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Apex Trust is a place where all individuals have an opportunity to turn their lives around, to improve society and strengthen communities. To achieve this, we will continue to offer career, training and vocational advice & guidance for people whose actions or behaviours have led to negative consequences for themselves and others enabling them to make positive choices and turn their lives around and to lead happy, fulfilling lives.
We have delivered services within the community of St Helens, Merseyside since 1996.
The core part of our services are our specialist advice & guidance support projects to offenders and those at risk offending within the community. We support individuals within the community break down the barriers they face by having a criminal record or are at risk of offending, to enable them to be in a stronger position to gain employment, training, education or voluntary work.
Social Groups
Men’s wellbeing group
Women’s Hub
Young @ Heart
Plan Bee is our community coffee shop which launched in January 2020. We are a fully trading coffee shop which has a staff team and volunteers (who are at risk of offending or have a criminal record). Plan Bee enables volunteers to train with us and gain skills and knowledge which will give them experience required within the hospitality sector within a café, coffee shop, restaurant etc. Volunteers follow a 5-step programme where the advice & guidance staff will support them to gain employment.
Apex Trust is a place where all individuals have an opportunity to turn their lives around, to improve society and strengthen communities. To achieve this, we will continue to offer career, training and vocational advice & guidance for people whose actions or behaviours have led to negative consequences for themselves and others enabling them to make positive choices and turn their lives around and to lead happy, fulfilling lives.
We have delivered services within the community of St Helens, Merseyside since 1996.
The core part of our services are our specialist advice & guidance support projects to offenders and those at risk offending within the community. We support individuals within the community break down the barriers they face by having a criminal record or are at risk of offending, to enable them to be in a stronger position to gain employment, training, education or voluntary work.
Social Groups
Men’s wellbeing group
Women’s Hub
Young @ Heart
Plan Bee is our community coffee shop which launched in January 2020. We are a fully trading coffee shop which has a staff team and volunteers (who are at risk of offending or have a criminal record). Plan Bee enables volunteers to train with us and gain skills and knowledge which will give them experience required within the hospitality sector within a café, coffee shop, restaurant etc. Volunteers follow a 5-step programme where the advice & guidance staff will support them to gain employment.
Contact
Work Tel. No.
01744 612 898
sthelens@apextrust.com
Website
In Brief
Primary Field of Work
Advice & advocacy
Custody or Community
Community
No. of service users
100
No. of Paid Staff
5
No. of Volunteers
10
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Legal status
Company limited by guarantee
Year of Formation
1982
Organisation's Income
£100K - £250k
Contract History
Supporting information
We have worked in the St Helens, Merseyside area since 1996 offering a tailored service to offenders and those at risk of offending to move away from a life of crime to employment, training, and education (ETE) & voluntary work. We work with local adult ex-offenders to release their full potential and support them in breaking down the barriers they face. We provide information, advice and guidance through face to face & outreach, fulfilling our aims by working with individuals not adequately supported elsewhere. A major barrier to finding employment for people with a criminal record is overcoming employer resistance; we provide specialised advice & support to help individuals to positively disclosure their convictions.
Our service provides 1-1, holistic support to people through our advice & guidance officers supporting our client group to positively disclose their criminal record when applying for employment, voluntary work, and higher education.
Our service provides 1-1, holistic support to people through our advice & guidance officers supporting our client group to positively disclose their criminal record when applying for employment, voluntary work, and higher education.
Regions
North West
Merseyside (Met County)
St. Helens
Area covered
Local or neighbourhood
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy
Employment
Lived experience involvement
Mental health
Mentoring & befriending
Personal development
Resettlement
Volunteering
People you work with
Men
Older people
Women