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2 Way Tenancy Solutions works with clients who are threatened with homelessness. We take a holistic approach to understand and address the root cause of their problems. Support is delivered through our financial capability programme which aims to equip beneficiaries with life skills needed to sustain and maintain their home. Our Reconnecting Communities Programme is aimed at people who are threatened with homelessness, suffer from mental health and have a substance misuse problem and a history of offending or are at risk of re-offending. Support is delivered to reduce the risk of violent offending and understand the root cause of the offending.

2911 Property is an early stage innovative property development social enterprise company. We work with investors and the education sector to provide vocational training opportunities in the construction/building industry with the aim of providing our clients opportunities to learn practical skills and undertake work experience. The end goal is to improve clients self-esteem, increase opportunities and employability. We work alongside local authorities and charities to place the refurbished/renovated properties into social housing schemes thereby providing increased accommodation opportunities for the clients.

3 Pillars Project works within the criminal justice system, using a combination of teamwork and rugby coaching courses as a way of engaging young people to deliver positive role-modelling and mentorship. We target high-risk young people, including under-18s, to tackle violence in prisons and gang-related behaviour through positive intervention. We also provide emotional support and guidance during each course through group discussion sessions and one-to-one mentoring relationships directed towards rehabilitation and reintegration on release from prison. We provide long-term support to all course participants, including referrals to appropriate partner organisations and/or encouraging future participation in subsequent courses as assistant coaches and peer mentors.

3SC manages contracts on behalf of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. The delivery of public services is a difficult and competitive marketplace, dominated by large commercial organisations that can lack the person-centred and inclusive approach to public services that the VCSE sector excels at delivering. 3SC gives these organisations a chance to compete for, and ultimately deliver, such contracts. We have built supply chains and worked with more than 550 different delivery organisations across 16 programmes in the welfare to work/employment, young people, criminal justice, and disabilities’ arenas. 3SC has supported and enabled the VCSE sector to access more than £62 million since its inception through our directly delivered contracts and Transforming Rehabilitation activities. We believe that the needs of people using public services, especially those who are hardest to reach, are best met by experienced, local, passionate and mission-driven organisations.

We provide training, workshops, one to one and keynote speeches to empower individuals and families. We use our designed CHOICE program that works on supporting with the following areas:
Confidence, Health (mental health), Organisation, Identity, Communication and Empowerment.

We use NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Life Coaching and Mindfulness to equip our programme participants with the necessary tools and techniques that will enable them to turn their life around and thrive.

We can provide special services to Arab, Kurds and Afghani/Iranian communities in their language if they struggle with language barriers.

We use our booklets and teaching materials to enhance the learning process.

Abianda works with gang-affected young women aged 10-24 in London and delivers training to professionals nationally. Our mission is to bring about a culture shift in the way services are delivered to gang-affected young women, so they feel safe to access help; to ensure they are no longer a hidden group in our communities; and they are free from harm and abuse. We pursue social impact through our services, training, and providing paid employment opportunities for gang-affected young women so that they can influence the future delivery of services.

Our unique model of practice addresses the barriers that stop young women seeking help. By asking young women the right questions and offering an equal, transparent relationship we help them discover their own resilience and competence and to develop the power to change their situation. Our former service users co-facilitate all our training, and so shape the way professionals understand GAYW and work with them.

A new, disruptive social enterprise, founded by trainers with solid experience of delivering the latest evidence based techniques in ways that build your confidence in applying them immediately and implementation support to make them work for you.
We believe in the dissemination of helping skills through translating and demystifying best practice. We are now some of a handful of trainers licensed to deliver ''The Mindful Effective Employee" - an evidence based workforce intervention shown to reduce workplace stress and improve mental health.

We encourage organisations to ensure that their staff are given opportunities to learn alongside those who use their services. Evidence shows this co-learning provides important benefits for all.

Access Community Trust is based in Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth and Thetford and works with people who may be homeless, vulnerable and suffering from social exclusion. We believe that everyone, irrespective of their background and circumstances, is entitled to live in a decent home, enjoy positive and rewarding relationships with others, engage in some meaningful activity and achieve their maximum potential.

We work with hundreds of vulnerable and disadvantaged clients in our communities, providing six supported housing units, an information, advice and guidance drop-in centre, education and training services including work with schools and a youth-led project, an employment mentoring recruitment service and a dual diagnosis mental health service. Our services support men, women, families, single mothers and young people (16+) and our ultimate aim is to help people to attain independent living and personal fulfilment within their community.

Access2Advice is a growing CIC, experienced in offering training and support to Category D prisoners. This training is augmented by offering opportunities to volunteer, which can then assist in finding employment.

The aim is to reduce reoffending in category D male prisoners within Derby and Derbyshire by addressing the key barriers to rehabilitation, such as improvement of self-confidence and motivation, improving transferable skills and employability, and by working with local businesses and the community to reduce stigma and discrimination. This is achieved through the 'breaking the cycle of re-offending' rehabilitation programme of training and support.

Current partners are APM, HMPPS.

Accord’s mission is to improve the lives of people by promoting their independence and choice through quality housing, care and support. Underpinning this mission are a set of values which we believe signpost us as a provider of choice for statutory, private and voluntary partners in the delivery of holistic
Our vision, flowing from these values, is to deliver services in a way that gives people greater choice and control and preserves their independence.

This will include:
• Extending choice through new supported housing options and across all tenure.
• Delivering care, support and other services in local neighbourhoods.
• Meeting the health needs of people in their communities, in homely environments.
• Creating an environment where people are valued and included at all levels.
• Building the confidence and capacity of people.
• Recognising the diversity of people and their needs.

Accord is a leading specialist in provision of health, social care and housing services.

