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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.

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.

Adferiad Recovery combines the skills and expertise of its founding charities to provide outstanding services for people in Wales with mental health problems, substance misuse problems, and those with co-occurring and complex needs.

Alana House, one of PACT’s community projects, is a women’s centre based in Reading with outreach services in Berkshire. Established in 2010, Alana House takes a "one stop shop" approach and provides trauma informed, holistic support for women around the 9 pathways to reducing offending through group work, 1-2-1 support, drop in sessions and targeted partnership work. It aims to prevent women from entering the criminal justice system, break the cycle of offending and improve the outcomes for the women, their families and the wider community.

The services we offer at All Saints Homeless Shelter include education and training, substance misuse support, mental health support and work experience.
As part of the preparation for independence, our staff also work with service users to support them with building basic life skills and knowledge that they will need in order to be able to live fully independently such as:
Applying for housing benefits, cooking and general household duties, routines and boundaries, planning ahead, being prepared and organised. Additionally, we help them with registering with local health services, budgeting and applying for bank accounts, and building and maintaining positive peer relationships.
Our support workers host weekly support sessions including cooking classes, sports sessions and football training. These services aid in improving physical and emotional wellbeing of our service users.
Additionally, we offer service users temporary accommodation, as well as long term placements.

We are a women's community service, with a busy centre offering a one-stop-shop approach for women and their children. We offer something at all stages of CJS - Police diversion, Liaison & diversion, community rehabilitation services, prison in-reach, through the gate. We offer family support and safeguarding. We have prison in-reach to HMP Drake Hall and Foston Hall offering resettlement support through the gate. We offer onsite accommodation 6 beds for women coming out of prison or fleeing DA. We have our own Independent Domestic Violence Advisor on site and offer in-house training courses on DA as well as many other topics. The project is well established having been in existence for 37 years. We have a strong team of volunteers and champions who offer a range of skills, personalities and strengths. We also provide enrichment activities in the CAMEO unit at HMP Foston hall and in Ardenleigh forensic mental health hospital.

Ara's purpose is to Provide Hope and Better Lives

As a key prison resettlement partner and part of the (NGSN) National Gambling Support Network we provide structured treatment, counselling, resettlement, housing support, education, training and employment guidance, as well as many other interventions to promote recovery and a healthier life.
We are a major provider of supported housing services in Bristol as a partner in the Homelessness Prevention Accommodation Pathways, and the Recovery Orientated Alcohol and Drugs Service (ROADS).

Ara has an extensive and expanding service providing counselling and support for people experiencing gambling problems and affected others.

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

Arterne CIC is a not for profit community interest company supporting individuals, families, agencies, businesses and communities to thrive. The support we offer is delivered through projects and training that promotes and supports mental health. We focus on reducing anxieties; promote mental health and help to minimise harm people cause to themselves; minimise suicidal ideation and behaviours; provide support for building positive relationships; tackle substance use where is has become problematic or where support for maintaining changes is required; care leaver support; support for people who have accessed the criminal justice system and require support to integrate in the community; support for homelessness issues; help to reduce loneliness and social isolation; help with poverty or financial worries; we want people to thrive and feel like they are achieving positive things; across all age ranges.

Aspire is an Oxfordshire based employment charity which creates and brokers accessible, meaningful work placement, training and paid employment opportunities for individuals facing complex barriers to work - including on our own social enterprises, delivering grounds and property maintenance to commercial, public and private customers.

Aspire runs its own 'Through the Gate' project, engaging offenders in HMP Spring Hill and Bullingdon, as well as ex-offenders in the community in Oxfordshire, Milton Keynes and High Wycombe.

AVision for Empowerment CIC is a social enterprise that believes everyone has the ability to achieve success regardless of their past history. Our tailored inspirational workshops and holistic accredited programmes motivate and inspire people to achieve employment, self-employment or to further their education and careers through soft and hard outcomes. We have over nine years’ We have delivered in the community, employment agencies and the criminal justice system within 21 prisons across the UK including the West Midlands, North East, South East, East Midlands and the Yorkshire and Humber region in partnership with Ixion Holdings, APM. Staffordshire West Midlands Community Rehabilitation Company, Pertemps People Development Group, Catch22, Milton Keynes College, and National Career Service leading over 4000 participants along the road to desistance and to achieve long term sustainable career success.

BAC-IN is a culturally specific, Peer Led, award winning, 'grass roots' drug and alcohol recovery service. In 2003 BAC-IN developed a unique and successful 'transformative recovery' programme designed to help the Black and Minority Ethnic communities with recovery focused and offender rehabilitation support.

