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We provide informal and formal education, skills training and wellbeing activities in industrial sewing machining for marginalised groups.

We work with organisations supporting people in recovery, those who are insecurely housed or living in supported accommodation, and individuals with convictions. Through practical, creative learning opportunities, we help people build skills, confidence and wellbeing in a supportive environment.

We offer pastoral care and support to offenders/ex offenders. We provide peer group support and mentoring to ex offenders and people with mental health problems. This includes visiting prisons, mental health units. Supporting people in crises. We also try to encourage the quality of life of ex offenders by offering outings, walking, fishing, camping, and visiting places of interest as well as church services.

The Society is a diverse and innovative registered Housing Association working in Southampton, Portsmouth and across Hampshire, with experience in working in fields of homelessness, drug and alcohol misuse and mental health. We have a great track record of clients reducing or giving up substances.
Our current contracts are for the provision of treatment programs in Southampton, the HIOMS in Hampshire and a psycho-social and community rehab service in Portsmouth, We also provide specialist housing for offenders and a specialist team working with the CRC

We have great range of diversionary activities including partnership with local football clubs and a great volunteering scheme. We also have specialist housing for clients leaving prison with drugs issues, which has strong statistics in crime deduction.

We also have a range of hostels and other housing for people who are homeless or have substance misuse problems, including wet accommodation.

The SOFA Project is a reuse and recycling project which provides low-cost household items to low income groups, in doing so also providing environmental benefits. The placements that we give to offenders help us to achieve these aims.

A community chaplaincy resettlement project in Leicester supporting people in prison and helping ex-offenders resettle into the community after leaving prison.

We are part of Community Chaplaincy Association - https://www.communitychaplaincy.org.uk/

The project works with families affected through imprisonment by a trained Family Support worker specialising in supporting families. Families and children are the secondary victims of imprisonment and often the most disadvantaged group.

Specialist in BAME community Support.

Referral system – either self-referral or referred by partner organisations, services & families/friends.

We are the only organisation in Leicester to offer support to Muslim people in prison/leaving prison, their families and faith & spiritual needs.

Suited & Booted is a charity based near the City of London. Public agencies and charities refer homeless and vulnerable unemployed men to us, and we help them get into employment by providing them with a suit and other interview clothing and accessories donated by companies and professionals. We also offer our clients interview advice and help with their CV. Our clients come from a wide variety of backgrounds and situations, including prisoners awaiting release, men on probation and ex-offenders.

We are the leading provider of tax support within prisons. We are the only prison organisation that is a member of both the HMRC Individual Stakeholder Forum and the HMRC Voluntary Sector Tax Resolution Service (VSTRS). We specialise with prisoners that have tax issues, tax debt or simply need to file their self-assessment tax return.

The Traveller Movement (TM) is a national community development charity working to raise the capacity and social inclusion of the Gypsy and Traveller communities of Britain. TM has a two prong approach to its services and delivery. TM provide a range of capacity building and advocacy services directly to the Traveller and Gypsy communities, and equally engage in research, policy and voice.TM also act as a bridge builder, bringing the Gypsy and Traveller communities, service providers and policy makers together, thereby stimulating debate and promoting forward-looking strategies to promote increased race equality, civic engagement, inclusion, service provision and community cohesion.

We are a funder who provides grants to organisations working with young people who either already have a criminal conviction or who are at high risk of offending. Our grants aim to reduce re-offending rates amongst young people or reduce first offenses being committed.

The Upper Room has three linked projects and its mission statement is ‘improving lives’:

UR4Driving aims to reduce recidivism among 30 ex-offenders a year by teaching them to drive in return for 80 hours of voluntary work and. Since 2010, 166 people have obtained a licence, approximately half of them have found work but only 30% have re-offended after completing the course.

UR4Meals feeds 60-100 people, 5 days a week, as well as providing clothing and bedding, volunteer opportunities, support with health and housing and onward referrals.

UR4Jobs is a pioneering and multilingual employment support service for economic migrants. It aims to break their circuit of un-employability and homelessness by providing a personalised mix of administrative expertise, entry level skills training, bilingual counselling and access to jobs.

The Waterfall Trust aims to bring hope and restoration to women, in and around Hampshire, wanting to overcome addiction. We want to see women transformed, free from self-destructive patterns of behaviour, and living a fulfilling life with dignity and confidence.
We are a Christian inclusive charity welcoming women seeking support, from all backgrounds, abilities, faiths and ethnic groups. Our ethos is Christian, although women do not have to be a Christian to access our services.
Our programme involves weekly one to one support that runs alongside a regular programme of teaching and therapeutic activities. We work alongside other specialist providers and are able to provide a safe place for women where they are treated as individuals and their needs are addressed holistically.

THE WELCOME DIRECTORY - helping faith communities welcome people leaving prison.

