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The charity provides support to the general community through cold-water-sports activities, regeneration of natural habitat projects in the outdoor environment, education, bee-keeping, restoration of boats and traction engines, providing a seafront venue as a safe meeting area, bespoke vocational and academic education and training, links to other support agencies such as NHS-Op Courage, veterans welfare and mental health support.

Catalyst is the leading voice for the voluntary and community sector (VCS) in Stockton on Tees – around 800 groups. It takes the lead on the Third Sector Strategy – an overarching document which sets out the relationship between the Local Authority and VCS organisations and how they intend to work together. It also works to develop stronger links between the VCS and other commissioners e.g. Health Service. Through its work, it hopes to shape and influence policy, create opportunities for the wider VCS and develop projects that will support VCS organisations.

Crest Co-operative are a social enterprise based in North Wales we operate a number of different community businesses and work with offenders on behalf of Wales Probation providing Community Payback. We also deliver back to work programmes specifically for ex-offenders helping them find employment employment locally and at the same time working with them to improve their skills and soft skills.

The world for children, young people, and adults is changing at a rate that presents them with significant challenges, pressures, and barriers. Now, more than ever, they need consistent guidance and expectations, positive role models, and activities that keep them occupied and engaged.

Gro-Mentoring has been delivering award-winning mentoring services since 2010, transforming the lives of children and young people, and adults in the Midlands. We work with primary schools, secondary schools, and pupil referral units, prisons and probation to support all children and young people and adults, including those at risk of educational exclusion or anti-social and/or criminal behaviour in adolescence and early adult life.

Everything we do is done with passion, care, and quality. We look forward to showing you the difference our mentors make.

PRHA has provided housing & support since 1850, registering as a RSL in 1975. We support single homeless people, rough sleepers, those with mental health support needs, substance misuse issues, families, care leavers, older people and ex-offenders, delivering specialist services to some of the most socially excluded people in East London. We operate in the LB Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Islington & City of London. We provide a range of hostel accommodation, floating support, specialist services & general needs housing.
We have services specifically for people involved in the criminal justice system: Two mental health Link Worker projects (link people with mental health issues back into support), probation based housing advice service, a women's one-stop shop & a user-led peer support service. We coordinate a Community of Practice for frontline workers to discuss good practice in working with people with complex needs.

Rhubarb Farm is a horticultural social enterprise supporting vulnerable people with multiple and complex needs - ex-offenders, recovering drug and alcohol misusers, people with mental and physical ill health, with physical and learning disability, school students and older people. We call everyone volunteers as that recognises the contribution of their work to the enterprise - growing vegetables and fruit, carpentry, arts and crafts and cookery. 60% of our staff started as volunteers including 2 ex-offenders. We have employed 12 ex-offenders in 10 years. We operate peer-mentoring, run a variety of training courses, including ASDAN qualifications. We run a weekly Community Cafe, a Community Pantry, and a Know Your Food Project. We have a Garden Maintenance team and a Men in Sheds project. Volunteers can get involved in anything on site. We take people on probation and newly released from prison. Our main purpose is to help people change their lives for the better.

We use the waterways to combat the effects of social exclusion, and we have a particular interest in the preparation for release of people coming to the end of their sentence.

We aim to facitate confidence and lifeskills through the creative arts, access to culture and new technology. We work mainly with the offending community and young people who are at risk of offending. Stretch achieves its objectives by delivering a variety of innovative and bespoke projects, enhancing the rehabilitation and education of these marginalized communities. We are clear advocates of the benefits of cultural education in engaging into society those that have suffered social exclusion and fallen through the welfare net.

At present, our primary focus is the delivery of Stretch Digital, a digital literacy project with prisoners providing a platform for the making and dissemination of digital stories using technology to bridge the digital divide. We equip participants with skills in new media in order to share their personal experiences of the criminal justice system and the life that lead them there.

The Wise Group works in partnership with the Scottish Prison Service and Ministry of Justice. We are a leading social enterprise working to lift people out of poverty. As an enterprise we build bridges to opportunities for the most vulnerable in our society. Our team does this through relational mentoring services delivered throughout the UK.

Every day we support our customers into jobs, work to lift people out of fuel poverty, and help people coming out of prison to build a better future. Our work is varied, and underlying everything we do is a passion and commitment for social justice and a fairer society for all.

Tomorrow’s Women is a Charity for all women aged 18+ to make positive lifestyle changes. Working with female offenders, and those on the periphery, it is committed to reducing offending in adult women.
An award winning charity, with a multi-agency approach they support women through targeted interventions to address underlying support areas for each woman.
Open Monday-Friday 9am - 3:30pm they work across Wirral and Cheshire West & Chester. TW have achieved outstanding outcomes with women into employment, recovery and away from (re)offending through service engagement, learning opportunities & addressing behaviours in an all-female safe community hub.
Tomorrow's Women hosts the National Probation Service & Merseyside Community Rehabilitation Company whose dedicated team of Offender Managers supervise all female offenders subject to Community Orders and Licensed Conditions.
Referrals can be made via professionals or women can self-refer.

YMCA North Tyneside is a registered charity that supports
children and young people to be healthy, happy and connected. We focus specifically on young people through our supported accommodation (homeless young people with multiple and complex needs) and our youth and community work in local areas of high deprivation, some of the highest in the country. We support all ages in the community through our Nursery, Gym and Cafe. Our award winning (Youth Matter Awards, 2019) Supported Accommodation project has doubled in the last 18 months. We support young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessess across North Tyneside and neighbouring boroughs of Northumberland, South Tyneside and Newcastle. Our young people have multiple and complex needs such as mental health problems, learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorders, attachment disorders ADHD and ADD. Many are young offenders and some have been in prison.