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Sole Survivor is a trauma-informed Community Interest Company providing PTSD recovery support, neurodiversity coaching and peer-led rehabilitation pathways for people moving through trauma, adversity, and the criminal justice system.

We specialise in working with high-risk, hard-to-engage individuals, including those affected by ADHD, PTSD, addiction, homelessness, ACEs, and justice involvement, offering a safe space for change where traditional services often struggle to maintain engagement.

Since 2018, Sole Survivor has facilitated over 1,000 hours of community-based trauma support, delivering peer groups, 1:1 support, and interventions grounded in lived experience, safeguarding awareness and professional training.

We are Enhanced MoJ security vetted and Enhanced DBS cleared, supporting individuals pre-release and post-release through stabilisation, trauma reduction (Rewind + IEMT), and coaching for behavioural change and post-traumatic growth.

Our model reduces emotional volatility, increases resilience, and improves stability, with a focus on empowerment rather than dependency.

We are building a neurodiversity-aware pathway, specialising in ADHD + PTSD comorbidity, supporting clients to move from crisis and survival into regulation, purpose and community reintegration.

Our work is outcomes-focused, ethical, boundary-held, and rooted in social impact — ensuring people don’t just survive trauma, but start to live instead of exist.

Solo Housing has been working with single people to find housing solutions since 1985.
We help a range of people, from those who simply need a roof over their head, to those who need regular help to overcome problems that they may be experiencing. At Solo we believe in people and our intention is to provide opportunities for those who pass through our door to improve their lives.

We are funded by a number of different agencies, as well as by voluntary donation, to provide support, advice, information and practical help to achieve this.

The South Derbyshire Citizens Advice Bureau aims to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of South Derbyshire, by encouraging empowerment, the promotion and preservation of health and the relief of poverty, sickness and distress. We are able to achieve this by providing free, independent, confidential, and impartial advice to everyone living in South Derbyshire. We provide advice around a wide range of topics, which include specialist debt, financial literacy, welfare benefits and employment advice as well as general advice on a number of topic areas.

We are a mental health charity. One of our projects is supported accommodation for ex-offenders with mental health problems coming out of detention.
Other projects are post-traumatic stress disorder counselling, improving access to mental health for ethnic minority communities, counselling for eating disorders, Therapy for You, and community supported accommodation, general counselling and mental health training.

South West Community Chaplaincy is a mentoring organisation providing through the gate support to people seeking to make a new start after leaving prison. We support people returning to Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset.

We’re a community development organisation, which brings people together to build strong communities. Since 1988, we’ve been working with people of all ages to help them live happy, healthy lives.

Spark Inside runs coaching programmes in prisons across London and the South East, to encourage rehabilitation and reduce reoffending. We offer two coaching programmes;
The Conversation is our systems coaching programme that brings together large groups of prison staff and prisoners in a facilitated group coaching process to enhance their relationships, improve empathy, and support sustained, positive cultural change on prison wings.
Hero’s Journey is our structured life coaching programme for young people aged 15-25, in prison and through-the-gates, building their motivation to change, decreasing in-prison violence and creating a pro-social identity away from crime to reduce reoffending.
Our expert coaches are qualified and trained professionals.

Spark2Life is determined to make sure that all children and young people have a safe and nurturing life. We work in schools and the community to prevent criminal activity, tackle exclusion, reduce racial disproportionality and increase emotional resilience of young people (11+yrs) affected by violence.

Our services in the community and education are delivered in London, Kent and Buckinghamshire where we provide therapeutic mentoring, casework, counselling and awareness programmes to prevent young people from gang violence, offending and criminal exploitation.
We provide family support and training to professionals through Trauma Informed courses and AQA Accredited Wholistic Mentoring.

The SPCK Diffusion programme provides free adult literacy books to staff and volunteers who can run reading groups in prisons and with ex-offenders. Diffusion works to transform the lives of those in the criminal justice system by providing free, easy-to-read books that improve reading confidence, inspire self-reflection, emphasise the importance of making good choices and encourage empathy and positive relationships. Improving readers' literacy skills increases their chances of finding employment on release and plays a part in reducing reoffending. The programme is funded by donations from charitable trusts/individual supporters. The books are usually used in education classes or reading groups but also in libraries and for 1-1 reading. During COVID-19 we were delighted to meet a six fold increase in requests, rapidly providing over 10,000 books as prison staff sought positive activities for those in their care during lockdown.

Spectra works to improve the choices, health and well-being of people. often from diverse and marginalised communities.

Delivering empowering positive, informed choices about health, including sexual health, emotional resilience and wellbeing, and working with to combat isolation and risk.

We provide supportive, knowledgeable, non-judgemental services which are all peer led, meaning they are delivered by people from the communities we work with themselves.

We are proactive in identifying the needs of all our clients and supporting them.

We aim for knowledgeable, aware and empowered individuals and communities who have clear, accurate, credible and non-judgemental wellbeing and health information and quality services that are relevant and accessible.

