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A not-for-profit organisation centred around the bicycle, covering maintenance training, cycle training, art projects and recycling as well as other community activities based around the bike.

We run community service sessions with young people coming through the criminal justice system. We train them in fine art and design skills. They have supported our work with public realm installations. We have also taken prisoners leaving prisons, preparing them for life outside.
We have a collection of art work by offenders that is suitable for touring.
Our Director is interested in the planned closure of prisons, leading to the Abolition of Prisons.

Lucy Faithfull Foundation is a UK wide charity that exists to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation. We're bold, we're pioneering, we're growing and we want your help.

We're here for everyone who needs us. We protect children by working with people who pose a risk and diverting them from causing harm. We support individuals and families who have been affected by abuse. And we help professionals who work with families to create safer environments for children.

We run the confidential Stop It Now helpline and Shore, a website for teenagers.

We engage with policy and decision makers to advocate for a public health approach to child sexual abuse.

We bring understanding and knowledge of what keeps children safe to the widest possible audience.

Our values help guide our actions and help ensure we achieve our purpose: we act with integrity, we are collaborative, we are innovative, we are ambitious and we have hope.

We work with offenders and ex-offenders through mentoring, which we deliver in prisons and secure units, schools, and youth offending teams. We deliver on restorative justice, and programmes for gun and knife crime from a victim's point of view.

Magic Lantern is an educational charity that gives interactive art history talks in a variety of learning establishments. We show that anyone can engage with, understand and enjoy famous works of art and help provide the stories behind the images. We also use art to help develop a wide range of life skills including communication, observation and confidence.

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.

Make Amends is Shekinah's Restorative Justice Service. Restorative justice brings together people harmed by crime or conflict with those responsible for the harm, to find a positive way forward. Restorative justice gives victims the chance to tell offenders the real impact of their crime, get answers to their questions and get an apology. Restorative justice holds offenders to account for what they have done. It helps them understand the real impact, take responsibility and make amends.

Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) is a coalition of Clinks, Homeless Link and Mind formed to improve policy and services for people facing multiple needs. Together the charities represent over 1,300 frontline organisations and have an interest in the criminal justice, substance misuse, homelessness and mental health sectors.

MiO is a charity based in Brighton and Hove set up to enable people, who are at risk of committing crime without support, to begin to change their current situation through regular engagement in creative making activities.
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Our organisation sits between being a art & design fabricator and a support service for those in need of a more constructive use of their time. Through involving our participants in the process of designing and making a variety of artistic and innovative products we equip them with the skills, motivation and confidence they need to build and maintain more positive and stable futures for themselves.

As an organisation we are aware that the problems that people leaving prison face are multifaceted, unique, and difficult to overcome. For this reason, we see engaging with us as a starting point and offer the support, mentoring and signposting that individuals need to change their circumstances and begin to take control of their own lives.

We are a homeless prevention and housing advice service in our local community of Kendal. We run a drop in community where all are welcome and offer support vulnerable adults with many different issues including homelessness, addiction, mental health or just in need of housing or benefits advice.
We hold drop-in lunches where people can get food, showers, clothes and other basic needs. We also run weekly skills days with training and education and facilitate groups such as AA and NA.
We keep the profile of homelessness and housing issues raised in our local community and advocate for our vulnerable clients with landlords and statutory services.
Many of our clients have experience in the criminal justice system, we support them with prison visits, coordinating transitions and advocating on their behalf to make sure their needs are met.

Upcycle believe everyone deserves a chance at a better future. We work to prevent people from being pulled into crime and help those already in the system find paths out. We run bike maintenance programmes for at-risk and marginalised youth in Bradford and in prisons and young offender institutions across the UK. Our trainees learn skills, gain valuable experience, and build the resilience and self-belief needed to succeed. Most refurbished bikes, often saved from landfills, are donated to those in need, both locally and globally. The remainder are sold in our Community Bike Shop in Shipley, providing affordable and good quality bikes to the local community and funding our work.

