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We provide quality vocational training through active learning. We develop and deliver accredited courses, issue-based workshops and performances and bespoke training programmes. We always develop our programmes in partnership with schools, parents and a wide range of services and agencies.
We are a Pearson centre and can deliver a range of qualification including Functional Skills and BTECs in WorkSkills and Performing Arts.

Actes is a training and skills provider and embraces a “client-led” approach to service delivery in response to the worklessness agenda. It delivers a portfolio of services characterised by identifying the needs of the individual, genuine engagement, and developing innovative solutions to widespread problems.

The Charity takes a uniquely comprehensive approach to fulfilling its mission, covering the spectrum from prevention to recovery; including providing residential and non-residential treatment and recovery programmes, supporting families and children through a variety of interventions, as well as training professionals to work to a higher standard than ever before, commissioning research and engaging in advocacy, particularly against the stigma that so unhelpfully attaches to its beneficiaries.

The Charity is privileged to enjoy the patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge which not only brings benefits to Action on Addiction but also to the cause of disarming addiction as a whole.

Action on Addiction is keen to retain its independence in order to best serve its beneficiaries. This allows creativity in its search for more effective ways to disarm addiction. For example, the Brink in Liverpool, the UK’s first charity-owned alcohol free bar/cafe and entertainment

Action Acton is a regeneration charity in West London, placing hard-to-reach disadvantaged individuals into employment, training or education. Action Acton specialises in working with offenders and ex-offenders in partnership with Criminal Justice agencies. We are an 'end to end' subcontractor for the Work Programme and have a long track record of successfully delivering payment by results contracts.
We have 7 local offices in Acton Vale, South Acton Estate, Acton and Hounslow.

We offer home-based addictions treatment - including detox services - throughout the whole of the United Kingdom. Our services are affordable, effective and confidential. Details are available on our website. We are based in the North East of England and work closely with Addictions North East, a provider of local recovery services.

Adelaide House Female Approved Premises is an award winning establishment, one of the eleven independently managed Approved Premises(IAP)in the country - operationally indistinguishable from the National Probation Service(NPS)estate. We are run by a small charity based in Liverpool - Liverpool Diocese Council for Social Aid and have been in existence and working with under privileged women since 1823. We are a national resource being one of only six female AP facilities in the country and we primarily provide enhanced supervision, structure and support for high risk of harm and/or complex need women in the Criminal Justices System either on release from prison as a condition of licence or as a residential requirement of a Community Order. We also have a small number of voluntary beds which women at risk are able to access including an Emergency Domestic Violence Victim bed. We deliver a wide range of services working in partnership with both statutory and community agencies.

Adfam works with and for families affected by drug and alcohol use, and is the leading national charity driving forward good practice in substance-related family work. Adfam offers publications, training and a website; it runs projects working with various isolated communities and has Family Support Workers delivering services in Peterborough prison.

Adferiad Recovery combines the skills and expertise of its founding charities to provide outstanding services for people in Wales with mental health problems, substance misuse problems, and those with co-occurring and complex needs.

Adullam is a specialist supported housing association and the services we provide include supported accommodation, floating support, landlord accreditation schemes, bond schemes, and peer mentoring. We work with the most vulnerable people in society today and we offer hope and dignity through quality housing and support to people in the following client groups: homeless, young people leaving care, mothers & babies, people fleeing domestic violence, refugees and asylum seekers, people living with HIV/Aids, ex-offenders or those at risk of offending and people recovering from drug & alcohol addiction.

ADVANCE Minerva delivers advocacy and support to women who have committed crime, or young women aged 16-24yrs at risk of committing crime. We work with London CRC to support women subject to Supervision, as well as offering support to women subject to short custodial sentences, including Through the Gates work. We offer one-to-one key-work to support women experiencing issues such as debt, family breakdown, social isolation, inadequate accommodation, poor physical and mental health, substance misuse and domestic or sexual violence. We run structured group-work programmes to increase confidence and self-esteem, plus diversionary activities to reduce social exclusion and surgeries with partner agencies to improve knowledge. Our aims are to offer a range of support to address the needs that lead women to offend, thereby reducing re-offending, and enabling women and children to live safer, violence free lives so that they can flourish and actively engage in society.

