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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.

Belong London works with people who have offended and those who have been victims of crime in order to reduce crime and the harm it causes. Our approach to tackling crime involves supporting offenders to exit a life of crime and providing opportunities that help them play a positive role in society. We also support victims of crime to tackle and recover from injustices that have happened to them.

Our services include mentoring, group work and restorative justice programmes for children, young people and adults who have committed offences or been a victim of crime. We work with offenders both in custody and in the community.

Citizens Advice Lindsey offers advice on a range of topics to everyone regardless of age, race, gender, disability, sexuality, or religion.
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At Citizens Advice Lindsey we are developing our services in many ways. We are committed to reaching residents not only in town centres but in rural and coastal villages.

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.

DoD is a nationally recognised leader in site-sensitive performances. It’s a rarity to have site responsive work that can tour across the UK & the company addresses this with its model of partnering with an arts venue and an affiliate local organisation as performance space. For more than a decade, they have been collaborating with a wide variety of people from non-arts backgrounds to realise projects & performances.

The core aims of Dante or Die are to:

• Present inspiring, unexpected performances in areas where there is little existing contemporary theatre offer
• Develop new audiences through participation & local community outreach; and by engaging with non-traditional venues & offering new cultural experiences in each location

• Develop producing skills of local people

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.

Framework is a specialist provider of housing, support, treatment, mentoring & training across the East Midlands & South Yorkshire. Services include
Emergency Accommodation for homeless people;
Skills for Independence training;
Floating Support - Housing, debt, benefit advice to people in their homes;
Drug & Alcohol Treatment – IBA, residential rehab, intensive case management;
Mental Health Services - Supported accommodation, ‘Recovery’ services;
Offender Services –Supported accommodation, Prison In Reach mentoring, resettlement & floating support;
Street Outreach services - targeting rough sleepers;
Move-on accommodation – Preparing people for independence;
Older Persons services – Including residential registered care;
Young Peoples’ services - Supported accommodation & mentoring;
Complex needs services - supported accommodation;
Services providing education, training, volunteering & mentoring - Advice & Guidance, job search & work placements.

Garden Organic, the UK's leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for over 50 years. We are dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food. We have over 20,000 members and over 1,000 volunteers

Our vision is of a healthy and sustainable world that has embraced organic growing.

We champion organic gardening by focusing on individual, community and school growing projects throughout the UK. We promote its health and wellbeing benefits which include it being a good form of exercise, a stimulus to a better diet and a tool for social interaction. As part of this work we are currently working in Rye Hill Prison, delivering a gardening project to support the rehabilitation of offenders suffering from drug and alchohol abuse. You can read more about our work at Rye Hill here: http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/sites/www.gardenorganic.org.uk/files/TOW212_A-fresh-start.pdf

MHM was established 30 years ago by families and carers in the North East to provide support and care for people they loved with mental health problems.

Today we have grown into a major national organisation supporting people with learning disabilities, drug and alcohol and other problems, as well as our core client group of people with mental health needs, across the UK through a range of evidence based and innovative services.

Our fully trained, dedicated, experienced and caring staff work with partner organisations to deliver comprehensive services to meet a full range of personal needs in a seamless manner to help vulnerable people to develop, ‘recover’ and move on to independent living whenever possible.

We provide support to more than 60,000 people every year, covering many aspects of their lives: from psychological and well-being therapeutic recovery interventions through to everyday employment, housing, independent and community support needs.

We would like to set up a number of small businesses, that will train and employ offenders on a permanent basis. Once a position has been taken up, we would then put in to place support packages that would help them to continue on their rehabilitative path. These packages would not be just for them but for the whole family. These businesses will include, a coffin company, http://www.theethicalcc.com/, a cafe/restaurant, a joinery workshop, a building and painting and decorating company and a small horticultural centre that will also provide a gardening service to the local area. We will also establish a training team that will provide “in custody” and on-line training to individuals, this training would include anger management training as well as training for the Personal Trackside license, which would enable the individual to work on the railways. This training team will work in partnership with support workers to ensure each individual’s needs are met prior to and upon release.

NXG runs innovative social enterprises that help create work and training opportunities within prisons. These include textiles, graphics workshops, woodwork, barbering, and poultry farming, just to name a few . Our workshops are based on the need for meaningful work in prison, which would allow inmates to gain work experience, as well as employability skills that would increase their chances of getting into employment and ultimately break the cycle of reoffending.

Individuals working on a given workshop will learn craft skills that would enable them to work in a similar enterprise or set up their own business providing similar services upon release. Progression support is provided by partners, resettlement programmes and NXG staff support learners to access jobs, education or training.

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.

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.

Liberty Personnel Ltd is focussed on securing sustainable long term employment for ex-offenders and their families. We offer a range of services including mentoring, signposting and referral, and information and guidence. All of our clients are allocated to a peer mentor who will assist with needs analysis, aspirations and guidence. We work with a number of organisations to deliver our core aims, and we are actively seeking partnerships with providers across our sector.