Partnership Finder

We are a counselling and training organisation that offers a professional, affordable counselling service to anyone aged over 16 who is needing help to get through a difficult time. We also offer accredited counsellor and professional development training to Diploma level. We hire out our training and counselling rooms to other organisations.

Unlock is an independent award-winning national charity that provides a voice and support for people with convictions who are facing stigma and obstacles because of their criminal record, often long after they have served their sentence.

Firstly, we help people. We provide information, advice and support to people with convictions, including running an information site and confidential peer-run helpline. We help practitioners support people with convictions by providing criminal record disclosure training. And we support employers and universities in treating people with criminal records fairly.

Secondly, we advocate for change, working at policy level to address systemic and structural issues. We listen to and consult with people with criminal records, undertake research and produce evidence-based reports to inform policy makers and the public. We challenge bad practice, influence attitudes and speak truth to power. We co-founded and support the Ban the Box campaign.

User Voice was created for and by people who have been in prison and on probation. Lived experience means we engage empathetically instead of sympathetically.

Lived experience is the core of what we do. It’s not a token it’s a benefit. 80% of our team have lived experience. That’s from our founder and CEO, in our SLT and across our engagement team. All our volunteers have lived experience and we make sure that their progression, through and outside of User Voice, is just one of the ways we all benefit from their contribution.

We exist to reduce offending and support rehabilitation by working with the most marginalised people in and around the criminal justice system to ensure that practitioners and policy-makers hear their voices.

YMCA Exeter's Perspectives Project exists to empower, educate and mentor young men caught up in the Criminal Justice System.

Working with young men on community orders, suspended sentences or post-sentence supervision there are three key strands to our work:

Learning: We run small group community based courses for ex-offenders that focus on personal and interpersonal skills.

Mentoring: In association with Dorset, Devon and Cornwall CRC, we offer one to one mentoring support for young men on probation as part of their community order. Mentoring addresses: housing; food and finance; mental health and wellbeing; purpose and identity; support networks and contributing to society, including employment.

Therapeutic Activity: We run a Social and Therapeutic Horticulture Programme on our community allotment. This programme provides physical and mental space for enrichment and a supportive community through growing and sowing together. We also run cooking classes in the winter.

Youth Ink is a lived experience led charity operating in the heart of communities, we are experts by experience.
We work in co-production with young people stakeholders, adopting our innovative peer-led approach.

We use the power of peer networks to rehabilitate and to create safer communities for the future.
We enable young people caught up in the cycle of crime, addiction, mental health or care, to improve the services they receive. In turn, improving their life chances benefits them and their family, friends, neighbours, and the local community.

1) The rehabilitation of ex-offenders and the prevention of crime and anti social behaviour, in particular but not exclusively, by:
A) Facilitating their integration and constructive engagement in society;
B) The provision of support, information and advocacy for ex-offenders, those at risk of offending and the victims of crime; and
C) The promotion and development of best practice models of integrated offender management.
2) The promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.

CESI is a company limited by guarantee, dedicated to promoting social justice. It delivers research, develops innovative policy solutions and organises events and training. It also runs the European Offender Employment Forum and is particularly interested in developing resettlement solutions around housing, employment and drugs-related issues.

CDF is a social enterprise that is passionate about helping communities. We have unique expertise in using community development to strengthen local voices, improve people’s lives and create better places to live.

We aim to achieve our vision of successful lives in flourishing communities through our mission to bring together resources, insight and people so that communities can flourish.

We manage money, support and people, working with, and in, communities.

We identify, mobilise, and build on networks and skills to catalyse community-led action.

We reveal the potential of communities to act on opportunities and respond to challenges.