Fry Housing Trust has been established for over 50 years, and provides accommodation-related support to ex-offenders who are at risk of homelessness. We work throughout the Midlands and currently support approximately 300 clients in Trust accommodation or through our floating support services - one of our properties is designated for ex-service personnel involved in the CJS. We additionally provide Specified Activity Requirement contracts for female offenders (Coventry & Warwickshire); resettlement services from Approved Premises across the West Midlands and the Birmingham Homeless Offender Resettlement Unit in Birmingham; and deliver a Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme in Coventry.

The Trust employs a dedicated Employment & Skills Advisor to work with our clients, supporting access to job markets, self-employment and training/educational opportunities.

The Trust is building its bank of volunteers and is proactive in employing and engaging ex-offenders.

The Charity takes a uniquely comprehensive approach to fulfilling its mission, covering the spectrum from prevention to recovery; including providing residential and non-residential treatment and recovery programmes, supporting families and children through a variety of interventions, as well as training professionals to work to a higher standard than ever before, commissioning research and engaging in advocacy, particularly against the stigma that so unhelpfully attaches to its beneficiaries.

The Charity is privileged to enjoy the patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge which not only brings benefits to Action on Addiction but also to the cause of disarming addiction as a whole.

Action on Addiction is keen to retain its independence in order to best serve its beneficiaries. This allows creativity in its search for more effective ways to disarm addiction. For example, the Brink in Liverpool, the UK’s first charity-owned alcohol free bar/cafe and entertainment

Action Acton is a regeneration charity in West London, placing hard-to-reach disadvantaged individuals into employment, training or education. Action Acton specialises in working with offenders and ex-offenders in partnership with Criminal Justice agencies. We are an 'end to end' subcontractor for the Work Programme and have a long track record of successfully delivering payment by results contracts.
We have 7 local offices in Acton Vale, South Acton Estate, Acton and Hounslow.

Adelaide House Female Approved Premises is an award winning establishment, one of the eleven independently managed Approved Premises(IAP)in the country - operationally indistinguishable from the National Probation Service(NPS)estate. We are run by a small charity based in Liverpool - Liverpool Diocese Council for Social Aid and have been in existence and working with under privileged women since 1823. We are a national resource being one of only six female AP facilities in the country and we primarily provide enhanced supervision, structure and support for high risk of harm and/or complex need women in the Criminal Justices System either on release from prison as a condition of licence or as a residential requirement of a Community Order. We also have a small number of voluntary beds which women at risk are able to access including an Emergency Domestic Violence Victim bed. We deliver a wide range of services working in partnership with both statutory and community agencies.

Adullam is a specialist supported housing association and the services we provide include supported accommodation, floating support, landlord accreditation schemes, bond schemes, and peer mentoring. We work with the most vulnerable people in society today and we offer hope and dignity through quality housing and support to people in the following client groups: homeless, young people leaving care, mothers & babies, people fleeing domestic violence, refugees and asylum seekers, people living with HIV/Aids, ex-offenders or those at risk of offending and people recovering from drug & alcohol addiction.

ADVANCE Minerva delivers advocacy and support to women who have committed crime, or young women aged 16-24yrs at risk of committing crime. We work with London CRC to support women subject to Supervision, as well as offering support to women subject to short custodial sentences, including Through the Gates work. We offer one-to-one key-work to support women experiencing issues such as debt, family breakdown, social isolation, inadequate accommodation, poor physical and mental health, substance misuse and domestic or sexual violence. We run structured group-work programmes to increase confidence and self-esteem, plus diversionary activities to reduce social exclusion and surgeries with partner agencies to improve knowledge. Our aims are to offer a range of support to address the needs that lead women to offend, thereby reducing re-offending, and enabling women and children to live safer, violence free lives so that they can flourish and actively engage in society.

Employment, housing, education, complaints, community asset acquisition, welfare rights, criminal justice reports, human rights, access to healthcare and community care.

The African Cultural Association is a community learning organisation and registered charity that has been supporting unemployed vulnerable and disadvantaged people since its inception in 1995.

We seek to promote awareness of different cultures in multicultural Britain and bring different communities closer to each other. We offer both training and advice services, with the latter covering areas such as housing, immigration, health, employment, legal services, education, racial harassment and debt management.

Our training is centred on the skills needed for garment construction/manufacture (Fashion, Dressmaking, Pattern cutting & Craft for beginners, Intermediate and Advance, to improve their garment construction skills to enable them to set up their own business in Dressmaking and Fashion). Our training is currently delivered from our premises in Hendon, NW4 4JX, but our resources are portable, allowing us the ability to deliver from community venues anywhere in London.

Age UK Lancashire is the authoritative voice on ageing in Lancashire. We are ‘Passionate about later life: enabling choice, independence and control’ offering services and support to older people (aged 50+) in Lancashire, Blackpool & North Sefton which aim to ensure older people & their carers are fully informed of their rights and entitlements; support those with long term conditions to remain as independent as possible; connect older people to their communities to combat isolation and loneliness.
Our Age of Opportunity project supports people aged 50 and over who would like to work but who are unable to without additional support, especially those who are most at risk of social exclusion due to mental or physical health difficulties, homelessness or being full-time carers, for example.
Our other work includes Day Time Support, Dementia Support, Information Services & Support, Home Help, Veterans Services, Integrated Care, Hospital Aftercare, Footcare & support for community groups.

The AIM Partnership is a cross sector collection of private, public and voluntary sector organisations working across the West Midlands region undertaking action research for moving offenders into employment. The partnership also has multiple European partners based in Sweden, Sardinia, Portugal and Romania. The partnership is working towards being established as either a charity or social enterprise in 2013 to continue its pioneering work with those at risk of offending into the labour market.