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Inside Contact publish a magazine that is circulated around all prisons in UK. The magazine is designed to offer respite from time behind bars and will also be sent it to families of inmates. The magazinel features competitions, interviews and articles as well as being a platform for inmates and families to have their creativity published whether it be a painting or a written piece. We also offer mentor support to families where we can, when we can. We also run and offer jobs to ex offenders; teaching them digital skills and office skills for professional orientated jobs to empower them and either prepare them to work elsewhere or hopefully stay with us and grow in our team.

Inside Job Productions produces professional, high-quality films for training, promotion, case studies and internal communications. We work extensively within the Criminal Justice sector, experienced in communicating sensitive issues and managing security clearances. Clients include the National Probation Service, NOMS and many individual prisons and related organisations.

Established in 2010, Inside Justice is an
award winning charity that conducts
casework investigations on behalf of people
who claim they’ve been wrongly convicted.

We provide free access to experts and lawyers and identify and challenge systemic failings.

Inside Justice is a registered charity founded by Louise Shorter, former producer/director of BBC TV’s long-running miscarriage of justice investigative series Rough Justice. Our casework team is run on a lean overhead which harnesses the power of an army of expert volunteers.

We receive applications predominantly from prisoners or from their family and friends. We are also alerted to cases by lawyers who believe an innocent person may have been jailed but who can do no more due to Legal Aid funding cuts.

We rely totally on charitable support to investigate miscarriages of justice for prisoners and their families

Our Inside Out programme helps transform the lives of men & women who have been in prison, on probation, at risk of offending and/or coming out of addiction. Our passion is to support those with complex issues not to re-offend & to reintegrate them into their families & society. Our one-year Christian-based programme is built on three cornerstones – mentoring, building community & ongoing support. All are welcome to apply regardless of religious beliefs providing they wish to engage with us & want to turn their lives round. Mentoring is the most important part of our programme. We provide many opportunities for progression through life skills, education, qualifications, volunteer & employment placements & new interests and hobbies. We are encouraged that some of our participants have become drug-free, restored relationships with their families & are in employment. We work in partnership with a wide range of local organisations, churches, specialist agencies & the probation service.

Inside Time is a newspaper provided to every prison in the country. We also publish Inside Information, a comprehensive guide to prisons, legal fact sheets and support organisations for prisoners and their families.

Insider Access is a unique not for profit social enterprise with a passion to engage non-traditional learners into learning, employment and achieving their fullest potential in society.

Insider Access works closely with the Ministry for Justice, NOMS, Probation Trusts, Jobcentre Plus/DWP, is an accredited NCFE Centre and approved by the Skills Funding Agency.

Income generated by Insider Access (a not for profit social enterprise) supports:

* Innovative training in the community for unemployed, ex-offenders, hard to reach groups
* Innovative training in prisons
* Through the gate support
* Informal offender mentoring
* Work placement opportunities
* Reduce re-offending in society
* Make our communities safer
* Help all individuals to achieve their highest goals

We provide free NHS talking therapies for adults, to help with common issues like low mood, stress, and anxiety. We provide our services in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, Bassetlaw, Derby and Derbyshire, Peterborough, Kent, Medway, and via our partnerships in Wirral, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Teesside.

Inspira is a charity providing a range of career and personal development services across Lancashire, Cumbria and elsewhere in the North of England. We support people who often face multiple inter-related issues including unemployment, low skills, criminal justice, poverty, social isolation and poor health. Working in partnership with local voluntary and statutory services, employers and skills providers, we help people get on in work, life and society.

We work mainly with at-risk young people - Young Offenders, PRUs, SEMH. We are expanding into probation services & adult prisons. We offer motivational, interactive talks & workshops with a key focus on personal empowerment to make positive life choices, regardless of a person's past or environment. A key drive of the organisation is to drive down knife/violent crime - to prevent becoming a perpetrator in the first place or re offending.

Using direct personal experience of being a victim of a violent multiple stabbing in 2016, director Natalie Queiroz, uses this lived-experience to embed the victim perspective - during/after the attack, the long term consequences & ripple effect of the crime. Her hard-hitting talk also focuses on choices & empowerment to come back from even the darkest, hardest times in life to rebuild a strong & better future. Truly anything is possible!

Natalie also advocates the power of Restorative Justice - having direct experience of facing her perpetrator in prison.

Inspire North was formed in October 2018 and is the parent company of two long-standing charities in Yorkshire and the North East - Foundation and Community Links. Together, we have over 30 years of experience supporting the most marginalised people in our communities. Foundation's original service offering was accommodation for ex-offenders. Today, our organisation has grown to encompass support for adults, young people and families through a diverse range of services that promote social inclusion: homelessness prevention; domestic abuse (victims and perpetrators); care leavers; multiple and complex needs. We continue to specialise in accommodation and support for ex-offenders; we have relationships with over 100 private sector landlords, are a registered social landlord, and have an established Social Lettings Agency - Foundation Living. Community Links are an award-winning mental health charity pioneering a wide range of life-changing health and wellbeing services across the North.

