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Join ClinksWe work with people from all disadvantaged backgrounds, all equality protected characteristics; also: suffering from poverty, deprivation, homelessness, addictions, ex-prisoners, past convictions, abuse, neurodiversity, isolation...
We are grassroots, equality and lived experience founded and led, are in close contact with the beneficiaries we are supporting.
We provide writing and publishing services, which include writing for wellbeing, improving educational and career related writing skills, employability, social integration, improving mental health and tackling isolation, mentoring and editing support to get into publishing and journalism.
We run writing workshops for prisoners, motivational writing competitions which tackle stigma and aid social integration, also innovational book publishing projects.
We provide supervised work placements, arrange accessible and inclusive cultural and social events. Our beneficiaries can join us as volunteers, staff, and trustees
We are grassroots, equality and lived experience founded and led, are in close contact with the beneficiaries we are supporting.
We provide writing and publishing services, which include writing for wellbeing, improving educational and career related writing skills, employability, social integration, improving mental health and tackling isolation, mentoring and editing support to get into publishing and journalism.
We run writing workshops for prisoners, motivational writing competitions which tackle stigma and aid social integration, also innovational book publishing projects.
We provide supervised work placements, arrange accessible and inclusive cultural and social events. Our beneficiaries can join us as volunteers, staff, and trustees
Contact
Work Tel. No.
0117 298 0516
info@arkfound.org
Website
In Brief
Primary Field of Work
Media
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
No. of service users
321
No. of Paid Staff
7
No. of Volunteers
21
No. of peer mentors
9
Organisation type
Social Enterprise - non-profit
Legal status
Charitable incorporated organisation
Year of Formation
2017
Organisation's Income
£100K - £250k
Contract History
Evidence reports
https://www.arkfound.org
https://arkbound.com/
https://www.arkfound.org/writingwithinwalls.php
Supporting information
We are registered with the Charity Commission, our governing document and annual reports and accounts are public on our gov.uk site: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/5088186/charity-overview
We post regular updates on our 3 websites and 5 social media platforms.
We are lived experience founded and published books and collections of stories written by prisoners and people with convictions. Our prospective authors receive support and then 66% of the return from the sales of their books as royalties (the highest amount for any author).
We run regular writing and mentoring workshops, employ mentors with lived experience, mainly provide future lifelong learning and career development, but also some employment opportunities.
We recently launched https://crowdbound.org/ - a non-profit crowdfunding platform to support books and projects.
Please follow us, we are happy to provide further details and testimonials of our work.
We post regular updates on our 3 websites and 5 social media platforms.
We are lived experience founded and published books and collections of stories written by prisoners and people with convictions. Our prospective authors receive support and then 66% of the return from the sales of their books as royalties (the highest amount for any author).
We run regular writing and mentoring workshops, employ mentors with lived experience, mainly provide future lifelong learning and career development, but also some employment opportunities.
We recently launched https://crowdbound.org/ - a non-profit crowdfunding platform to support books and projects.
Please follow us, we are happy to provide further details and testimonials of our work.
Partner organisations
Big Issue
Forward Trust
New Leafe
Lady Val Corbett
Prisoner Learning Alliance
Regions
London
Inner London
Outer London
South West
Plymouth UA
Bristol, City of UA
Wiltshire UA 12
Torbay UA
Swindon UA
South Gloucestershire UA
Bath and North East Somerset UA
Remote
Area covered
National - England and Wales
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy
Alcohol & drugs
Arts
Attitudes, thinking and behaviour
Collaboration and partnership working
Counselling
Covid-19
Disability
Education
Employment
Environment & regeneration
Evaluation and effectiveness
Holistic services
Housing & homelessness
Lived experience involvement
Lobbying & campaigning
Media
Mental health
Mentoring & befriending
Other
Peer support
Personal development
Prison reform
Prisons
Probation reform
Race
Research & academia
Restorative justice
Sentence management
Through the gate
Volunteering
People you work with
Ex-service personnel
Foreign nationals
Gypsies & Travellers
LGBTQIA+
Men
Older people
People convicted of serious offences
People on a short sentence
People on remand
People with disabilities
People with English as a second language
Racially minoritised people
Refugees & asylum seekers
Roma people
Victims
Women
Young people
Racially minoritised people specialist services
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Bangladeshi
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Chinese
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Pakistani
Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh: Other Asian
Black, Black British or Black Welsh
Black, Black British, or Black Welsh: African
Black, Black British or Black Welsh: Caribbean
White: Irish
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller
White: Roma
Other ethnic group: Arab
Foreign Nationals
Dual Heritage