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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.

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.

CAP promotes and supports enterprise in all its forms. Our work is therefore broad - from supporting business start-up initiatives to personal development programmes to social enterprise incubation. Our main prison services are:
- Be the Boss - self-employment training
- Enterprise coaching and mentoring
- Action learning initiatives, including our new Inside Out Conversions training and work-readiness programme
- You Can Too - personal/professional planning workshop

In addition to our direct client support services the CAP team also undertakes:
- Project evaluations
- Income diversification advice
- Strategic and business planning
- Fundraising support
- Business management training

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.

Cruse Bereavement Support aims to promote the well-being of bereaved people and to enable anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people. The charity provides support and offers information, advice, education and training services. Also, go to www.rd4u.org.uk, which is a website designed for young people by bereaved young people.

Employment4ALL is devoted to combating the social exclusion ex offender job seekers face trying to gain employment. It was founded to provide employment opportunities with revolutionary and forward thinking employers with hiring practices, for all those with experience of disadvantage to gain employment, independence, inclusion and control over their lives. This includes, but is not limited to, those with experience of the Criminal Justice System, poverty, Homelessness, Physical or Learning Disability, Identify as BAME/BIPOC, Care Leavers,Lone Parents, Ex Armed Forces, Domestic Violence Survivors. The impact of Covid-19 has widened inequalities amongst disadvantaged people and created a massive increase in unemployment. We adopt an holistic approach and will also work with jobseekers to assist with the wrap around support that we know works and is require, for example, confidence building and wellbeing support, peer group mentoring and support, specialist employment events.

Hart & Joy delivers mindset coaching, education, mentoring and signposting services to prison leavers and those working with and supporting them.

We offer learning programmes including coaching and mentoring for prospective employees before, during and after transition periods (e.g. leaving prison and moving into employment), and education and learning programmes, consisting of coaching and mentoring for prospective employers (of marginalised groups and prison leavers).
We work with ex offenders searching for employment alongside their prospective and current employers in order to promote recruitment and retention, creating an inclusive, understanding and welcoming workplace before and throughout the employment process.

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.

Intermediaries For Justice is a registered charity with a vision of opening the ‘accessible door’ to justice; where all people understand the questions they are asked and can tell what has happened. Intermediaries For Justice promotes and supports the work of intermediaries, who are communication specialists working with vulnerable people in the justice system.

Communication is a two-way process. People need to understand what they are being asked, be able to answer, and have that answer understood clearly by others. Intermediaries use their skills as communication specialists to support this process. Intermediaries have a unique role within the criminal justice system that enables them to:
• Use their expertise in communication to work out what people can understand
• Suggest ways to ask questions that will be easily understood
• Assess people’s ability to put their thoughts into words
• Suggest strategies so that people can give evidence and explain what happened clearly and cohere

Magistra Civitas CIC is a social enterprise with over 48 years collective experience working across Probation, Prisons, Reducing Reoffending Pathways, Health, Social and Justice sectors.

We provide training and interventions to support organisations and individuals to achieve positive and sustainable outcomes. All of our programmes are Open College Network Accredited and underpinned by Restorative Practice principles.

Our innovative approach takes the best technical aspects of 'What Works', such as CBT, risk, need and responsivity, programme integrity, skilled practitioner input, monitoring and evaluation, and applies this within a 'relational' restorative practice approach.

Magistra's mission is 'Simplifying Complexity', therefore the hallmark of Magistra designed courses is that they are inclusive of individual needs.

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.

The Restorative Justice for All (RJ4All) International Institute is a charitable NGO with a mission to advance community cohesion and human rights. We redistribute power in a more equal way by delivering social justice projects, educational programmes and high quality volunteering opportunities to the most marginalised groups of society.

We do this by using the power of education, sports and art, as well as the practices (mediation, conferencing, circles, dialogue, workshops) and values of restorative justice including power sharing, fairness, equality, dignity and respect.

We are the leading provider of tax support within prisons. We are the only prison organisation that is a member of both the HMRC Individual Stakeholder Forum and the HMRC Voluntary Sector Tax Resolution Service (VSTRS). We specialise with prisoners that have tax issues, tax debt or simply need to file their self-assessment tax return.

We have an integrated EETEA model for reducing reoffending and reintegration of prisoners on release.

Engagement: We have been working in prisons as a prisoner led initiative since 2015 providing information on sentence planning and progression.

Education and Training: Our Academy provides fully funded soft skills critical thinking and personal development courses, as well as vocational NVQs, and apprenticeships to serving prisoners and prison leavers.

Employment: We offer a careers service for serving prisoners nearing end of sentence and prison leavers. Prisoners who enter our Pathways Programme receive a guaranteed offer of employment on release with one of our sponsoring employers.

Accommodation: We aim to ensure those on our Pathways Programme are financially supported into accommodation.

Mentoring: We provide 12 months post-release mentoring for Pathways graduates those who need it.

Coaching: We provide coaching to sponsoring employers staff on reintegration support needs.