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AVision for Empowerment CIC is a social enterprise that believes everyone has the ability to achieve success regardless of their past history. Our tailored inspirational workshops and holistic accredited programmes motivate and inspire people to achieve employment, self-employment or to further their education and careers through soft and hard outcomes. We have over nine years’ We have delivered in the community, employment agencies and the criminal justice system within 21 prisons across the UK including the West Midlands, North East, South East, East Midlands and the Yorkshire and Humber region in partnership with Ixion Holdings, APM. Staffordshire West Midlands Community Rehabilitation Company, Pertemps People Development Group, Catch22, Milton Keynes College, and National Career Service leading over 4000 participants along the road to desistance and to achieve long term sustainable career success.

We are a Community Interest Company bringing business and IT skills to those who need it most. Our professional training is provided alongside dedicated learner support services to provide employment opportunities within local communities.

Our support services include online coaching, dedicated mentors, career advice and guidance and signpost services to other local community organisations specialising in a variety of areas. By partnering with local businesses we are able to provide work experience, work placements, volunteering opportunities and internships for all learners that complete a course with us.

BAC-IN is a culturally specific, Peer Led, award winning, 'grass roots' drug and alcohol recovery service. In 2003 BAC-IN developed a unique and successful 'transformative recovery' programme designed to help the Black and Minority Ethnic communities with recovery focused and offender rehabilitation support.

BAC-IN uses an integrated and culturally competent approach, which offers a diverse range of services designed to maximise transformative recovery, supporting individuals to take personal responsibility so that they may achieve freedom from addiction and become productive individuals within their communities.

Whilst BAC-IN is a culturally specific service, it is not culturally exclusive. We work in partnership across all sections of society, sharing good practice, consortia work and consultancy.

Back on Track is a Manchester charity that enables disadvantaged adults to make lasting, positive changes in their lives. We work with people who are going through a process of recovery or rehabilitation, having been through problems with offending, alcohol or drugs, homelessness or mental health.

We have a busy and welcoming learning centre in central Manchester where we offer a range of support and activities including training courses, one to one guidance and work experience. Our courses have a strong focus on health and wellbeing and arts and cultural activities as well as covering functional skills.

Our progression team work closely with a number of national and local employers to provide support with employability. We also have a very successful catering social enterprise which allows us to offer work placements and employment.

With our project Inside and Out we run a lifeskills course in HMP Manchester followed by through the gate support on release.

Back On Track Housing is a community support organisation providing long-term, sustainable private accommodation and support for vulnerable people, we have been working with vulnerable homeless individuals for the last 10 months. These individuals have been referred by organisations such as the local authorities, charities organisations and NHS. Back on Track desire to reach out and develop this further by housing vulnerable homeless individuals who are not eligible under the housing act for referral i.e. rough sleepers, ex offenders, ex drugs and alcohol users and many young vulnerable adults.

We provide facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupations in the interests of social welfare, for those who by reason of their crimes, youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstance, have need of such facilities. Back On Track working in partnership with music industry to help some of our client who is inclined/has a natural talent for music to produce and working in partnership with local business enterprises for as many that has difficulty in securing jobs for reason of their criminal records.

We have an extensive database of Private Sector Landlords across London that support us in providing self contained and shared accommodation, our landlord’s waiver all deposits, agreed to accept one month’s rent in advance and accept client on housing benefit. All rents are within LHA across London.

All properties are inspected by a member of our team to ensure all safety certificates are in place prior to client’s viewings and we are accredited by London landlord Accreditation Scheme. We can house in the same day of referral and provide on- going service for our clients 24/7.

Back On Track are now working in partnership with food bank in London ie. NCC edmonton food bank where we arrange collection for some of our clients to settle into a new accommodation or community.

We provide grants to serving prisoners, ex-offenders and their families living within the County of Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes. Requests for assistance come through the Probation Service, the BACO Support Service in prisons, and other charitable organisations. We work in co-operation with both the Prison Service and Probation, but independently of both. We hold seminars to raise our profile and bring issues of concern and interest in the field of criminal justice to a wider audience.

