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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

Beam is a social enterprise that delivers tailored 1-2-1 support to people in prison or on probation to progress them into secure employment and housing.
We work with 35 local authorities nationally and have been commissioned by the DWP across London, in Scotland, and the Midlands. Our proven model - which combines person-centred 1-2-1 support, the lived experience of our caseworkers, and the power of our innovative technology, has enabled 97% of our service users to maintain desistance. Since our founding in 2017, we have supported over 1,000 people to achieve high-quality employment and housing, despite being out of work for 5 years on average. Our comprehensive in-work and tenancy sustainment support has ensured 86% of our service users sustain employment for over 3 months and 96% sustain tenancies for over 6 months.

Career Matters (CM) is a social enterprise, providing career services and developing the future workforce through face-to-face and digital solutions. Enabling social mobility is the foundation for every partnership solution that Career Matters supports across education, health, social care and industry sectors.
As a social enterprise, we have a particular focus on lived experience communities, including children who are in local authority care, young people and adults who have left care and
individuals who have been involved in the criminal justice system. Both of these communities face the cliff edge of care and we seek to create a support system to connect them into futures with hope and opportunity.
Career Matters exists to support those most removed from traditional pathways into education, employment and training to find inspirational and fulfilling career pathways.

Children Heard and Seen is the only charity in the country with a specific focus on supporting children and young people with a parent in prison in their own communities, the people who care for them and reducing intergenerational crime . Interventions are delivered in the children's homes , schools, communities and online. Our offer includes specialist 121 support, group work, 121 mentoring outdoor activities and a yearly residential.

Independent support and guidance of 5 tier age groups of up to 10 individuals at any workshop/youthclub or project of various topics. . 5-10years , 11-15, 16-25 , and 25+ (adults/learners in line of work experience and shadowing groups... That create a gap and void where many STRUGGLE by personal circumstances affecting their actual physical or mental ability to maintain full time employment... My way of working... Is providing the skills, aswell as Higher education vocation and Certification, in whatever subject particularly interested in at individual wish or need .. I work by non profitable means, but produce such a significance in lives of need... Where costs aren't extortionate, it's bespoke to meet learners needs and for community being with interest...bit serves purpose in lives as academic and work life naturally enhances their Capabilities and Abilities ,
All majority comes by care, compassion, nature and roled out by entrepreneurship, associated by RELEVENT networking assist

"Coaching Inside and Out (CIAO) enables self-determined and sustainable change in people convicted of offences, or at risk of offending, in prison and the community through life coaching.
CIAO is unusual and radical in its psychological depth: it gets to the root of why people feel ‘stuck’ and empowers them to move forward. It supports and challenges using thought-provoking questions to generate ideas and insights. It doesn’t give advice or provide mentoring, instead it gives choice and responsibility.

The charity also provides training and facilitates Coaching Groups to develop capacity in others, as well as coaching staff working with its clients and families supporting them.

CIAO is often brought in to help highly disadvantaged and vulnerable people where other approaches haven’t worked. People whose lives have broken down beyond recognition with the most challenging behaviour.

It’s never too early and never too late.”

We support women leaving prison from the moment of release through peer mentor matching with a lived experience individual who provides support, signposting and a buddy system.
We then provide a 4 day workshop program for exoffenders : "Digital Skills for Work," "Employability for Exoffenders," "Building Resilience - Emotional & Financial," and "Lived Experience - Owning Your Story," Our 4 day program takes women from behind bars to boardrooms and supports meaningful employment. Our core goals are to support women in reconnecting with others, their communities and to rebuild their lives with access meaningful well paid work – not just run-of-the-mill traditional employment prison pathways. We believe in aspiration and inspiration for all, empowerment, education and employment as tenets of reducing reoffending and creating life-long stability and rehabilitation. Face to face teaching in communities and prisons. Online learning platform available.

To support humans inside and outside of their cells and once through the gate with greater mind management tools.

Thames Valley Partnership: "protecting victims, supporting offenders and their families". Thames Valley Partnership works in partnership with organisations operating within the Criminal Justice system and allied services to provide long-term solutions to the problems of crime and social exclusion. Our programmes include restorative justice, a range of support services for victims of crime, work in the area of domestic abuse, support for the families of offenders, early interventions to support young people, mentoring for offenders resettling back into the community.

Imagine support service users with dual diagnosis including mental health and substance misuse. We provide employment services for this group. We provide person-centered support for people with mental health and substance misuse issues and offending profiles. We have specialist skills in supporting women and men with mental health needs who have offending histories. Peer Support Workers are employed with substantial lived experience with regard to mental illness and substance misuse. We provide Mentoring Services whereby volunteers (many have lived experience) support service users to expand social networks and engage in mainstream activities. Imagine have substantial experience of providing Accommodation and Floating Support Services for this client group. Our specialised services support women with a Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis along with complex mental health needs. We also support men with PD who have been discharged from prison.

Insider Access is a unique not for profit social enterprise with a passion to engage non-traditional learners into learning, employment and achieving their fullest potential in society.

Insider Access works closely with the Ministry for Justice, NOMS, Probation Trusts, Jobcentre Plus/DWP, is an accredited NCFE Centre and approved by the Skills Funding Agency.

Income generated by Insider Access (a not for profit social enterprise) supports:

* Innovative training in the community for unemployed, ex-offenders, hard to reach groups
* Innovative training in prisons
* Through the gate support
* Informal offender mentoring
* Work placement opportunities
* Reduce re-offending in society
* Make our communities safer
* Help all individuals to achieve their highest goals

What is ISW Services?

