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

Empowerment Charity Lancashire works alongside people facing marginalisation, disadvantage, and complex life challenges, ensuring that their lived experiences directly shape the support they receive. The organisation provides advocacy services designed to help individuals—particularly those who feel unheard—express their needs and access appropriate services that improve their quality of life. Many of the people they support are dealing with overlapping difficulties such as domestic abuse, health and social care issues, and social isolation, creating layers of disadvantage that require compassionate, tailored intervention.

A major aspect of Empowerment’s work centres on supporting survivors of domestic abuse, including children and young people. Through consultations, educational programmes, and youth‑led engagement, the charity ensures that the real‑world experiences of those affected guide service development and campaigning efforts. This lived‑experience‑driven approach plays a crucial role in shaping local responses to issues such as sexual harassment, harmful attitudes, and violence against women and girls, with hundreds of young people contributing their voices to drive meaningful change.

Across its diverse services, Empowerment supports around 380 people weekly, consistently prioritising individuals who experience multiple layers of vulnerability and social disadvantage, and helping them work toward safer, more empowered futures.

English PEN believes in safeguarding the freedom to read and write. Its Readers and Writers programme brings writers and books into closed and neglected communities in particular prisons. We work in partnership with education, libraries and writers in residence.

We offer a Level 3 Diploma in Engineering Surveying to anyone who has a basic competency in Maths and English. We also offer other add-on courses

EnjoyRunning is a new CIC set up to provide a framework for a feasibility study and eventual community programme using running as a part of rehabilitation plans for offenders, particularly those with addiction or mental health needs.
I am a former social worker, social work lecturer and researcher, currently working as a post-doctoral research fellow in Crime Science at UCL. I am also a running coach with experience running generic community running groups.
The prisons and regions ticked are the scope of the planned programme, and I am looking to build partnerships with key agencies to develop this project further, while conducting a systematic review of research to test the proof-of-concept for the programme

Enterprise Inspiration works with individuals who have criminal records and who want to set up their own businesses/ be self employed/ social enterprise. We work in prison and community settings. We work with all kinds of offenders (male and female and including sex offenders). We are real business people who are skilled teachers/ trainers and have been working with offenders for over 5 years. We specialise in detailed advice on business financial aspects (e.g. tax, insurance, getting loans, legal compliance) as well as real business planning including personal capabilities needed, customers, disclosure and licences and business routines. We provide flexible services including group training, 1-2-1 business coaching and mentoring, financial and insurance advice. 1-2-1s can be face to face and phone based. We deal directly with issues people have with HMRC. We prefer working in partnership including seeking joint funding especially with those who take a holistic approach.

The organisations is changing futures through entrepreneurship. We work with men and women in custody, and those on probation in the community. Its services enable participants to discover and unlock their entrepreneurial talent and develop a pathway to a crime free future.
Its main activities are:
1: Education and Learning workshops
A: EXPLORATION:
The participants skills and experience are explored so they can understand how those skills can be developed and utilised. This will enable them to consider future career options either as an employee or becoming self-employed.
B: INSIGHTS:
Focuses on the key elements and steps needed to become self-employed. This includes: Business planning, sales and marketing techniques, finance and funding, trading legally and HMRC requirements.
2: Employment and Training
A: SMART SUBCONTRACTING:
Provides the participants with a detailed guide on how to become a legally registered sub-contractor in the construction sector.

Equus Solutions delivers Equine Assisted Therapy (EAT) to a number of client groups; the programmes embrace addiction therapy, mental health problems, depression, eating disorders, trauma and PTSD. We also deliver a programme of therapeutic riding for autistic clients and others with physical and learning disabilities. In addition, we run a programme of work experience and life-skills improvement.

We are a North Wales based community arts organisation bringing arts - including writing, visual arts and photography - closer to people who are furthest away from them through social, economic or health reasons.
Members of The Altered Images project at Ty Newydd Approved Premises, Bangor, for men newly released from prison, recently won five Koestler Awards. The project started in January 2014. In November 2015, with ACW funding, Altered Images extended to Plas yn Wern Approved Premises, near Wrexham. In 2014 we ran The Word:Conwy:Y Gair, a celebration of words in all forms from poetry to rap, comic strips to braille, sign language, graffiti art, fiction, comic strips, songs...planned again for 2016. TEA also organise weekly poetry and arts activities for older people in lunch centres and hospital in North Wales

ESCAPE Family Support provides support and interventions to drug and alcohol users and their families in Northumberland, including those involved in the Criminal Justice System.

