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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.

Coaching is radical: it gets to the root of clients’ values, motivation and goals. It also gives individuals complete responsibility for changing their own lives. Coaches do not mentor: we do not advise, suggest solutions, share experiences or pass on requests. Instead we develop skills and empower clients to think and take action. By building up clients’ inner resources they can find and make the most of external resources after coaching ends.

CIAO coaches male and female offenders in the community and in prisons and we welcome links with others who are doing the same as we support other organisations who offer coaching to offenders as well as offering coaching ourselves.

Our coaches work one-to-one giving up to six intensive hours, adapted to what suits the client best based on their own comprehensive needs assessment. The approach is then tailored to their aims and challenges.

All paid coaches and co-ordinators are self-employed.

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.

Part of the Staffordshire Housing Group, Arch is a local charity that has been campaigning, raising awareness and delivering services to tackle homelessness and domestic abuse for nearly 25 years. Based in Stoke-on-Trent, we offer support, accommodation and advice to a diverse range of vulnerable and socially excluded children, young people, adults and families across Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and Cheshire East.

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.

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.

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.

The First Step run a domestic violence prevention programme for men who wish to stop being violent or abusive to their partners or who wish to address their past behaviour. The course consists of a small amount of individual work and 26 group sessions. We have an Integrated Partner Service that pro-actively supports partners and/or ex-partners of men on the programme.
We are a Respect accredited service, the UK member organisation for work with perpetrators.
We can also assess and seek to provide interventions for couples where it is unclear who is the predominant aggressor and for those in same sex relationships (funding permitting).
Places are funded externally or by the participants themselves, depending on area and/or participant's situation.
We form part of Knowsley Domestic Violence Support Services's holistic response to domestic violence, which includes refuge accommodation and community based support for victims/survivors.