Inspire Women is a tapestry of the interwoven lives and experiences of a group of Oldham women, their stories contributing to the writing of a new story, an inspiring story of women helping women, of women hoping for and enabling change, of women re-defining their stories, their previously unheard wisdom shaping a dynamic, co-created organisation that encompasses and celebrates Heart Centred Leadership.
Inspire Women believes that the current power systems based on control doesn't work and calls for a different concept of power based on trust that is more balanced, more inclusive. Our website invites you into our community, to connect and share in our fabulous journey stories, our brightest moments and our transformations.

We deliver employability contracts for people who are unemployed, econmically inactive or looking to upskill. We deliver impartial IAG to support people into education, training or employment. All our work is tailored to meet the individuals needs and we complete a 20 factor holistic assessment with each person. Our service provides Careers Advice; CV building; access to the latest local vacancies, intoerview skills, skills assessments,IAG re training and fudning and learning, work experience and volunteering opportunities, in work support to help people sustian their employment. We deliver our service via 1:1 interviews or group workshops. We action plan and facillitate goal setting with our customers to enable them to achieve their objectives. We work in partnership with employers and specialist organisations to enable customers to access services to address their barriers.

Inspirit Training & Development Ltd is an ex-service user led organisation that primarily works to support alcohol and drug users and their families through educational opportunities, personal development and consultation for service user involvement.

Inspirit deliver a diploma in health & social care, (specialising working with multiple disadvantage), which trains many-ex service users to develop the skills to work in the field. Inspirit run "Freespace", a creative and personal development group for ex-service users. They also coordinate service user involvement in the London Borough of Islington, (substance misuse services), and are responsible for developing a pioneering co-production process for NHS England, London Region, in healthcare in the London Prison Estate and other criminal justice settings.

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

Investing in Children (IiC) is an organisation concerned with the human rights of children. We were created in 1995 in County Durham, in the North East of England, by managers in the local authority and the National Health Service.

In 2004, the Investing in Children Development Agency was created, to allow other organisations outside of County Durham, to use the IiC approach, and in 2013, IiC became an independent Community of Interest Company. IiC now has partnerships with public service agencies and universities across the UK and in Europe.

For 21 years, we have been working alongside children and young people, and adults who provide services to them, to create a range of effective ways in which they can exercise their right to have a say, often resulting in improvements in the services themselves.

We provide support to people in prison and their children, families and significant others. We operate visitor centres, provide family support and through the gate mentoring.

We also deliver awareness raising training to schools with the aim of reducing the stigma around children with parents in prison. Our School Zone project aims to reduce the barriers to involvement in the education of the children.

We help individuals, organisations, agencies and employers in the statutory, private and voluntary sectors, to understand the extent and nature of discrimination and inequality experienced by individuals and groups in fields such as the criminal justice system, housing, employment, education, health and social care. The aim is to encourage them to implement policies and practices which will eliminate discrimination and promote equality of opportunity, and good relations, between all persons.

ICC exists to identify and respond to the needs of both the Irish and Irish Traveller communities, through offering and developing professional and culturally-sensitive services. We currently offer support around a range of issues including accommodation, homelessness, offending, physical and mental health, low income, drug and alcohol use, social and cultural isolation, training and employment. Our work focuses on linking our Service Users into opportunities, entitlements and services to improve quality of life. We do this both through drop-in information and advice services and through outreach workers in the community visiting people in their own homes, hospitals and prisons, locally and regionally. We work at a strategic level to inform the development and delivery of culturally appropriate services locally, regionally and nationally.

We are an independent charity, affiliated with the national Citizens Advice Bureau, providing free, confidential, impartial and independent advice. Our prison outreach unit works in HMP Isle of Wight (Albany, Camp Hill and Parkhurst) providing one-to-one advice sessions and financial capability training courses.

Islington People’s Theatre is an Applied Theatre for Social Change Community Interest Company (CIC), based in Islington, North London. We work with community and marginalised groups using applied theatre and drama processes, such as improvisation and devising, to co-create socially engaged work for personal, social and political change. We believe these processes can offer a platform for those voices and communities who are not being heard, a way to re-connect with the self and others, reduce isolation, develop creativity and provide a space to explore and create alternatives.

Applied Theatre is ‘an applied theatre because the art form becomes a transformative agent that places the audience or participants in direct and immediate situations where they can witness, confront and deconstruct aspects of their own and others’ actions‘. (Taylor, 2003: xx).

Theatre for Social Change is ‘an activist form of dramaturgy which aims to influence and alter the actual world, not just reflect it’ (Kuppers 2007: 8). It mainly takes place in non-conventional theatre spaces such as community centres, site-specific venues, treatment centres, prisons and care homes, with participants who have previously no experience of drama or theatre work.