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The Bridge Programme provides mentoring, support workers and activities to people with mental health, homelessness, domestic abuse, drugs, alcohol, and other offending issues.

BWC is the lead agency for the Inspire partnership – an enhanced community provision for women at all stages of involvement in CJS from point of arrest, sentence and release to continuing integration in the community. The Inspire approach is empowering, holistic and multi-agency. Inspire partners include: Threshold BHT, Brighton Oasis Project, Rise and Survivors network.

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

C2C is a Northamptonshire wide Christian charity which provides holistic, 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 a new "pop up" centre in Kettering
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
4 houses offering same sex accommodation
Language courses for ESOL

CAIS is a registered charity and leading voluntary sector provider of personal support services in Wales. It helps people who are having problems with addictions, mental health, personal development and employment – as well as offering assistance and information to their families and friends. Its wide range of services includes residential treatment and rehabilitation, counselling, peer mentoring, supporting people in their homes, assisting people back into work or education, group work and other motivational interventions. CAIS can also offer a comprehensive range of training courses, together with training and support for employers. It is very active in the field of employment interventions including the development of our own social enterprises. CAIS is committed to working in partnership with others in keeping with the All Wales Strategy – Tackling Substance Misuse in Wales. All of its services aim to help people to recover from addiction and rebuild normal, productive lifestyles.

Career Connect is a charity whose core business is the provision of all-age careers information, advice, guidance and support. We enable people to make realistic choices, based on sound information, to help them achieve their potential in learning, training and employment. Established in 2001, we deliver services across NW England providing: The National Careers Service across NW NOMS CFO Evolution contract for NW of England through our wholly owned subsidiary Achieve. We deliver a programme that prepares and supports offenders into employment with a 32% sustained outcome rate. Careers information, advice and guidance services for young people (formerly badged as Connexions) across Greater Merseyside and Salford. Unlocking Potential social impact bond funded programme to support 4200 young people with behavioural, moderate mental health and wellbeing issues prepare for and enter the world of work. We also have staff embedded in Trouble Families teams and an adviser in Hindley YOI.

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.

Caritas Care's ACE (Assisted Community Engagement) Project provides an assisted seamless transition from custody to community and reduces the risk of reoffending by ensuring that essential needs are met without it being necessary to revert to a life of crime. Support is provided by volunteers and paid staff to address their needs, as identified by NOMS.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Our criminal justice department supports those with experience of the criminal justice system who are looking to rehabilitate and step away from criminality. Our LifeNavigate programmes in both South Yorkshire and Merseyside provide the opportunity for people to holistically address their cycle of criminality in a holistic and trauma-informed way. Our work reduces violence and creates a safer society for us all.

MODERN SLAVERY
Causeway understands the deep trauma survivors of Modern Slavery have experienced, and believes in empowering them to live free and meaningful lives. Our anti-slavery services seek to prevent the re-exploitation of survivors, protect them while they recover, and support their progression back into realising their hopes and ambitions as they take their place in society.

Help finding employment & training
Supported volunteering
Life skills training and accredited learning
Mentoring & Befriending
Advice (welfare rights, housing, debt, employment etc)
Information, advice & guidance

Certitude runs Beyond Prison, a Prison Mentoring & Resettlement service which provides a range of support; this includes Peer Mentoring coaching, goal setting, intensive support for Mentors in supporting other offenders in custody, volunteering, Mental Health workshops, in-Prison Mental Health & Mentoring Education and support, BAME work. We hope to resume our formerly successful resettlement and through the gate aspect of our service in 2015. Improving the skills and confidence for the offenders that participate in our programme so they can build a future 'Beyond Prison'. The aim of Beyond Prison is to improve well-being by adopting a holistic and person centred approach to Peer Mentoring and reduce the likelihood of re-offending for those being released from Prison.

Certitude also works in partnership with BEH Mental Health Trust, providing a forensic Employment,Training & Education Service. We take referrals from the forensic teams in North London.

Chaos Theory is a violence prevention charity (1141485) founded in April 2010 . The Violence Interruption Project (VIP) is modelled on a highly acclaimed violence prevention programme called Cure Violence Chicago. Concentrating on communities most severely affected by gun and knife violence, our programme uses ‘Violence Interrupters’ (VIs) to identify potentially violent episodes. We target high-risk individuals (those known to be perpetrators and or victims of violence crime) and assist them in finding alternate ways of settling disputes without resorting to violence. Our outreach service works with disadvantaged people in the community/custody to support them in their efforts to live independently and successfully. We visit, befriend, advise and guide the young people through difficult stages in their life encouraging them to develop a range of strategies to create change and achieve positive outcomes without offending or resulting to violence.

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.

Children North East is a regional children's charity, working to promote the rights of children and young people and to counter the effects of inequality on them, their families and communities. It does this by promoting positive family relationships, creating opportunities, encouraging community engagement and influencing social policy.

Children’s Links was established in Lincolnshire to support Kids Clubs. Responding to our service users needs and identified gaps we expanded the range and geographical extent of our services. We now work nationally and have substantial teams in Hampshire and Bedfordshire as well as the East Midlands and East Anglia. The services we deliver include direct support to children and families, training and sector support.
In 2005 we set up our social enterprise Linking Up, a childcare voucher provider.

Choice for Change provides an unplanned-pregnancy advisory service and counselling support for pregnancy and child loss including child separation support. This service is available currently in two women's prisons, HMP Bronzefield and HMP Downview. The organisation also provides the 'I AM Project', a relationships and sexual health education course for offenders, ex-offenders and other vulnerable groups. We work closely with other psychological therapies within the prisons and other voluntary and statutory agencies.

Cheshire West Citizens Advice is the largest independent advice service in Cheshire and one of the largest Third Sector advice agencies in the North West. It is the second busiest CAB in the North West and the seventh busiest in England and Wales.
Cheshire West Citizens Advice provides free, independent, impartial, confidential advice and is committed to promoting equality and the redress of inequality. On average we deal with over 14,000 unique enquiries/issues annually including: debt, finance, fuel poverty, income maximisation, housing, homelessness, employment, consumer, legal, family law, relationships, immigration and welfare benefits.

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 ,
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Communicate is a Community Interest Company based in the North West of England providing high quality innovative Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) services.
Formed in 2011, we are committed to enabling effective speech, language and communication in order to maximise life chances.

We aim to reduce reoffending through education. We deliver Middlesex University-accredited basic counselling skills courses and interpersonal communication skills courses to inmates and ex-offenders, as a first step towards rehabilitation and to reintroduce inmates to mainstream learning. We also run partners' sessions for inmates about to be released. Our community courses (Person to Person, learning to get on with the people you live and work with) are for those at risk of offending as well as ex-offenders.