ISW Services CIC is a non-profit organisation providing support services, advocacy and guidance. Here at ISW Services CIC, we run an independent, confidential support service which is catered to the individual needs of the client. Our support workers have several years of experience and qualifications relating to relevant support.

How can we support you?
We provide advocates to support clients in a variety of areas. These include:

Benefits · Debt · Housing · The prison and probation system · Education and training · Business support · Life skills · Bill management · Complaints handling · Social care · Family law · Power of Attorney registration · Advocacy · Mentoring · Guidance · Referrals · Home visits for vulnerable clients

Locked UP Potential exists to fill a gap that the justice system is unable to fulfil, due to lack of funding, lack of resources and high caseloads. The peer-led eco system, that we are create through Locked UP Potential, can lead those trapped in the system to lead lives that are crime free and will keep communities safe. The eco system gives opportunities to those with a lived experience to be mentors, facilitators, co-facilitators and offer consultancy support that will support justice decision makers to create a farer system for all.
The aim of Locked UP Potential is to reduce prison and probation numbers, reduce reoffending/recall rates and to ultimately reduce the prison population by offering early help support to the communities that feed the current prison system.
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Locked UP Potential will deliver talks as an introduction to what we do. These talks will be from a mixture of cohorts who have successfully left a

Our Coaching Company is a one-stop service provider aimed at people coming from a disadvantaged background men and women 16+, we specilise in working with homeless people and offenders. We offer one-on-one and peer mentoring group sessions, focus groups, and workshops. We also have our own Facebook group. We aim to empower personal transformation, compassion, and well-being. Founded by someone who has walked the path, we understand the challenges our clients face. By addressing triggers, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for growth, we empower individuals to create a fulfilling and purpose-driven life. Together, we illuminate the path to self-discovery and help our clients embrace a brighter and more empowered future and live the best version of themselves. We have a counseling team that helps with trauma and more. We are always seeking collaboration and partnership to help cover all 7 areas of rehabilitation and are willing to travel to make a change and build better communities.

Offploy is on a mission to make the world a safer place by supporting people at risk of offending to maximise their life's potential.
We run peer-mentoring and support services commissioned by private funders, DWP, MoJ and our own retained surplus.

Offploy also provides HR consultancy services and training to employers to support them to actively hire people with convictions.

Our in-house CRM instantly tracks our impact, reports information to commissioners and ensures our colleagues can spend less time on admin and more time on supporting people.

Offploy sees over 800 people per year access our service across England and Wales.

Pact is a pioneering national charity that supports prisoners, people with convictions, and their children and families. We provide caring and life-changing services at every stage of the criminal justice process: in court, in prison, on release, and in the community, based on a public health model of practice.

We work in more than 60 prisons and provide prison-based family engagement and social workers, Visitors’ Centres, visitor support, supervised play, catering, family activities, relationship and parenting education programmes, court and community family support, resettlement support and community-based mentoring and befriending programmes. Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & Wales.

We also run the HMPPS contracted national Prisoners' Families Helpline which can be reached seven days a week on 0808 808 2003.

Our mission is to show Christ’s love to people in prison by coming alongside them and supporting them. We seek, through prayer and practical care, to help, support and develop a Christian ministry to people in prison and their families.

We do this through our network of over 2,500 volunteers. We are currently ministering in almost all of the 120 prisons in England and Wales.

SherlockAI is a not-for-profit CIC who passionately believe in supporting those engaged with the criminal justice system to create better lives for themselves and our communities. We are a team of people with lived experience of the criminal justice system, Probation workers and people who have years of experience within the third sector. We combine this experience to provide excellent service to our partners. Our goal is to leverage emerging AI technology to create better outcomes for people engaged with the criminal justice system.

​But we're just getting started. We want to evolve SherlockAI into a personalised life coach companion to help each individual achieve better outcomes. We do that better as a team working with partners.

We are a national charity that teaches emergency life saving skills to young people. Specifically we target high risk young people that are likely to be affected by violent crime. Our teaching includes what to do when someone is bleeding and what to do when someone is unconscious. As well as providing them with key skills, we hope to empower these individuals to make a positive difference in their area, instilling a sense of social responsibility and creating a lasting change in their attitudes towards violent crime. All teaching is provided by medical students or qualified doctors who work tirelessly to ensure all content is of the highest quality. Our teaching plans are custom made and are specifically targeted at young people. They are designed to be simple, interactive and memorable. We already work with numerous centres nationwide, including youth groups, charities, secure units and youth offending teams, providing regular sessions to a range of young people.

The Arukah Project CIC is a not-for-profit community interest company that aims to raise awareness of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma and how it impacts the lives of those who are in contact with the Justice System, Care experienced or have experienced addictions (alcohol, substance misuse). We have developed an emotional health and safety framework that includes education, sharing experience and practical learning of emotional freedom techniques (EFT). These highly effective self-help evidence-based tools act rapidly on the nervous system to support emotional regulation and we combine this the integration of trauma-informed practice.
We offer the following activities:
- group workshops for up to 12 people split over 2 days
- train-the-trainer group workshops of up to 10 per group
- peer-led interventions and training
- dedicated 1-to-1 interventions
- compassion fatigue/ resilient practitioner program for staff
- online and F2F community
- bereavement service