services to provide long-term solutions to the problems of crime and social exclusion. Our programmes include restorative justice, delivering the arts, supporting the families of offenders, helping short term prisoners return to the community and supporting victims of domestic abuse.

The IARS International Institute is a user-led charity with a mission to give everyone a chance to forge a safer, fairer and more inclusive society. IARS achieves its charitable aims by producing evidence-based solutions to current social problems, sharing best practice and by supporting young people and the community to shape decision making. IARS is an international expert in user-led research, evaluation, human rights and inclusion, citizenship, criminal justice and restorative justice. We deliver our charitable mission by:

- undertaking user-led research and advocacy;
- developing and delivering user-led training programmes; and
- assisting other organisations to develop robust theory of change models and evaluation frameworks to demonstrate their impact.

We deliver projects nationally and internationally throughout Europe across three main areas - justice, gender and equality, and youth.

We are a long-established charity, started 20 years ago. We principally work with young people to educate and inform them about the dangers of criminal behaviour and stage multi-agency crime and safety awareness days in secondary schools.
We also take offenders, released on licence to these days and have employed offenders and ex-offenders to deliver workshops in schools which has given them a purpose in life and assisted with their rehabilitation.