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We work with people from all disadvantaged backgrounds, all equality protected characteristics; also: suffering from poverty, deprivation, homelessness, addictions, ex-prisoners, past convictions, abuse, neurodiversity, isolation...
We are grassroots, equality and lived experience founded and led, are in close contact with the beneficiaries we are supporting.
We provide writing and publishing services, which include writing for wellbeing, improving educational and career related writing skills, employability, social integration, improving mental health and tackling isolation, mentoring and editing support to get into publishing and journalism.
We run writing workshops for prisoners, motivational writing competitions which tackle stigma and aid social integration, also innovational book publishing projects.
We provide supervised work placements, arrange accessible and inclusive cultural and social events. Our beneficiaries can join us as volunteers, staff, and trustees
We are grassroots, equality and lived experience founded and led, are in close contact with the beneficiaries we are supporting.
We provide writing and publishing services, which include writing for wellbeing, improving educational and career related writing skills, employability, social integration, improving mental health and tackling isolation, mentoring and editing support to get into publishing and journalism.
We run writing workshops for prisoners, motivational writing competitions which tackle stigma and aid social integration, also innovational book publishing projects.
We provide supervised work placements, arrange accessible and inclusive cultural and social events. Our beneficiaries can join us as volunteers, staff, and trustees
Contact
Address
Redbrick House, York Court,
6 Wilder Street,
City of Bristol,
BS2 8QH,
United Kingdom
Work Tel. No.
0117 298 0516
info@arkfound.org
Website
In Brief
Charity Number
1173072
No. of Paid Staff
7
No. of Volunteers
21
Does the organisation involve volunteers with experience of the criminal justice system?
Yes
Primary Field of Work
Media
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
Organisation type
Social Enterprise - non-profit
Regions
London | Inner London | Outer London | South West | Plymouth UA | Bristol, City of UA | Wiltshire UA 12 | Torbay UA | Swindon UA | South Gloucestershire UA | Bath and North East Somerset UA | Remote
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy | Alcohol & drugs | Arts | Attitudes, thinking and behaviour | Collaboration and partnership working | Counselling | Covid-19 | Disability | Education | Employment | Environment & regeneration | Evaluation and effectiveness | Holistic services | Housing & homelessness | Lobbying & campaigning | Media | Mental health | Mentoring & befriending | Offender management | Other | Peer support | Personal development | Prison reform | Prisons | Probation reform | Race | Research & academia | Restorative justice | Service user involvement | Through the gate | Volunteering
People you work with
Ex-service personnel | Foreign nationals | Gypsies & Travellers | Lesbian, gay, bisexual people | Men | Older people | People with disabilities | People with English as a second language | Prisoners with short sentences | Racially minoritised people | Refugees & asylum seekers | Remand prisoners | Roma people | Serious offenders | Transgender people | Victims | Women | Young people
Racially minoritised people specialist services
Arab | Asian Other | Bangladeshi | Black | Black African | Black British | Black Caribbean | Chinese | Dual Heritage | Foreign Nationals | Gypsy or Irish Traveller | Indian | Irish | Pakistani | Roma
Prisons
All prisons