Barca-Leeds is a multi-purpose charity in Bramley, Leeds, West Yorkshire. We provide specialist services to help people overcome a broad range of issues. Barca-Leeds supports all members of the local community, from children and young people to adults and families.

Barca-Leeds is a neighborhood focused, voluntary sector, community development organisation. It works in a multi-purpose way, helping all the children, young people and adults for whom it provides health and education services to reach their full potential. in doing so, it aims to help them make a positive contribution to the social and economic well being of their community.

We carry out research and evaluation work in the areas of crime and disorder, prisons, anti-social behaviour and reducing reoffending. This work includes evaluations both formative and summative; research for feasibility purposes; investigations to identify the extent of, and reasons behind, crime and disorder; and evaluating the effectiveness of initiatives.

Barefoot Research and Evaluation also coordinates and administers the North East Offender Network (Neon) on behalf of Voluntary Organisations Network North East (VONNE).

Barnabus are a Christian Homeless Charity in Manchester. We offer a lifeline to around 350 vulnerable and homeless people every week, many of whom have severe addictions or mental health issues. We have our own drop-in, medical suite and offer a range of classes help with an allotment and Street Soccer Project. We visit the Red Light District and Outreach workers support prisoners due for release.

Barnardo’s is one of the UK’s leading children’s charities. Our overarching commitment remains to change the lives of vulnerable children and young people within our broader work with families and communities, giving them hope and helping them to realise their full potential. Our pledge is that we believe in children and young people and our vision is that the lives of all children and young people should be free from poverty, abuse and discrimination. We believe in the abused, the vulnerable, the forgotten and the neglected. We will support them, stand up for them and bring out the best in each and every child. Our purpose is to help the most vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil their potential.
We do this directly through our services, and through influencing the system around them. We support children, young people and families without judgement whilst standing up for them and lobbying Governments, commissioners and policy makers to put their needs first. We work tirelessly to support children and young people in:
~ thriving in stronger families through services; utilising an early intervention approach, based on the whole family and accounting for their emotional health and well-being
~ providing safer childhoods; through targeted and tailored support to prevent abuse and child sexual exploitation and supporting looked after children, keeping them safe from harm
- building positive futures; with a focus on care leavers, supporting them with managing what can be a difficult transition to adulthood
Barnardo’s offers a range of services nationally and works directly with over 295,000 children, young people and their families every year. We deliver over 1,000 services in local communities across the UK; our strength is in the diversity of the services we provide, each of which is locally based and addresses local need, focusing on:
Family Support
Emotional Health and Wellbeing
Parenting
Domestic Abuse
Leaving Care
Young Carers
Disability Services
Team Around the Family
Support for children and partners affected by parental imprisonment
Family work with offenders in prisons
Substance Misuse Services
Child Sexual Exploitation
Supervised Contact Services
Employment, Training & Skills
Family Placement
All of our services address child and family disadvantage, striving to demonstrate greater effectiveness and providing the very best value for money, both to commissioners and to our supporters. This means we are uniquely placed to transfer best practice across elements of delivery, and apply innovation from different areas of our work to new settings, alongside promoting our robust research practices for engagement and influencing policy at government level.

Barnardo’s runs over 1,000 services for children and families in local communities across the UK. Our work includes reaching and helping children who have been sexually exploited, young people leaving the care system, children with a parent in prison and families struggling to cope. We find loving adoptive homes and foster placements for children in care.

Barnardo's delivers family engagement services and visit centres in Dorset and West Midlands, including evidence based parenting programmes, one-to-one case work, and innovative engagement programmes to support families of prisoners and relationships with significant others. We have specialist knowledge working with vulnerable groups including working with families of veterans who are in prison and extensive experience working with care leavers.