Mayday Trust is a forward thinking organisation working with people going through some of the toughest life transitions, including people experiencing homelessness, leaving care, coming off drugs or alcohol, coming out of prison or psychiatric hospital.

Mayday supports people to take control of their own lives, to live independently and to use their talents to their full potential. We focus on giving every individual as much power, control and responsibility as possible.

Everyone experiences challenging times in their life. Mayday offers a unique and proven way of helping you through. Our approach is to help you identify your goals and decide where you want to be in your life. We will encourage you to discover your strengths and talents, experience new challenges and achieve what you never thought you could. We will assist you to develop the personal tools you need to move forward and fulfil your ambitions.

We are an advocacy speaking up alongside people affected by mental ill-health; we promote solidarity, equality and social justice.

M.E.M Academy CIC employs sports as a valuable tool to promote inclusivity and equal access to physical activities, skills development, and career mentorship for at-risk and vulnerable children and young individuals aged 11 to 21. The primary aim of this initiative is to enhance their physical and mental well-being while concurrently reducing instances of anti-social behaviour and the risk of involvement in the criminal justice system. Furthermore, our services extend to aiding individuals identified as NEETs in acquiring accredited courses, securing work placements, and accessing employment opportunities.

Additionally, we offer tailored workshops within correctional facilities to support offenders aged 16 to 24 who are nearing their release and aspire to become fitness coaches after their release. Our support doesn't conclude at the prison walls; we continue to provide assistance to these individuals upon their release, guiding them in accessing accredited courses and employment.

We are a specialist mentoring agency, helping young people avoid involvement in crime and to settle into the community. We work with NEET (not in employment, education and training) young people, ex-offenders and those vulnerable to criminality in the South London area.

Whether you are an agency helping young people or a young person yourself. Feel free to contact us to discuss any of our services or resources.

Mental Health Concern are based in the North East of England and provide a variety of specialist mental health services. These include dementia care, rehabilitation and recovery, supported housing, and community services.

The Mental Health Foundation, incorporating the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (FPLD), is the leading UK charity working in the field of mental health and learning disability. We combine policy, research, campaigning and service development to promote good mental health and to improve services for anyone affected by mental health problems or with a learning disability.

Mentoring Plus is a local charity which supports young people facing challenges by connecting them with their community through award winning mentoring schemes, youth clubs, projects and inspiring activities programmes.

We employ professional case workers to listen to young people and understand what they want and need.
We link each mentee with a volunteer mentor from their own community who we think they’ll get along with, and we support that relationship all the way.

We train those volunteer mentors, giving them access to the knowledge, techniques and support they’ll need to help a young person.
We provide expert supervision to mentors, just like professional counsellors receive.

We provide a one-year mentoring programme, using volunteer mentors, targeted at young people aged between 12 and 17 who are at risk of offending. We run a programme of holiday activities and evening interest groups.

The project provides mentoring support to Merseyside based offenders pre and post release from prisons across Merseyside and the North West to enable offenders to effectively resettle back into the community. By supporting their criminogenic needs the project is focused on reducing or ceasing their offending behaviour. The project provides a comprehensive service to offenders from mentoring appointments in HMP Liverpool, through the gate support on the day of release, to appointments in the community with volunteer mentors and the opportunity to become a mentor themselves. The Project also recruits and trains Peer Mentors in HMP Liverpool to support offender’s needs in custody and promote engagement.

Merton & Lambeth Citizens Advice Bureaux (MLCAB) provide information, advice and casework across the London Boroughs of Lambeth and Merton. It does so from its three main sites in Morden, Mitcham and Streatham Hill, at 15-20 outreach locations, via e-mail and by telephone.

MLCAB also seeks to exert a responsible influence on the development and application of policies and working practices. It dose so by collating and submitting evidence of its customers' experience.

MLCAB is a volunteer based organisation with volunteers being supported by a paid staff and management structure. MLCAB seeks to work with those who wish to do so to develop career paths and follow routes into work.

More detailed information is available on MLCAB's website www.mlcab.org.uk