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

Arts Award offers qualifications to young people under 25 that develop their creativity, leadership and communication skills. Arts Award can be delivered by any service or setting offering arts, cultural or media activities, and can be embedded in a variety of youth-work focused projects or environments.

It provides a highly accessible framework for creative development, combining the appeal of the arts with the motivation of a qualification. Arts Award also provides an effective means to deliver key youth work, restorative justice and re-proration including supporting young people’s personal and social development, raising young people’s aspirations and ensuring all young people are able to participate and achieve in education or training.

CleanStart is a Social Enterprise set up by Trafford Housing Trust to clear and clean its empty properties. The Trust employs ex-offenders from the community to carry out this work. Cleanstart offer a full clean and clear property and environmental service, to include empty property clearance, garden clearance, the cleaning up of 'grot spots', and house removal work. All staff have up to date CSCS cards to work on building site environments.

People can change their own lives, take a positive approach to the challenges they’re facing and come up with their own solutions. Coaching Inside and Out’s coaches help clients do that using the same approach as top leaders and performers.

The charity challenges and supports men, women and children in prison and the community through coaching.

CIAO’s coaches ask questions to support and challenge clients’ to understand themselves better, so they can find their own answers and help both themselves and others. By building up people’s inner resources they can find and make the most of external resources after coaching ends.

CIAO has a flexible commissioner and client-led model tailored to each service, not an off-the-shelf programme. Group sessions and drop in services are all possibilities, as well as individual coaching.

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.

Family Action is a charity committed to building stronger families and brighter lives. We help individuals and communities address the challenges they face through practical, emotional and financial support. We support over 60,000 families and hundreds of thousands of children across the country each year through a wide range of national programmes and local services. Our work includes help for parents-to-be, parenting and relationship support, the provision of many nurseries and Children’s Centres in local communities, intensive family support, emotional health and wellbeing services, counselling, mediation and therapies, a range of mental health services including supported housing, wellbeing support in schools and GP surgeries, financial grants programmes and a range of training and consultancy services. We deliver support to women in the Mother and Baby Unit and pregnant women in HMP Styal.

The Honeycomb Group is a team of social-minded brands championing happy homes in our region by providing services and support that help people across Staffordshire and its surrounding areas feel secure, connected and confident.

Whether it’s developing and maintaining affordable homes, providing trusted home repairs and improvements, keeping people safe and well at home or providing support services that eradicate social issues isolating people from a happy home, Honeycomb Group is making our region vibrant.

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).

The RFEA's simple aim, since 1885, has been to help those leaving and those who have left the Armed Forces to find and to remain in employment throughout their working lives. We aim to make the client 'Job Ready' by signposting them to bespoke support required using our Nova Network of support and tracking this via our Nova Support team prior to finding them the right employment choice.
Project Nova is an early intervention scheme working in conjunction mainly with the Police and NHS dealing with Ex Military personnel who have been arrested or are on the periphery of doing so. Project Nova works with many partner organisations including HMPPS & CRCs and local authorities along with numerous military charities.

At Richmond Fellowship we have been championing recovery and social inclusion for more than 50 years and we are now one of the largest voluntary sector providers of mental health support across England. We work with more than 9,000 people every year across more than 120 localised services. These include specialist offender services and accommodation and community based services that enable individuals with forensic histories to change their lives. Our services ensure better mental health and wellbeing that leads to greater independence, self-awareness, confidence, self-worth, financial inclusion and positive participation in mainstream communities.

RFYL24
A fitness-first program for rehabilitation & re-engagement for people in the community and in prison designed and delivered by Andy Mouncey, Founder of Run For Your Life Community Interest Company.

This Is For People Who Are
STUCK in a cycle of apathy, disengagement, addiction or violence.
At the START of a new stage in their role or their rehabilitation.
Striving to SUPPORT each other as a team or family unit.

Different, disruptive and deliberately difficult to complete.
24 hours of Physically Active Learning in 2.5 consecutive days.
Improved mental health so you can think clearly under pressure.
More physical capacity so you have the reserves to go deeper, further, easier.
Emotional resilience so you have purpose and can take the setbacks along the way.

March 2020 Corona Virus Outbreak
We have revised our delivery and content so that we are available to work and within the government CV-19 restrictions.

Startup is a charity which supports ex-offenders into self-employment. Our support is tailored to each individual and includes business planning and advice, financial help to purchase equipment and materials, peer mentor support and access to a business adviser for a year once client begins self-employment. We welcome referrals from partner agencies or direct contact from ex-offenders.

Our re-offending rate is under 5% working with 1200 ex-offenders, supporting over 300 into self-employment.

Startup is now actively looking to deliver contracts countrywide, to both female and male prisoners and ex-offenders, focusing on self-employment advice and support. We work with many partners, have offices in Oxford and London, and would welcome being part of a consortia. We bring a dedicated, successful award winning team and programme (Centre of Social Justice award 2012, OCVA charity of the year 2012, Howard League for Penal Reform 2013). Contact Gill Ryan for further information.

We are offering support to those struggling with social isolation and disengagement. These individuals are recently released from prison and/or have a history of addictions, poor health and mental health issues. We are able to support these individuals with mental health support, well being, coping strategies and resilience building. We look to work with these individuals via online support, due to Covid-19 restrictions and some possible license conditions due to previous offences. We offer safe spaces to discuss and explore possible barriers to effectively building a positive and settlement into community life.

Tempo works to enable more people to volunteer, because giving your time and feeling valued improves health, happiness and future prospects.

Our vision is for strong, connected communities where everyone’s time is valued. We want to work with more communities across the UK – enabling more people to contribute to their local community, and be recognised for the time that they give.

To achieve this, we use Time Credits to engage new people in communities and in shaping local services, improving health and wellbeing for all.

Time Credits are a time-based currency that incentivises people to volunteer. People earn Time Credits when they give their time and spend them on a wide range of activities they choose.

The benefits of Time Credits include:
• More people volunteering
• Improved health and wellbeing
• A stronger voluntary sector
• Better designed services
• People feel more connected
• People develop new skills and confidence

The Clink Charity’s sole aim is to reduce reoffending rates of ex-offenders. We work in partnership with Her Majesty’s Prison Service to run projects that train and give practical skills to prisoners to aid their rehabilitation. The Clink Restaurants and Gardens allow prisoners to learn, engage with the public and take their first steps towards a new life.

All projects utilise our Five Step Programme to ensure that prisoners receive the support they need, not only while they are in prison, but also after release:
Recruit – Train – Support – Employ – Mentor

The issue of reoffending has become one of the most pressing challenges facing society today.

45.2% of adults reoffend within one year of being released. For those serving sentences of less than 12 months this increases to 57.5%.

Training with continued support & mentoring allows us to link clients with employment, assist with other circumstances and ensure smooth transition leading to stability and progression.

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.