Our award-winning approach, BBM, helps people develop their soft skills (e.g. communication, self-motivation, time-management, team-working), improving employability and wellbeing. BBM produces quantitative evidence of the changes that are made.
We support organisations through our consultancy, using BBM Diagnostic to identify and remove barriers in systems and processes that stop organisations making the most of their people and doing their best work.

Barton Hill Settlement enables our community to actively participate in positive, life-affirming activities. We offer a unique space for residents of Barton Hill and the surrounding area to celebrate, learn, create, develop, relax, socialise and play. From young people to the more mature; from new residents of our locality to those who have lived here all of their lives are all welcome.

Basis Yorkshire supports indoor and street sexworkers in Leeds with information and access to services including sexual health, housing, physical and mental health support, benefits, support regarding sexual and other forms of violence and advocacy on behalf of sexworkers. We also deliver a specialist one to one service for young people experiencing sexual exploitation and abuse in Leeds, Bradford and Hull. We also offer training nationally in all our areas of expertise and related areas and campaign for the rights of our service users.

An independent community based organisation formed on behalf of the residents of Batchley and surrounding area, a district of Redditch, Worcestershire. The charity works not only in Batchley but also in other districts of Redditch working on behalf of the residents and provides a range of services, activities and events in local neighbourhoods.

Bath Area Play Project are a small voluntary organisation that were established in 1979 to support the child’s right to play and have since its inception facilitated a range of play opportunities for children of all ages and abilities. None of these are possible without the commitment and enthusiasm of the staff, trustee and volunteer teams. We have a very high retention rate for both staff and trustees!

Many of the services that we provide today are very similar to how we started with the child and young person at the centre of everything that we do. Not only that but we have a playful creative approach to every aspect of our work and the flexibility to be able to adapt and respond to changing needs.

Be Strong is a project and registered charity with a strong Christian ethos, borne out of a passionate belief that a structured programme of supervised physical training and mentoring support can offer drug addicts and habitual offenders the opportunity to take active control of their lifestyle to improve their lives and add value to society.

Be Strong builds on positive aspects of health and well being to remedy project participant’s psychological and interpersonal issues via personal development workshops delivered simultaneously with physical training.

BearFace Theatre CIC (BFT) is an emerging community interest company using Applied Theatre methods to affect positive social change for people who are often labelled as on the margins of society. BFT uses applied theatre methods to invite positive social change to benefit individuals affected by the criminal justice system, their families and the wider community. Aiming to bring about an open sense of play, collaboration, creativity and memorable experience, inviting high quality reflective and devised theatre to be made and performed to a wide range of audiences, thus creating a wider social impact. BFT explore the use of theatre as a tool for effective conflict resolution and transformation. As a CIC BFT strive to empower the communities they work with and for by working co-operatively and collaboratively to co create work together. Using creative arts to lift marginalised and unheard voices, sharing message through inclusive high-quality performance & applied theatre programmes.

Beating Time runs weekly, year-round choirs in prisons. Our ultimate purpose is to reduce reoffending. Singing and performing together improves mental health, creates positive social inclusion and communities and supports our users to make the most of other opportunities available to them in prison. Our groups are assets for their prison communities, performing at regular concerts, award ceremonies, memorial services and also as part of our musical family day programme. Recordings are shared through our website.
We also use our choirs as a platform for our creative, business start-up programme (UpStart) and our peer-led, job recruitment surgeries (Inside Job). We are recipients of a Clinks Covid-19 Response Grant for our Inside Job Programme.
Our work is supported through-the-gate and on release by our West Midlands Manager.

Bedford Womens Centre is based in the Raleigh Centre which is in the Cauldwell ward of Bedford on Ampthill Road. Our aim is to support women in the community to improve the quality of life for them and their families. We offer one to one support and mentoring, weekly workshops, training courses and support groups for women to promote healthy relationships and eradicate Domestic Abuse. The centre is run by Family Groups Bedford, which is a registered charity who have provided services to the local community since 1982.