Partnership Finder

EP: IC is an independent research, evaluation and consultancy collective in social and
criminal justice. Our team is formed from those with lived and learnt experience of prisons.

ENC's objectives are to help stop people from offending and reoffending; to support individuals and families to access Health, Social Care, Housing, Employment, Further Education, Welfare benefits. We support Disabled People, those with Long Term Conditions, mental health difficulties, Learning Disabilities. Additionally, we support children and their families in relation to social services, welfare and respite.. We also train individuals to be mentors or advocates in a voluntary role or paid employment so that they are able to support others.

Equinox provides services to people in social exclusion who have substance dependence and/or mental ill-health and/or homelessness. Amongst our services are a number of supported living and advice services specifically aimed at offenders. We work across London and the South East.

ESCAPE Family Support provides support and interventions to drug and alcohol users and their families in Northumberland, including those involved in the Criminal Justice System.

Escaping Victimhood was founded in 2007 by criminal justice professionals, who saw that many victims of serious crimes (such as the murder of a child) had extensive and on-going needs that were not being met.

We deliver four day (plus a one day follow up day) residential workshops designed to enable participants to ‘understand the past and embrace the future’. We also inform those working with victims of serious crime about the impact of trauma in their lives.

Our programme was developed to address the issues and helps restore participants to a more 'normal' life. It is unique and is delivered by skilled and professional facilitators. They are overseen by a lead facilitator, who is a highly experienced victim liaison worker and ensures strong and safe leadership of the workshop. . The structure of the programme is psycho-educative and therapeutic (with a small t) in a generic rather than specific sense.

Everlasting Evangelical Ministry is a faith-based charity which aims at help the East London borough of Newham, one of the six poorest London boroughs with a high crime rate among its young people. Everlasting Evangelical Ministry has begun consultation on a pilot project to provide education, employment, befriending and monitoring services to those young people in Newham who have experience of the Criminal Justice System. This project aims at helping young offenders to reintegrate into the society and therefore eradicate the probability of reoffending.

We work with people with lived experience of the criminal justice system to help them create their own employment and peer support networks by developing their own co-operative enterprises.

Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau aims:

• To provide the advice people need for the problems they face

• To improve the policies and practises that affect people’s lives

Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.

Exeter Community Initiatives (ECI) is a local charity that was started in 1993. The initial aim was to help local people facing poverty and homelessness, through projects such as St. Petrock’s. Since then our work has expanded to include Children’s Centres; projects that help the unemployed back to work; schemes to promote community cohesion and a mentoring service to support independent living. We work with Police, Health and Social Services to identify and support some of the most vulnerable families in the city.

We provide:
Family Support and group activities for any family in central Exeter with children under 5.
Adult mentoring through our Transitions project. We train and match volunteers to help adults make a transition into independent living.
1:1 support to families with children of any age who are struggling to cope with parenting or emotional and practical issues.
Employability and life skills for excluded young people.

Fair Shares runs Time Banks in Gloucestershire which focus on two way volunteering which is explained more fully below. We began our work with the prison estate with HMP Gloucester and this successful partnership continued for six years, until the prison closed in 2013. We are currently working with HMP Leyhill, HMP Erlestoke and HMP Eastwood Park and are developing work with HMP Dartmoor. Time Banking is a great way of engaging with all members of our communities and benefits on a number of social, health and economic levels. Our participants in the prisons are either involved in Times2, our Maths peer mentoring scheme or volunteer for other organisations and use time banking to add extra value to the work that they already undertake.
Time Banking is a system of two-way volunteering; for every hour of your time you put in, you earn an hour of help in return or you can decide to give those hours to help those in the community who need extra support via the goodwill pot.

Currently I am studying for a Masters in Inclusive Art Practice at the University of Brighton. I am hoping to run inclusive art workshops as part of my business alongside my own art practice and graphic design work

We offer a range of services and opportunities that provides inspiration and guidance:
• We encourage education, so we will show young people how to get into college, improve their skills and get qualifications. We help young people develop personally and socially - giving them the strength to reject violence and a life of crime.
• We improve relationships between fathers and sons, motivating them to realise their potential, raise their aspirations and build themselves a brighter future.
• We establish partnerships with parents, schools, community groups and local authorities. That way we can step in and help those young men at greatest risk of being sucked into gangs. We show them where they can get help and stay out of trouble.
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Our organisation peer supports families bereaved from acts of homicide and culpable road death. We also have a childrens group called OLLY that supports children who have not only been bereaved through acts of violence or road death but OLLY also introduces children from areas of high deprivation and poverty within areas of high crime rate. FFFJ also educates and deters our younger generation away from criminal activity or gang involvement, working also with families on a package designed for the family that need help and support with whatever the problems are within that family. Both organisations are run by qualified volunteers.