Established as a charity in 2016, The Welcome Directory has over 250 Faith Communities registered with us, who state clearly that people leaving prison will find a welcome with them. Over the next two years our aim is to substantially increase that number, moving towards our simple yet powerful vision: to help faith communities become places where people who leave prison find acceptance. A place to belong that not only nurtures faith but also offers appropriate practical support.

People are at the very heart of this work; people who have found the benefits of being part of a faith community whether inside or outside the prison gates. If nothing else, we hope that engaging with The Welcome Directory will help faith communities to understand that in a deeper way; that those leaving prison have a name, a story as well as hopes and dreams for their lives beyond the prison gate.

The Well is a not-for-profit community interest company founded in 2012 by ex-offender and former drug addict, David Higham. With hubs in Barrow, Morecambe and Lancaster as well as sites in Kendal and Fleetwood, we help people recover from drug and alcohol addiction. We offer a range of high-quality services which are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Support is free to members and is provided by staff and volunteers with 'lived experience' of addiction. The team also specialises in providing support to people with mental health issues, offending behaviour, childhood trauma, learning difficulties, domestic abuse and homelessness.
Over the last four years, we’ve become a well-known and highly respected service provider in Cumbria and north Lancashire. Of those who've used our services, 69% have remained abstinent for six months or more.
We've found that our passionate and unique way of working has helped people into recovery where other services have failed.

The Wheels Project has been delivering a range of practical motor-vehicle-oriented programmes - all nationally accredited - which aim to engage, educate and prepare hard-to-reach young people living in Avon for employment or further education. We aim to equip our students with the knowledge and skills required to develop a history of achievement, legal driving and more social behaviours. In April 2012, the Wheels Project was awarded the PQASSO Quality Mark at level 2 by the Charities' Evaluation Service; this Quality Mark is valid for three years.

The Wise Group works in partnership with the Scottish Prison Service and Ministry of Justice. We are a leading social enterprise working to lift people out of poverty. As an enterprise we build bridges to opportunities for the most vulnerable in our society. Our team does this through relational mentoring services delivered throughout the UK.

Every day we support our customers into jobs, work to lift people out of fuel poverty, and help people coming out of prison to build a better future. Our work is varied, and underlying everything we do is a passion and commitment for social justice and a fairer society for all.

The Women's Centre Cornwall is run by women, for women. We have grown from our early roots as a Rape Crisis Centre into an innovative, award-winning feminist organisation which provides a wide range of services for women and girls in our communities. Our work with women living with the impact of sexual and domestic violence is our core specialism as we believe that there can be no real gender equality without a complete cessation of violence against women. In addition, we provide community-based activities across Cornwall and support women ex-offenders across Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, and in HMP Eastwood Park.

Skills for Justice is the Government-licensed Sector Skills Council for Justice and Community Safety, working with public, private and third-sector organisations to ensure that workforces (including volunteers) have the right skills now and for the future.

Women's Project: supporting those that are vulnerable or suffering from disadvantage/exploitation. We offer support for victims of domestic violence/sexual abuse and deliver The Freedom programme. We offer 1:1 mentoring, counselling and opportunities to reduce exclusion eg Craft Cafe, lunch clubs
Money/Debt & Energy Advice Service: Comprehensive energy, benefit, money & debt service. Applications to energy funds for grants to pay off gas/, electric & water arrears and for assistance payments for white goods & furniture. Gas & Electric pre-payment meter top-ups
Budgeting support, benefit optimisation
Welfare support: Foodbank & lunch clubs: We run a foodbank & a number of lunch clubs. Prison outreach and through the gates support at HMP Peterborough
Employment/Self-employment and Enterprise support: mentoring, skills development and work for the unemployed. We providing support to people wanting to go self-employed/considering starting a business

Our Space is a Theatre Royal Plymouth community programme that works with adults with multiple and complex needs. Members of the group come from all walks of life may have faced challenges involving homelessness, mental health issues, substance misuse, reoffending, or they may feel isolated for other reasons. The project has been running since 2009 and in 2018 became a social prescription. We have worked with over 700 people and 44 referral partners, including all 3 of our local prisons in Devon.
Our Space is a co-created programme, putting the people who engage in the programme at the heart and responding to their needs. We take a needs-based and person-centred approach and our offer is complimentary to the interventions and important support of services and organisations working within therapeutic, clinical, probation and recovery settings.

We provide effective behaviour change interventions for a variety of populations including the hardest to reach, disengaged and disruptive high risk violent offenders.
Our short intense behaviour-change course uses specially trained horses to provide motivation, feedback and structure. The course focuses on building fundamental emotional and mental skills, developing responsibilities and creating confidence as a learner. Evaluation has been extremely positive, including statistically significant drop in reoffending of 27% points, see http://www.thehorsecourse.org/evidence.
We work within prisons or beyond the gate, as well as with those at risk of offending. We have an HQ in Dorset (SW) and a growing number of trained facilitators spread around the UK. (Currently 10 fully trained and 17 partially trained).