The Advice Services Alliance is the umbrella body for the voluntary sector social welfare advice services across the UK. We work in partnership with our members and other close stakeholders to ensure everyone in all our communities have access to the best possible advice when they need it.

We are a charity supporting community organisations that give free advice to the general public. Our members provide access to advice for over two million people a year. We provide a range of services including insurance, second-tier support, training and vocational qualifications.

We're here for all young people and adults to help them make better decisions that enable them to progress in learning and work and achieve their full potential.

Advocacy West Wales aims to relieve the affects of mental health problems, disadvantage and disengagement amongst those people affected who live in West Wales, and those areas of Wales commissioning advocacy in partnership with West Wales, through the provision of a comprehensive independent advocacy service.

/AFFECT is a small UK-wide charity, based in the South of England. It runs a free, confidential and non- judgmental service which includes advice, information, a newsletter, telephone support and a self-help group called Group Gathering. We will maintain your confidence, keep your information secure, and we generally work on a first name only basis. We work with other charities, primarily the Prison Reform Trust and Action for Prisoners Families, but never share personal information without prior permission. We are a friendly group and most of us are unpaid volunteers.

The African Cultural Association is a community learning organisation and registered charity that has been supporting unemployed vulnerable and disadvantaged people since its inception in 1995.

We seek to promote awareness of different cultures in multicultural Britain and bring different communities closer to each other. We offer both training and advice services, with the latter covering areas such as housing, immigration, health, employment, legal services, education, racial harassment and debt management.

Our training is centred on the skills needed for garment construction/manufacture (Fashion, Dressmaking, Pattern cutting & Craft for beginners, Intermediate and Advance, to improve their garment construction skills to enable them to set up their own business in Dressmaking and Fashion). Our training is currently delivered from our premises in Hendon, NW4 4JX, but our resources are portable, allowing us the ability to deliver from community venues anywhere in London.

Age UK Bristol works to improve the lives of older people in Bristol. We do this through providing top-quality services, collaborating with other organisations working with older people, influencing local decision-making, and promoting positive attitudes to ageing in the city. Age UK Bristol offers a range of services for older people in Bristol, including activities to stay active and connected with others through our LinkAge Community Services, and practical benefits advice through our Information and Advice Service.

Age UK Isle of Wight is an independent local charity. We've been working in the local community to help older people for 45 years. We have over 60 dedicated staff and hundreds of volunteers helping us to deliver services and activities for older people on the Isle of Wight.

Age UK Lancashire is the authoritative voice on ageing in Lancashire. We are ‘Passionate about later life: enabling choice, independence and control’ offering services and support to older people (aged 50+) in Lancashire, Blackpool & North Sefton which aim to ensure older people & their carers are fully informed of their rights and entitlements; support those with long term conditions to remain as independent as possible; connect older people to their communities to combat isolation and loneliness.
Our Age of Opportunity project supports people aged 50 and over who would like to work but who are unable to without additional support, especially those who are most at risk of social exclusion due to mental or physical health difficulties, homelessness or being full-time carers, for example.
Our other work includes Day Time Support, Dementia Support, Information Services & Support, Home Help, Veterans Services, Integrated Care, Hospital Aftercare, Footcare & support for community groups.

Age UK North Tyneside is the go to partner of choice as the expert on later life. We deliver weekly social, information, advice and wellbeing group sessions for residents aged over 50 in HMP Northumberland, HMP Frankland and HMP Holme House. We also have representation at Local Delivery Board health and wellbeing providers meetings in these prisons.
Age UK North Tyneside also work in an advisory capacity to HMP’s Durham, Low Newton and Kirklevington Grange.
We also currently supply Wellbeing/activity/distraction packs to all prisons across the country.
Our work is recognised as good practise within IMB national reports, we have had representation on advisory panels as experts in the field of older people and working within a prison setting.