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Digital comms support and lived experience consultancy for organisations specialising in working within justice.

Independent People is the leading provider of housing, support and advice to young people aged between 16 and 25 in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Future 4 Me is a Big Lottery-funded project which aims to improve outcomes for care and custody leavers by offering specialist support in relation to accommodation, health, ETE (education, training & employment) and engagement in positive activities.

We work with adults, young people and families who are facing disadvantage, isolation and who have lived an unsettled way of life, through CrossFit, therapeutic support , community activities, and an opportunity to explore Christian Faith.

We offer services in HMP Lancaster and at our HQ in the community. These services include crossfit (sport) group workouts, small group work, individual sessions and family events.

We offer opportunities to explore Faith in small groups or as individuals.

Our sessions are underpinned using a trauma informed approach and CBT principles.

1st Impressions is a not-for-profit organisation focused on helping women in vulnerable groups get back into employment. Working with partner organisations to gain referrals, we firstly profile the individual to understand their needs, so a mentor can then assigned.

Our mentors will set up an initial meeting with their client and agree objectives, they will then help them prepare for their forthcoming interview. This preparation will include interview coaching and as well as assisting them in choosing clothing and accessories from an extensive donated wardrobe, where they can choose from a range of outfits. Once our clients feel confident in their chosen outfit our team continue to provide interview support – hopefully with the end result being our client getting their dream job.

Our ever-widening group of volunteers are dedicated, believing that a 1st Impressions focused approach will help women from disadvantaged backgrounds enter the jobs market.

2makeit helps in prisoner and ex-prisoner rehabilitation by providing opportunities for creative expression through music and the arts. Our programmes aim to increase confidence, self-esteem and ability to work with others via a creative environment. Our work continues in the community: just ‘being there’ for a conversation when needed, mentoring and continuing creative activities. Prison projects include choirs, drum workshops, art and poetry. The pandemic was the spur for innovative development, changing our delivery in prisons, adapting our support work in the community. With social enterprise partner, Pictora, 2makeit has developed 2019 art project, Made Visible, to take different creative activities into prisons and community. We have also created ‘Songbird’, an in-cell songwriting project, offering opportunities to maintain connections with families. We have resumed in-person work in prisons and can now offer an extended repertoire for our work in the community and in prisons.

2 Way Tenancy Solutions works with clients who are threatened with homelessness. We take a holistic approach to understand and address the root cause of their problems. Support is delivered through our financial capability programme which aims to equip beneficiaries with life skills needed to sustain and maintain their home. Our Reconnecting Communities Programme is aimed at people who are threatened with homelessness, suffer from mental health and have a substance misuse problem and a history of offending or are at risk of re-offending. Support is delivered to reduce the risk of violent offending and understand the root cause of the offending.

3 Pillars Project works within the criminal justice system, using a combination of teamwork and rugby coaching courses as a way of engaging young people to deliver positive role-modelling and mentorship. We target high-risk young people, including under-18s, to tackle violence in prisons and gang-related behaviour through positive intervention. We also provide emotional support and guidance during each course through group discussion sessions and one-to-one mentoring relationships directed towards rehabilitation and reintegration on release from prison. We provide long-term support to all course participants, including referrals to appropriate partner organisations and/or encouraging future participation in subsequent courses as assistant coaches and peer mentors.

3SC manages contracts on behalf of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. The delivery of public services is a difficult and competitive marketplace, dominated by large commercial organisations that can lack the person-centred and inclusive approach to public services that the VCSE sector excels at delivering. 3SC gives these organisations a chance to compete for, and ultimately deliver, such contracts. We have built supply chains and worked with more than 550 different delivery organisations across 16 programmes in the welfare to work/employment, young people, criminal justice, and disabilities’ arenas. 3SC has supported and enabled the VCSE sector to access more than £62 million since its inception through our directly delivered contracts and Transforming Rehabilitation activities. We believe that the needs of people using public services, especially those who are hardest to reach, are best met by experienced, local, passionate and mission-driven organisations.

4women provides a client led holistic service for women across Norfolk sixteen and over.We offer one to one support, groups, advocacy, court support, volunteering opportunities, a mentoring progrannme, support with education, training and employment and signposting. We have two specialist support co-ordinators, one for cultural minorities and one fro criminal justice.

Homelessness and all associated fields (drugs, alcohol, mental ill-health, crime). We have services that relate to every point on the homelessness pathway, from rough-sleeping and begging to move-on and independence up-skilling.

A Fairer Chance formed in September 2011 to provide specialist employment and skills interventions for ex-offenders and those classed as NEET. The organisation works in partnership with employers and the welfare system to work towards placing clients into sustainable employment.

