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Wai Yin has been providing service to the Chinese community in the North West since 1988; however, our service covers both Chinese and other communities. We set out to tackle the challenges from culture and language differences and help ethnic minority communities to settle better into British society.

Provides supported accommodation, training, volunteering and employment opportunities for thoses leaving prison. Also provides training courses for volunteer mentors who support ex-offenders with their transition from prison into a local community.

The cores values of the charity are addressing stigma and improving the lives of people affected by homelessness itself or at risk of homelessness. The charity fills important gaps in local statutory, agency and charity services along with an understanding that is used widely across many client groups including ex offenders. The charity offers open-hearted, compassionate services delivered by outreach teams , drop in sessions and our Hastings Homeless Support Centre. We offer further wrap around support to many the many aspects of homelessness. We are mindful the average life expectancy of a homeless man is 45.9 years and 41.6 years for a homeless woman.
Our Inclusive Volunteering Programme is open to ex offenders who want to gain work experience and achieve a reference for future employment.
Our charity does not judge.

Our vision is for people of all ages to be safe, building ambitions for the future and reaching towards their full potential.

Our Mission -
Humankind creates services and support to meet people’s complex health and social needs, helping them to build healthier lives that have meaning and value for themselves and their families. We support local people to create stronger, better-connected communities.

Our Values -
Honest: We are open and realistic, building trusted relationships in which we challenge, collaborate and change
Committed: we are passionate about being the best that we can be, and we do this by keeping people at the heart of everything that we do
Inventive: we are ambitious, drawing together skills and resources to innovate and adapt in determined pursuit of our mission.

Wellbeing in Action exist to remove and prevent harm to people's physical, mental, financial, social and community health and wellbeing, through practical solutions that enable people to live their best life. We especially focus on supporting women who have faced trauma, including abuse, and their families. We provide a range of befriending services, specialist trauma therapy facilities and use social action to distribute aid such as household items, clothing, baby equipment and provide support as people rebuild their lives. We work on the basis of a transaction of kindness where every person has a time they need to reach out for help, and all equally have times they can extend to others. Maintaining pride, dignity and being a member for life, rather than being "treated" or "fixed" is part of our ethos. Our motto is 'If we can, we do' and we roll our sleeves up to meet individual needs that make a difference.

Women in Prison is a national charity, dedicated to making a difference to the lives of women affected by the criminal justice system by providing holistic, women-centred support in prisons and the community in order to enable them to meet their resettlement needs and reduce the risk of re-offending. We also educate the public and policy makers about women in contact with the criminal justice system, to promote alternatives to custody and provide a voice for women’s experiences.

To provide a holistic one stop service that combines centre based and community based services for and by women.
Focussing on meeting the needs, aspirations and desires of women in order to help them have an improved quality of life.

Word on the Kerb C.I.C. is a Community Interest Company focused on bringing the arts to marginalised communities. The organisation serves individuals affected by the criminal justice system, homelessness, addiction, and poverty, using theatre, storytelling, and workshops to inspire change.

Its flagship solo show, Something to Take Off the Edge, explores life in prison, addressing themes of friendship, addiction, literacy, and mental health. The show is performed in prisons, hostels, and community centres, often followed by Q&A sessions and creative writing workshops.

The organisation also runs spoken word performances and workshops, empowering participants to build confidence, develop skills, and express themselves.

Future plans include expanding tours and enhancing workshops.

We operate a clean, dry 88-bed accommodation site for single homeless individuals aged between 16 and 64. Our aim is to support and empower people with the skills to achieve and maintain independent accommodation in the community. We accommodate through an interview and background check process.

Sussex Central YMCA provides a comprehensive range of services for vulnerable children, young people and families in Brighton & Hove, East and West Sussex.

Provision includes:-

Housing & Homelessness Prevention
• 228 bed spaces of supported accommodation
• 70 young persons tenancy / floating support
• Housing Advice Centre for 16-25 year olds
• Private Rented Sector Development Work

Therapeutic & Family Services
• Counselling in 75 Schools pan Sussex and community based counselling services
• Family Support and Mediation Services

Youth Support & Education, Employment, and Training Services
• Accredited Engagement & Learning Opportunities for 16-18’s
• Key stage 4 accredited alternative curriculum courses
• Two Youth Advice Centres
• Mental Health & Well-being Project
• Child / Young Persons Sexual Exploitation Project
• Specialist Teenage Pregnancy / Teen Parent Work

We facilitate a 'paper bond' scheme for housing and homelessness, and practice placements for student social workers. We are also responsible for the SLA of a local community centre, as well as delivering ex-offender resettlement.

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.

You and Me Counselling provides young people/adults and their families with one to one, group, coaching, mentoring, teaching, tutoring, role modelling, information, advice, counselling and psychological therapies to enable psychological adjustment in young/adults offenders. We liaise and work alongside schools to identify and provide early intervention to potential young people at risk of developing anti-social, disruptive and truancy behaviour in schools that can lead to exclusions from schools.
Reintegrate offenders back into the community: We offer holistic support to adolescent offenders, with the aim enable psychological adjustment support mechanism that will. (1) Rebuild the young people/adult’s self-confidence, (2) restore their feeling of self-worth, and (3) prepare them for employment. You & Me Counselling are also looking to break the cycle of re-offending by restoring the young person adult’s relationship with their family and re-connecting them with their community.

Youth Action is an award-winning youth development agency providing a range of community-based services to meet the needs of its clients.
Having worked with a wide number of people over the past 10 years in a variety of mentoring roles, Youth Action now wishes to use its experience of working with the BAME sector and move into the offender rehabilitation arena. We are looking for organisations to partner with in this work.
We seek to influence policies to ensure that they are more youth friendly and therefore young people have better opportunities in life and have a greater voice in their community. We also passionately pursue the organising of bespoke opportunities to meet the varying needs of young people.

1) The rehabilitation of ex-offenders and the prevention of crime and anti social behaviour, in particular but not exclusively, by:
A) Facilitating their integration and constructive engagement in society;
B) The provision of support, information and advocacy for ex-offenders, those at risk of offending and the victims of crime; and
C) The promotion and development of best practice models of integrated offender management.
2) The promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.

Established as a charity in 1986, YSS supports individuals who face multiple life challenges across Warwickshire and West Mercia. With a paid staff team of 50 and over 50 volunteers, YSS provides custody and community-based support to a wide variety of individuals and have particular experience and expertise of supporting those involved in the CJS and those most poorly served by public and statutory services.
YSS services include 1:1, intensive, holistic support to veterans in the CJS; those experiencing familial imprisonment; appropriate adult service; targeted Early Help; as well as supporting people into accommodation on release from prison.