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Kikit Pathways to Recovery is a culturally sensitive BAME community and service user led social enterprise, providing intervention outcomes based on community needs. PWR aims to provide a “bridge” service between service users and the community into statutory and voluntary services, empowering the community to identify their own issues and work together to provide solutions. Services include service user group, peer support, alcohol recovery group, BAME specialist training, mediation, Recovery Champions and research.

At Kiwi Communities CIC, our primary objective is to improve communities by using restorative approaches and solution focused practices. We deliver both short, impactful information workshops and long-term projects. All our work aims to change the mindsets of the participants and provide activities and skills which can be used immediately in various social situations; reducing conflict and finding solutions.

Our focus is on improving and investing in the communities in which we work. As we are an inclusive and person-centered service, we upskill people from any background and all ages.

Kiwi Communities CIC tackle a wide range of social issues including but not limited to:
- Reducing re-offending
- Improving the prospects of the long-term unemployed
- Rebuilding relationships
- Challenging negative behaviours
- Raising resilience and confidence

By using our solutions to achieve positive outcomes, we believe that Kiwi Communities CIC has a distinct and valuable role to play in helping create strong, sustainable and socially inclusive communities.

The aim of Kyra – Women’s Project is to provide a safe women-only inclusive environment where all women can receive support and advice to make decisions about their lives. The centre is available to all women in York. This includes women who have experience of the Criminal Justice System and women who feel vulnerable and at risk. Kyra- Women’s Project will benefit not only women but also their families and local community.
We provide a range of support services. These include an informal drop-in centre staffed with support services available. We also provide motivational encouragement for women in terms of goal setting and practical problem solving. We train our volunteers to provide mentoring and befriending support. This could include, when necessary, accompanying them to meetings outside of the centre. Through a range of creative activities, art, music, design we aim to provide an environment where women support each other and in turn work as Volunteers in the centre.

Lancashire Women’s Centres is a leading charity for women and girls in Lancashire with over 4000 women accessing their services over the past year and 130 active volunteers. Their vision is where all women and girls in Lancashire are valued and treated as equals. Lancashire Women’s Centres empower women and girls to be able to transform their lives by bringing them together to: find their voice, share experiences and understanding, develop their knowledge and skills and challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about them… so that they can have choices in becoming the individuals they want to be.

We have specific provision to address the needs of women in the criminal justice system. We offer an evidence based mental health service and in house interventions across all pathways to offending. We deliver a complete pathway from crisis into education, employment and training.

LandWorks offers a full-time, comprehensive service with integrated support across a broad range of issues at one location. We replicate a real working environment where accomplishment and achievement is valued. LandWorks also offers a safe place to be vulnerable, a place to build trusting individual relationships, and above all, a chance to develop a non-criminal identity. Our excellent statistics speak for themselves but we view real success as former trainees getting married, starting a family, and generally leading settled, contributing lives in their communities.

Since 2013, LandWorks has supported over 100 people serving community sentences and on day release from prison. We are proud to have maintained an employment rate of over 90% for our graduates, and a reoffending rate of less than 6%. LandWorks now employs two of its own ‘graduates’.

Langley House Trust works with ex-offenders, and those at risk of offending, to establish positive foundations so that they can lead crime-free lives and become contributors to society. We have a 3% reconviction rate nationally. We achieve this through accommodation-based support, comprehensive rehabilitation and personal development programmes, education and vocational training, move-on support and in-prison visiting. We are a Christian charity, working with people of any faith or no faith.

Latch is a unique charitable organisation that refurbishes derelict and run-down houses in the Chapeltown, Harehills and Burley areas of Leeds.

When they’re fully modernised and furnished, our properties provide supported housing for people who are homeless or in housing need and are ready to make a positive change in their lives.

Unemployed volunteers work on the refurbishments alongside Latch staff, gaining skills, confidence and work experience.

Please visit our website to download application forms for housing or volunteering.

We have almost 40 years of experience in designing and delivering highly impactful training programmes to young people and the adults in their lives about successful conflict navigation.

We were created in 1987 to work through music and drama to help young unemployed people to understand the conflicts in their lives and give them the tools and confidence to make better choices when confronting conflict.

Our vision is a society where conflict is navigated effectively. Here, we investigate what conflict means for different people and how conflict shows up in our lives.

Learn to Re-create is a start-up social enterprise that offers fashion and textile crafts training as part of a vocational support programme and employment to vulnerable or economically disadvantaged adults. In addition we offer a selection of textile craft and clothes re-styling workshops and deliver specialist services namely product design and production to businesses in the textile and fashion industry for commercial sale.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear. We use the services project services and programs to empower the BME community to discover their purpose their pathway and place them around the right network of people who will nurture their talents and gifts in order for them be productive, prosperous in good health, create wealth and leave a legacy.