BAC-IN uses an integrated and culturally competent approach, which offers a diverse range of services designed to maximise transformative recovery, supporting individuals to take personal responsibility so that they may achieve freedom from addiction and become productive individuals within their communities.

Whilst BAC-IN is a culturally specific service, it is not culturally exclusive. We work in partnership across all sections of society, sharing good practice, consortia work and consultancy.

Bail Trust will be working with ex offenders offering Training & Employment Opportunities from the new centre based in Waltham Forrest where we will work with and employ mentors & volunteers once we are up and running. The rehabilitation programme is based on the organisation delivering the complete package with an assessment of needs for day treatment services along with functional skills test diagnostics for numeracy literacy ICT then we tailor a programme for each service user where we will deliver support right through including vocational training in construction not only job ready training also help with employment and any barriers each service user is facing as a new start the concentration will be (construction) how ever we will be looking to expand and grow our net work to help and support pathways in to different industries and sectors.

Basis Yorkshire supports indoor and street sexworkers in Leeds with information and access to services including sexual health, housing, physical and mental health support, benefits, support regarding sexual and other forms of violence and advocacy on behalf of sexworkers. We also deliver a specialist one to one service for young people experiencing sexual exploitation and abuse in Leeds, Bradford and Hull. We also offer training nationally in all our areas of expertise and related areas and campaign for the rights of our service users.

BearFace Theatre CIC (BFT) is an emerging community interest company using Applied Theatre methods to affect positive social change for people who are often labelled as on the margins of society. BFT uses applied theatre methods to invite positive social change to benefit individuals affected by the criminal justice system, their families and the wider community. Aiming to bring about an open sense of play, collaboration, creativity and memorable experience, inviting high quality reflective and devised theatre to be made and performed to a wide range of audiences, thus creating a wider social impact. BFT explore the use of theatre as a tool for effective conflict resolution and transformation. As a CIC BFT strive to empower the communities they work with and for by working co-operatively and collaboratively to co create work together. Using creative arts to lift marginalised and unheard voices, sharing message through inclusive high-quality performance & applied theatre programmes.

Beyond the Gate is a magazine published by ex-offenders for people entering and leaving custody. The point of the magazine is to encapsulate information that people in those situations need, and to sign-post them in the right direction to get any help they need. As well as features by these support groups and organisations, the magazine will also feature stories from people who have successfully broken their own offending cycles and are now leading crime-free lives.

Our purpose is to tackle disadvantage and give the best opportunities to the people of Blackpool by combining sport and physical activity with long-term support to combat the diverse issues affecting people’s lives. We use sport and physical activity in an intentional way to inspire changes in behaviours and attitudes amongst vulnerable people of all ages, although much of our work centres on enhancing the lives of children and young people through improved health, skills, opportunities and social connections. This includes individuals who are NEET, engaged with the youth justice system, stuck in Alternative Education, face difficult home lives or living with physical and mental disabilities.

We are a community of consultants who have made the most of our own personal experience and professional expertise. Together we strive for a society without disadvantage, marginalisation, or ignorance.

We collaborate with people involved in criminal justice, homelessness, substance misuse, mental health, domestic abuse, sex work, unemployment, youth violence, and other social issues.

We support these people and the communities they live and work in through the design and implementation of activities which help to understand and address the challenges they face.

Our mission is to provide: Women, ethnic diverse and 1st time entrants immediate well-being support and practical guidance, should they find themselves on the wrong side of the law

Through education initiatives we aim to discourage young people from crime by empowering them to explore, understand, challenge and change attitudes that may lead to anti-social or serious criminal activity.

Our Prison transitional support programme aids prison leavers (ordinarily first-time leavers) in re-engaging with their communities, thus transforming lives and reducing public spending.

C2C Social Action covers Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes which provides person centred support to offenders, helping them turn away from crime. Specialising in community work, we provide this service to people regardless of faith, or none, and regardless of their crimes, age, ethnic or cultural background, gender, sexuality or disability.

We have a number of projects providing specific services, with staff and volunteers working together in all projects including:

Dedicated Women's Centre in Northampton and Kettering and a new one about to open in Milton Keynes.
Community Support workers, engaging service user across the county for MHTR and RAR
Debt mentoring with CMA
ETE services
Wellbeing courses and services
C2C Grows - our allotment project
C2C Sews - our craft based sewing project
Walk & Talk
3 houses offering male accommodation for high risk offenders
Language courses for ESOL