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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.

We are a Sport for Good, and Rehabilitation organisation that works with young people 16-25yr olds that are Not in Employment, Education or Training, Young Adult Offenders, those at risk of offending, young victims of crimes & abuse and other socially and economically disadvantaged groups .We believe in the goodness of the human spirit and that people change people. We provide support, opportunity, guidance and advice to disadvantaged young people through engagement in boxing, sport 
and empowering mentoring relationships.

We make an important, immediate and enduring positive impact on the lives of the young people we work with

We run bespoke programmes for large or small groups and deliver a one to one programme for young people whose learning and development would benefit from an individual programme. We create realistic alternative pathways with clear progression routes with the help of our partners. We have a strong emphasis on positive empowering relationships

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.

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.

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.

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

Support Network for user's and ex user's who are contemplating or have completed treatment at Thamkrabok Monastery in Thailand. We also provide preventative drug & alcohol education for adults and children.

Escaping Victimhood was founded in 2007 by criminal justice professionals, who saw that many victims of serious crimes (such as the murder of a child) had extensive and on-going needs that were not being met.

We deliver four day (plus a one day follow up day) residential workshops designed to enable participants to ‘understand the past and embrace the future’. We also inform those working with victims of serious crime about the impact of trauma in their lives.

Our programme was developed to address the issues and helps restore participants to a more 'normal' life. It is unique and is delivered by skilled and professional facilitators. They are overseen by a lead facilitator, who is a highly experienced victim liaison worker and ensures strong and safe leadership of the workshop. . The structure of the programme is psycho-educative and therapeutic (with a small t) in a generic rather than specific sense.

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.

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

KeyRing supports vulnerable people to live independently and reduce their offending behaviour. We believe in volunteering, community connections and peer support. Our unique model of support comprising of volunteers and professional staff provides a powerful system of support. We are especially effective in supporting people with learning disabilities and mental health problems, and those with chaotic lifestyles.

KeyRing has an established learning disability training package for professionals in the CJS. We have a successful model of support for people in recovery from addiction.

We support individuals, organisations and businesses providing pathways to enterprise, employment, learning and wellbeing in the creative industries. We use art and functional craft, running training sessions, workshops, one to one mentoring and networking opportunities for adults 19+. We run a Creative Experience programme for young people as well as other leisure sessions for family learning and community.
We are very interested in partnership working.

We are a social enterprise using music and technology with people who are disengaged from the mainstream through problems such as mental health, addiction, offending, challenging behaviour or chaotic lifestyles.

Our programmes work on a one to one basis with the hardest to reach learners and the key outcome is increased confidence as well as re-engagement with professional or education services and, potentially, progression to other appropriate opportunities. Clients learn the skills that they need to create music they view as relevant to them – it could be grime, dubstep, trance, hip hop or any other genre. Many clients undertake Arts Awards which are meaningful qualifications which can be used to build up credits towards a college place.

Noise Solution uses cutting edge music technology and has an absolute focus on excellence in provision. As a result we have consistently impressive results with clients for whom there are often few choices left.

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.

Refuge opened the world’s first refuge in Chiswick in 1971. Refuge is the country’s largest single provider of specialist accommodation and support to women and children escaping domestic violence, supporting 2,800 women and children on any given day. Refuge provides safe, emergency accommodation through a network of refuges throughout the country and runs the Freephone 24-Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline in partnership with Women’s Aid. Refuge also offers community based outreach services, specialist services for minority ethnic communities and a team of independent domestic violence advocates (IDVAs) to support women experiencing domestic violence.

Revolving Doors Agency works with partners to change systems and improve services for individuals with multiple, complex needs and poor mental health who are in repeat contact with the criminal justice system.

Our ambition is that anyone experiencing the revolving door of crisis and crime receives effective support to reach their potential, with fewer victims of crime and safer communities as a result.

We do not deliver services to individuals but provide independent consultancy services to commissioners, providers and policymakers applying our systemic understanding of the 'revolving door' problem. We help partners develop practical solutions to meet local needs based on sound evidence and the involvement of service users.

In supporting our partners we draw on our respected position and our extensive network of influence extending from Whitehall to the town hall and engagement with national and local agencies including the police, probation, local authorities and the NHS.

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.