Escaping Victimhood was founded in 2007 by criminal justice professionals, who saw that many victims of serious crimes (such as the murder of a child) had extensive and on-going needs that were not being met.

We deliver four day (plus a one day follow up day) residential workshops designed to enable participants to ‘understand the past and embrace the future’. We also inform those working with victims of serious crime about the impact of trauma in their lives.

Our programme was developed to address the issues and helps restore participants to a more 'normal' life. It is unique and is delivered by skilled and professional facilitators. They are overseen by a lead facilitator, who is a highly experienced victim liaison worker and ensures strong and safe leadership of the workshop. . The structure of the programme is psycho-educative and therapeutic (with a small t) in a generic rather than specific sense.

Everlasting Evangelical Ministry is a faith-based charity which aims at help the East London borough of Newham, one of the six poorest London boroughs with a high crime rate among its young people. Everlasting Evangelical Ministry has begun consultation on a pilot project to provide education, employment, befriending and monitoring services to those young people in Newham who have experience of the Criminal Justice System. This project aims at helping young offenders to reintegrate into the society and therefore eradicate the probability of reoffending.

We work with people with lived experience of the criminal justice system to help them create their own employment and peer support networks by developing their own co-operative enterprises.

Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau aims:

• To provide the advice people need for the problems they face

• To improve the policies and practises that affect people’s lives

Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.

Exeter Community Initiatives (ECI) is a local charity that was started in 1993. The initial aim was to help local people facing poverty and homelessness, through projects such as St. Petrock’s. Since then our work has expanded to include Children’s Centres; projects that help the unemployed back to work; schemes to promote community cohesion and a mentoring service to support independent living. We work with Police, Health and Social Services to identify and support some of the most vulnerable families in the city.

We provide:
Family Support and group activities for any family in central Exeter with children under 5.
Adult mentoring through our Transitions project. We train and match volunteers to help adults make a transition into independent living.
1:1 support to families with children of any age who are struggling to cope with parenting or emotional and practical issues.
Employability and life skills for excluded young people.

Expia Ltd is a charitable company limited by guarantee which aims to reduce re-offending by:

Providing employment and supporting the education and training of risk assessed prisoners at the jailhouse cafes and gardens.
Seeking links to next steps to external employment.
Marketing products and services produced by prison workshops.
Helping prisoners to make reparation for their crimes by volunteering and helping in the local community.

Extern works with children, adults, and communities affected by social exclusion through programmes delivered locally and directly to clients. Extern offers a comprehensive service for adult offenders and provides in-house independent life skills, personal developments for residents, monitoring and support.
Through 30 years of enterprise, innovation and experience we have developed services that help ensure that families and children stay together, people have somewhere to live, offending is reduced and that we can all live in a safe, fair and inclusive society. We work with people because the risk is worth taking and because we believe that everyone can make a positive contribution to society.
Extern delivers: Outreach and accommodation for people who homeless; Resettling, monitoring and supervision of people who have offended;Early intervention and prevention work with children, young people and their families Learning and skills for those who are homeless and who are excluded.

Fair Shares runs Time Banks in Gloucestershire which focus on two way volunteering which is explained more fully below. We began our work with the prison estate with HMP Gloucester and this successful partnership continued for six years, until the prison closed in 2013. We are currently working with HMP Leyhill, HMP Erlestoke and HMP Eastwood Park and are developing work with HMP Dartmoor. Time Banking is a great way of engaging with all members of our communities and benefits on a number of social, health and economic levels. Our participants in the prisons are either involved in Times2, our Maths peer mentoring scheme or volunteer for other organisations and use time banking to add extra value to the work that they already undertake.
Time Banking is a system of two-way volunteering; for every hour of your time you put in, you earn an hour of help in return or you can decide to give those hours to help those in the community who need extra support via the goodwill pot.

FASO is a voluntary organisation dedicated to providing support to anyone affected by a false sexual offence allegation or child protection issue.

FFOPS supports families and friends of prisoners through the Criminal Justice System and helps those who are struggling emotionally, physically and economically. FFOPS manages the Visitors' Centre at HMP Swansea.