We work with offenders/prisoners providing pro-social education, learning and support. Our education programme is person centred and prepares and equips those in custody for work and a crime free lifestyle upon release thus preventing re-offending

160,000 children each year have a parent in prison. At Spurgeons, our aim is to improve the lives of those children and their families who are affected by a parent being in prison. Our prisoner and family support services across England allow children to visit their loved ones in a friendly environment and our mentoring and support programmes give young people the change to reduce negative behaviours and build a better future.
We work in the heart of communities, delivering a range of high quality, flexible services for those affected by imprisonment and offending. These include; running Prison Visitors’ Centres; mentoring - pre and post release; family days; parenting Programmes in prisons; Family Support Programmes for offenders and their families; through the gate support and family re-integration; community support services for families of offenders; and training for partner organisations.

We are a national caseworking charity for serving and ex-service men and women and their families in times of need. We require only one day's paid service in the British Armed Forces to be eligible for our help. We try to offer emotional, practical and financial support. We have a network of trained volunteer case workers throughout the UK.

St Andrew's is the UK's largest not-for-profit mental healthcare charity. We offer specialist services for adult male/female, adolescents and older people across Mental Healthcare, Learning Disability, Autistic spectrum, Acquired Brain Injury, Progressive and Neurodegenerative Conditions. We offer an extensive variety of care pathways, through medium to low secure, predischarge and community services. Our National Brain Injury Centre is recognised as the National Centre of Excellence. St Andrew’s has a consultancy service which provides: consultant psychiatry services to secure training centers, Court and Medico Legal reports. Service Users at St Andrew’s become involved in developing their own recovery focused, person centered care plan, which includes recognition and inclusion of cultural beliefs, families as well as catering for all disabilities.

St Giles Trust aims to help break the cycle of prison, crime and disadvantage and create safer communities by supporting people to change their lives. Our services put reformed ex-offenders at the heart of the solution, training them to use their skills and first-hand experience to help others through peer-led support.
We work in custody, through the gate and into the community, finding solutions to support offenders break the cycle and move towards social inclusion and mainstream provision. Services are delivered in prisons and CRCs throughout the country, with current programmes running in Wales, Yorkshire, the Midlands, Norfolk, Suffolk, London and the South East. We work with a wide demographic and have specific experience with particular groups including female offenders, BAME, young people and foreign national prisoners.
We provide flexible, tailor-made services which are driven by the needs presented by the people we are trying to help. Typically, this involves: helping people

To provide the advice people need for the problems they face.
And equally:
To improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives.

The advice that we provide is free, confidential, impartial and independent.

St Helens District Citizens Advice Bureau provides specialist benefits, debt, employment and housing advice. In addition, it provides advice on a range of other issues including consumer, health, education, relationships and many others. We have outreaches in the community and provide advice sessions at the Scott Clinic in Merseyside.

St Johns is an independently managed male Approved Premises and Outreach project. We work with men who are in the main presenting as high and medium risk of harm , we accommodate men who are involved in the Criminal Justice System, and also operate a move on Outreach Service . We provide a safe , stable and structured environment and deliver a variety of activities and programmes . We have developed a number of specialist partnerships and work with multiple agencies to offer an individualistic service user led approach in order to work towards reducing re-offending.

At the Frontline Network, we support staff across the UK who work on the frontline with people experiencing homelessness. The Network is open to staff in the public, statutory or voluntary sectors in a wide range of roles such as outreach, housing, social work and probation. We offer funding, community and resources, including:
· Providing funds for frontline workers to access training;
· Hosting national and local events to share best practice;
· Sharing news and opportunities via our website and digital communications;
· Conducting research with frontline workers to learn from their insights; and
· Amplifying the voices of frontline workers to influence policy and practice around homelessness.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at frontline@stmartinscharity.org.uk

St Mungo’s supports over 10,000 homeless and vulnerable people in London and the South each year. Our work focuses on three main areas: • Providing emergency services e.g. emergency shelters, hostels and outreach teams. • Supporting homeless people in their recovery – this includes drug and alcohol treatment, providing access to physical and mental healthcare and developing independent living skills. • Preventing homelessness – our support teams work with a range of vulnerable people e.g. former rough sleepers and ex-offenders. We also offer high support housing to nearly 400 people at risk of sleeping rough. In 2011/12, our Offender Management Services saved over 1,000 tenancies.

St Petrock’s has been working for over 18 years to support people who are homeless or vulnerably housed to improve their circumstances and lead fulfilling lives.

We aim to:
• Improve access to housing and help clients to successfully maintain a tenancy
• Improve health, well being and life expectancy
• Enable access to training, volunteering and employment opportunities.

St Petrock’s works to achieve these objectives through a number of emergency, support and prevention programmes including, advice, housing and support, outreach, resettlement, work and volunteering projects, prison housing advice, “through the gate” resettlement service, and a hub providing health and substance misuse services, basic survival services and emergency winter accommodation.

Many of the people we work with have become socially excluded and many have complex and overlapping needs such as mental health, addictions, offending or a learning or physical disability.