Life Cycle Bike Back bike recycling project operates in both Bristol and Derby. Unwanted bikes are donated by members of the public and are taken to HMP Bristol & HMP Stocken where they are stripped down, cleaned and rebuilt by prisoners. Prisoners learn employability and mechanical skill. In Stocken they achieve a City & Guilds Level 2, In Bristol a City & Guilds Level 1. When bikes leave the prison workshops they are checked and made ready for sale by volunteers. We have some limited opportunities for people on licence and ex-offenders to volunteer for us. We are planning to increase these opportunities significantly. Refurbished bikes are sold to members of the public at pop-up sales. Both projects have bikes available at low cost through the Wheels to Work scheme.

developmentplus is a community development charity based in Lincoln, It delivers a small number of 1-1 coaching and mentoring programmes including Bridging the Gap (BTG). BTG is a reducing re-offending project which supports men and women on release from prison into the Lincoln area providing an intensive mentoring service that covers all 9 pathways. It supports individuals with housing issues, benefit advise, relationship support, drug and alcohol support as well as many other areas. We address all issues at the same time and support individuals for as long as they need.

LAT provides resettlement and rehabilitation support for individuals involved at all stages of the criminal justice system from the point of arrest; as well as for their families and dependants.

The charity delivers ETE, housing, family support and resettlement interventions both in prisons and in the community. Specific interventions are offered for women. LAT works with all offence types, and has particular specialism in resettlement of men convicted of sexual offences.

LAT delivers a number of national programmes including Liaison and Diversion and CFO3, as well as local innovations such as Young Oasis which helps children living with a parent or guardian with a drug or alcohol addiction. LAT also introduced the 'departure lounge' concept to prison, starting UK's first one at HMP Lincoln in 2015.

Volunteers are a key aspect of support, and individuals including peers, are recruited and trained for various volunteering and mentoring roles.

LITC is a pioneering Social Enterprise providing Youth Citizenship, Volunteering and International exchange programmes, Sports and Development and Community Engagement projects, as well as a Apprenticeships to young people in a range of dynamic training qualifications. Working on a Local, National and International platform, LITC strives to make a difference to our societies. LITC's youth services provide a wraparound support services, through Traineeships, Information Advice and Guidance, International programs and Apprenticeships.

Lippy People is a social purpose organisation with a long standing commitment to supporting prisoners and ex-offenders increase their ability to challenge their attitudes and behaviours, develop life, career and enterprise skills, and achieve goals that lead to successful resettlement. Based in West Yorkshire, with a national remit, Our mission is to support the achievement of positive personal and social change by helping people to overcome social and economic exclusion and inequalities through film and digital storytelling, coaching, mentoring and enterprise development. Lippy People has worked extensively providing both prison and community based life, career and enterprise coaching and supporting prisoners and ex-offenders to produce films to improve the delivery of offending behaviour programmes, education & skills, safer custody, resettlement, drug treatment, through the gate initiatives, employment, induction and personal goals… amongst other thematic areas.

North Liverpool CAB provides free, confidential, generalist & specialist advice, advocacy and education from 3 main bureaux and out reach services. We also deliver financial capability workshops - last year 800 people attended one of our sessions covering debt awareness, budgeting and affordable credit. We help the most disadvantaged people in the community & have specialist projects working with e.g lone parents & people with mental health needs. We also offer volunteering opportunities in advice, financial capability and support roles.

Llamau is Wales leading homelessness organisation, working with homeless young people and vulnerable people across Wales. We provide supported accommodation, family mediation, training and employability and a range of gender specific services. We work with young people who have offended, care leavers, victims of abuse, vulnerable women, children and families as well as other marginalised groups with complex needs. We also have a resettlement project, providing resettlement broker coordinators to North and Southern Wales in order to help facilitate effective resettlement of young people who are in custody, or who have resettlement needs. This project has established several Reintegration and Resettlement Partnerships across Wales.

Locked UP Potential exists to fill a gap that the justice system is unable to fulfil, due to lack of funding, lack of resources and high caseloads. The peer-led eco system, that we are create through Locked UP Potential, can lead those trapped in the system to lead lives that are crime free and will keep communities safe. The eco system gives opportunities to those with a lived experience to be mentors, facilitators, co-facilitators and offer consultancy support that will support justice decision makers to create a farer system for all.
The aim of Locked UP Potential is to reduce prison and probation numbers, reduce reoffending/recall rates and to ultimately reduce the prison population by offering early help support to the communities that feed the current prison system.
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Locked UP Potential will deliver talks as an introduction to what we do. These talks will be from a mixture of cohorts who have successfully left a

We run community service sessions with young people coming through the criminal justice system. We train them in fine art and design skills. They have supported our work with public realm installations. We have also taken prisoners leaving prisons, preparing them for life outside.
We have a collection of art work by offenders that is suitable for touring.
Our Director is interested in the planned closure of prisons, leading to the Abolition of Prisons.

Advice, advocacy, and support with the employment barriers of ex-offenders. Working individuals, employers and various organisations to ensure safe recruitment and sustainable employment.

We aim to change the mindsets of society and ensure the barriers to and throughout employment of ex-offenders are challenged. This is achieved by working with all aspects of the process: The individual affected; Employers; and society.

We offer a range of bespoke services that include support,training, and public speaking.

The founder is experienced in all aspects of employment of ex-offenders. He has been a been a service user, provided service delivery and service management. His vast experience and expertise in this field enables him to provide significant insight from all aspects of working with ex-offenders and ensure successful outcomes. He is an ex-offender (when does one lose the title of ex-offender) and experienced various barriers to employment. Now he tackles barriers.