We provide training, workshops, one to one and keynote speeches to empower individuals and families. We use our designed CHOICE program that works on supporting with the following areas:
Confidence, Health (mental health), Organisation, Identity, Communication and Empowerment.

We use NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Life Coaching and Mindfulness to equip our programme participants with the necessary tools and techniques that will enable them to turn their life around and thrive.

We can provide special services to Arab, Kurds and Afghani/Iranian communities in their language if they struggle with language barriers.

We use our booklets and teaching materials to enhance the learning process.

A Way Forward Foundation offers counselling and mentoring support to children, adolescents, adults and their families in King's Norton and the surrounding areas of Birmingham: anyone who has mental health issues and concerns. Its mission is to promote their well-being by providing accessible, cost-effective, quality mental health care for them, aiming to reduce both their isolation and their dependency on public services, and to increase their self-esteem and confidence, and thus their quality-of-life. The Foundation aims to provide outdoor activities that will build confidence, motivation and team building, and offers mentoring to children and young people, providing emotional guidance, a sense of continuity and stability.

A Way Out is an organisation of excellence, tackling and preventing exploitation of vulnerability of women and young people.

We are an outreach and prevention charity which aims to engage, empower and equip vulnerable and excluded women, families and young people to live lives free from harm, abuse and exploitation and to reduce life limiting choices and behaviour.

Our service users include women and young people with substance misuse problems, involved in prostitution, homeless or living on the streets, often engaged in offending or victims of abuse.

A Way Out is based in Stockton on Tees at a support centre called The Gate. This centre provides the base for many of our projects, offering a safe and secure place for women to come and receive support and get involved in a whole range of activities.

abandofbrothers was established in 2008 by men committed to positive social change through personal development and community building. It serves the most vulnerable young men by inviting them to collaborate in a meaningful and common purpose. This is achieved by providing local adult men with powerful training that develops mentoring skills, emotional intelligence and enhances authenticity and confidence. The rites of passage experience we provide for young men allows them to deal with the trauma of their past. Armed with the support of a mentor and the abandofbrothers community, young men move on to live lives of purpose and meaning.

Abianda works with young women and girls affected by criminal exploitation and violence in London and delivers training to professionals nationally. Our mission is to bring about a culture shift in the way services are delivered to gang-affected young women, so they feel safe to access help; to ensure they are no longer a hidden group in our communities; and they are free from harm and abuse. We pursue social impact through our services, training, and providing paid employment opportunities for young women so that they can influence the future delivery of services.

Our unique model of practice addresses the barriers that stop young women seeking help. By asking young women the right questions and offering an equal, transparent relationship we help them discover their own resilience and competence and to develop the power to change their situation.

Access Community Trust is based in Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth and Thetford and works with people who may be homeless, vulnerable and suffering from social exclusion. We believe that everyone, irrespective of their background and circumstances, is entitled to live in a decent home, enjoy positive and rewarding relationships with others, engage in some meaningful activity and achieve their maximum potential.

We work with hundreds of vulnerable and disadvantaged clients in our communities, providing six supported housing units, an information, advice and guidance drop-in centre, education and training services including work with schools and a youth-led project, an employment mentoring recruitment service and a dual diagnosis mental health service. Our services support men, women, families, single mothers and young people (16+) and our ultimate aim is to help people to attain independent living and personal fulfilment within their community.

Access2Advice is a growing CIC, experienced in offering training and support to those in custody & on probation. This training is augmented by offering opportunities to volunteer, which can then assist in finding employment.

The aim is to reduce reoffending in prisoners within by addressing the key barriers to rehabilitation, such as improvement of self-confidence and motivation, improving transferable skills and employability, and by working with local businesses and the community to reduce stigma and discrimination. This is achieved through the 'breaking the cycle of re-offending' rehabilitation programme of training and support.

Current partners are APM, HMPPS.

Our Achieve team supports offenders’ transition back into society through gainful employment, education or training – with the aim of helping to reduce reoffending and stop cycles of offending.
Achieve provides services to His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), individual prisons, and local government. We build strong partnerships and work closely with subcontractors to provide clear pathways for those we support.
We deliver CFO Evolution both in prisons and community locations across northwest England. We also provide an award-winning Careers Information, Advice and Guidance service in prisons in Lancashire and Cumbria, helping increase the number of prison leavers into employment by an impressive 300 per cent. Achieve also delivers GM ETE across 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester on behalf of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, as part of Greater Manchester Integrated Rehabilitative Services (GMIRS).
Achieve is part of Career Connect and as such benefits from the

Acknowledging Youths is a Community Interest Company helping young, disadvantaged people in society to gain the skills they need for work placements through innovative methods. Our mission is to work with schools, businesses and the wider community to provide courses that give young people the work and life skills they need in order to sustain employment in particular environments.