Family Action is a charity committed to building stronger families and brighter lives. We help individuals and communities address the challenges they face through practical, emotional and financial support. We support over 60,000 families and hundreds of thousands of children across the country each year through a wide range of national programmes and local services. Our work includes help for parents-to-be, parenting and relationship support, the provision of many nurseries and Children’s Centres in local communities, intensive family support, emotional health and wellbeing services, counselling, mediation and therapies, a range of mental health services including supported housing, wellbeing support in schools and GP surgeries, financial grants programmes and a range of training and consultancy services. We deliver support to women in the Mother and Baby Unit and pregnant women in HMP Styal.

Family Links is a national charity and training organisation dedicated to the promotion of emotional health at home, at school, and at work.

We offer high-quality training and resources for professionals working with families, school and university staff, and employees in the workplace.

Our vision is for every child and adult to be able to realise their individual potential, enjoy positive relationships and live healthy and fulfilled lives.

FearFree provides support to people with experience of domestic abuse and sexual violence, through one-to-one and structured group initiatives. We work with victims and survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence, as well as perpetrators of abuse.

Fearless Youth Association (FYA) support young people through active engagement, supporting them to refrain from youth and gang violence, tackling knife crime while supporting them to become active, responsible, confident and mindful citizens. FYA offers young people who are not in education, employment or training the opportunity to feel a sense of belonging, come together, learn from other young people, and build confidence and skills that can keep them away from violence on the streets.

Our core work is in:
*Knife crime training
*Digital media and IT skills training - including music, graphic design, broadcasting, IT skills etc
*Mental health and wellbeing projects including
*Training and employment in Building and construction, Business Admin, Hospitality, Retail, Healthcare
*Farm and Outdoor programmes

Feltham Community Chaplaincy Trust (FCCT) supports young people aged 15–25 as they move from custody back into the community, providing the consistent, relational support that so many lack. We work alongside young people at HMP/YOI Feltham and continue that support through the gate and into the community for up to 12 months, ensuring no one has to navigate release alone.
Our model is built on long-term, trusted relationships. Each young person is matched with a trained volunteer mentor who walks with them through the challenges of resettlement—housing, education and training, employment, mental health, family reconnection, and day to day problem solving. Mentors are supported and supervised by our full time resettlement workers, ensuring safe, structured, and high quality practice.
We specialise in working with young people who have experienced trauma, exclusion, and instability. Many have limited support networks and face multiple barriers on release. Our approach is patient, person centred, and strengths based: we focus on building confidence, stability, and hope through consistent presence and practical help.
Our services include:
• In custody engagement – meeting young people on the wings, building trust, and preparing for release.
• Through the gate support – meeting young people on the day of release and ensuring immediate needs are met.
• Community mentoring – weekly relational support focused on goals such as ETE, housing, wellbeing, and positive identity.
• Resettlement casework – structured support from our staff team, including advocacy, referrals, and multi agency coordination.
• Volunteer training and supervision – equipping local people to become safe, confident, and effective mentors.
We are the only community chaplaincy in the country dedicated specifically to 15–25 year olds, and our work is rooted in the belief that long term, trusted relationships are key to reducing reoffending and enabling young people to build meaningful, stable futures.

Fine Cell Work trains and pays prisoners to do craftwork in their cells to encourage motivation, improve mental health and build employability skills. FCW is geared to long-term, male and female, high risk offenders who stay on the programme for 2 to 10 years. Our goal is to enable prisoners to gain social and employment skills so they can desist from re-offending in the future. Prisoners on the programme work for 20-40 hours a week in their cells.

We have a workforce of approximately 250 prisoners across 30 prisons. The apprenticeship training is done by 50 skilled volunteers. The prisoners make hand-embroidered quilts, cushions, clothes, rugs and furniture covers which are sold internationally and to museums and designers.

Our aim is to enable prisoners to gain motivation and “work-readiness” by doing cellwork and to follow on with further employment preparation in workshops where they can do accredited training in soft furnishings, machine embroidery and upholstery.

We strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of disadvantaged people and communities by motivating healthy behaviour change. We specialise in delivering person focussed, outcomes driven Behaviour Change services and skills training to people and professionals living and working in the North East.