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Join ClinksBLAST Foundation is a Christian "Through The Gate" Resettlement organisation, working with prisoners and ex-offenders and their families of all faiths and no faiths. BLAST aim to be provider of choice, for prisons and probation trusts wishing to reduce recidivism and improve resettlement for prison inmates who want to transform their lives and break their cycle of re-offending. BLAST achieves this through our transformation, employability & business programmes delivered in prison. These programmes combine and are supported by BLASTs mentor and resettlement services, to support ex-offenders and their families in the difficult task of re-integrating in society
Contact
Address
"Boscombe"
Oxford Road
Gerrard's Cross
Buckinghamshire
SL9 7DP
United Kingdom
Help Line No.
07980 897154
Work Tel. No.
01753 889190
ralph.findlay@blastfoundation.org.uk
In Brief
Primary Field of Work
Resettlement
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
No. of service users
120
No. of Paid Staff
0
No. of Volunteers
17
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Legal status
Company limited by guarantee
Year of Formation
2010
Organisation's Income
Less than £30k
Contract History
Supporting information
BLAST is about change and we believe transformation at the heart of this and is within each person. Change happens through building relationships in prison, through-the-gate and into the community.
Students on BLAST's 5 week full-time in prison programme, develop new ways of thinking about themselves, confront their past and develop new perspectives for their future. BLAST deliver life & employability skill programmes, underpinned by our Mentor programme, in turn supported by caseworkers for effective resettlement. BLAST also operate our Meet@Gate service.
BLAST achieves this by using a co-operative, open and creative learning environment where relationships and students are valued. This builds self-confidence and empowers individuals to strive to reconcile their past and thus change their future.
BLAST work with a number of partner organisations and local community groups, including faith based organisations, with local employers (Retailers, Engineering, Councils etc...).
Students on BLAST's 5 week full-time in prison programme, develop new ways of thinking about themselves, confront their past and develop new perspectives for their future. BLAST deliver life & employability skill programmes, underpinned by our Mentor programme, in turn supported by caseworkers for effective resettlement. BLAST also operate our Meet@Gate service.
BLAST achieves this by using a co-operative, open and creative learning environment where relationships and students are valued. This builds self-confidence and empowers individuals to strive to reconcile their past and thus change their future.
BLAST work with a number of partner organisations and local community groups, including faith based organisations, with local employers (Retailers, Engineering, Councils etc...).
Regions
East
East Midlands
Northamptonshire
Northampton
South Northamptonshire
Wellingborough
London
Inner London
Lambeth
Camden
City of London
Hackney
Hammersmith and Fulham
Haringey
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Lewisham
Newham
Southwark
Tower Hamlets
Wandsworth
Westminster
Outer London
Hounslow
Ealing
Enfield
Greenwich
Harrow
Hillingdon
Kingston upon Thames
Brent
Merton
Richmond upon Thames
Sutton
Bexley
South East
Bracknell Forest UA
Buckinghamshire
South Bucks
Wycombe
Aylesbury Vale
Chiltern
Hampshire
Basingstoke and Deane
Eastleigh
Fareham
Havant
New Forest
Winchester
Kent
Dartford
Maidstone
Tonbridge and Malling
Tunbridge Wells
Milton Keynes UA
Oxfordshire
West Oxfordshire
Oxford
South Oxfordshire
Vale of White Horse
Reading UA
Slough UA
Surrey
West Berkshire UA
West Sussex
Windsor and Maidenhead UA
Wokingham UA
South West
Bournemouth UA
Dorset
East Dorset
Weymouth and Portland
West Dorset
Purbeck
North Dorset
Christchurch
Bristol, City of UA
North Somerset UA
Poole UA
Wiltshire UA 12
Swindon UA
South Gloucestershire UA
Bath and North East Somerset UA
Yorkshire and the Humber
West Yorkshire (Met County)
Leeds
South Yorkshire (Met County)
Rotherham
Doncaster
Area covered
1 or more regions
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy
Attitudes, thinking and behaviour
Case management
Counselling
Education
Employment
Faith
Family support
Holistic services
Housing & homelessness
Mediation
Mentoring & befriending
Sentence management
Personal development
Prison reform
Prisons
Relationships
Resettlement
Restorative justice
Lived experience involvement
Through the gate
Training
Volunteering
People you work with
Families
Gypsies & Travellers
Men
Older people
Racially minoritised people
People convicted of serious offences
Victims
Women
Young people
Racially minoritised people specialist services
Black, Black British or Black Welsh
Black, Black British, or Black Welsh: African
Black, Black British or Black Welsh: Caribbean
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian
Other ethnic group: Arab
White: Irish
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller
Foreign Nationals
Dual Heritage