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We are a women's community service, with a busy centre offering a one-stop-shop approach for women and their children. We offer something at all stages of CJS - Police diversion, Liaison & diversion, community rehabilitation services, prison in-reach, through the gate. We offer family support and safeguarding. We have prison in-reach to HMP Drake Hall and Foston Hall offering resettlement support through the gate. We offer onsite accommodation 6 beds for women coming out of prison or fleeing DA. We have our own Independent Domestic Violence Advisor on site and offer in-house training courses on DA as well as many other topics. The project is well established having been in existence for 37 years. We have a strong team of volunteers and champions who offer a range of skills, personalities and strengths. We also provide enrichment activities in the CAMEO unit at HMP Foston hall and in Ardenleigh forensic mental health hospital.

Chepstow House (part of Brighter Futures) offers support to reduce adult reoffending amongst women in Stoke-on-Trent. Self referrals are accepted.

Support is provided through Support Workers, peer support groups and activity, courses and learning opportunities, and complementary therapies as well as access to a range of professionals including mental health and physical health nurses, and CAB advisors.

Changing Lives help vulnerable, disadvantaged and excluded people to make lasting changes in their lives. We have a total acceptance policy and are innovative, progressive and courageous in our work. We work holistically, combining appropriate services and support for each individual. Our support ranges from emergency intervention to training and employment.

Clean Break uses theatre to keep the subject of women in prison on the cultural radar, helping to reveal the damage caused by the failures of the criminal justice system. Through our unique work, we raise difficult questions, inspire debate, and help to effect profound and positive change in the lives of women with experience of the criminal justice system.

Since 1979, Clean Break has been the only women’s theatre company of its kind, and we continue to inspire playwrights and captivate audiences with our ground-breaking plays on the complex theme of women and crime.

Through theatre workshops and projects in prisons and in the community which build confidence, resilience and wellbeing, we transform the lives of women who have experienced the criminal justice system or who are at risk of entering it.

Criminon UK is a registered charity delivering distance learning life skills courses in many UK prisons. We are members of LASER Learning Awards (formerly the Open College Network South East Region), and have four courses accredited. Our accredited course "Understanding and Overcoming Addiction", aligns with learning outcomes of the NOCN National Qualification Unit's 'Introduction to Drug Awareness', Level 1. Our other accredited courses deal with literacy at Entry Level 2 and Level 1 and a simple guide to better living and self-respect at Entry Level 2. Further life skills courses we offer deal with Parenting, Communication and Personal Integrity. We also offer a Mentor Course which gives the offender the skills to help others with their literacy and allows them to give something back, helping them achieve greater confidence and self-respect.

Derventio provides accommodation, support and opportunities for people facing homelessness and other challenges.

We provide shared and single-occupancy supported housing for homeless people who are ready to take the next steps towards independence, including offenders, people with multiple complex needs and care leavers. Our housing is in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Wiltshire.

We also have specialist projects in Derbyshire. Healthy Futures is commissioned by health services and works with homeless people in hospital or high impact users of primary care. Our employability services help people into and towards work, education and training. Growing Lives provides community learning, skills development and practical experience.

Geese Theatre Company is a team of professional theatre practitioners who present interactive drama and facilitate workshops, staff training and consultation in prisons, secure mental health settings, young offender institutions, and in the community with probation services, youth offending teams and related agencies. A registered charity based in Birmingham, Geese works throughout the UK and overseas and has gained an international reputation for innovative work with vulnerable and socially excluded groups, becoming widely acknowledged as one of the key organisations championing the role of arts in the criminal justice system and wider social welfare arena. Our work provides solutions to a range of criminogenic issues, primarily focussing on attitudes, thinking and behaviour and addressing themes such as domestic abuse, sexual offending, violence, resettlement, substance misuse and offending, self-efficacy, and employability.

Mission Statement: To provide care, support, the relief of poverty and rehabilitation for offenders and ex-offenders who are or have been in custody, in particular but not exclusively by providing a support network for Muslim Chaplains.
Our Vision is to raise awareness in all communities of how to effectively contribute towards the vision of rehabilitation and resettlement of the National Offenders Management Service.

Our aims are:
• To support Muslim Chaplains.
• To work towards the resettlement of prisoners and prevention of re-offending upon release.
• To engage with the Muslim and wider Communities
• To provide Faith support inside and upon release
• Provide a mentor or link with faith community after release
• Provide CDs for mental well being of Muslim prisoners
• Print, design and assist in distributing material useful for prisoners
• Organise meetings for members to empower them to provide the above services

New Bridge match people in prisons with trained volunteers who offer long-term support through a combination of correspondence and visits. This provides people in prison with a bridge to the outside world, along with an increased sense of value and potential for their future.

No Offence! facilitates open access to and exchange of crime and justice information, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

No Offence! is a social enterprise, community interest company, not driven by private profit.

Our innovative and engaging approach facilitates the sharing of this information by instigating, supporting and encouraging communication and debate, which promotes wider understanding of complex criminal justice issues across society. By challenging barriers to positive change and influencing future policy, our objective is simple: to make a difference.

We have created a criminal justice information exchange service, which has become a centre for excellence, for the significant benefit of all who engage within the criminal justice sector.

Phoenix Futures provides services for people with drug and alcohol problems. We offer services within community, prison and residential settings in England and Scotland. Through our expertise we are able to support our service users at every stage of their recovery.

We have worked with a number of Probation Trusts delivering specialist substance misuse services.

Pact is a pioneering national charity that supports prisoners, people with convictions, and their children and families. We provide caring and life-changing services at every stage of the criminal justice process: in court, in prison, on release, and in the community, based on a public health model of practice.

We work in more than 60 prisons and provide prison-based family engagement and social workers, Visitors’ Centres, visitor support, supervised play, catering, family activities, relationship and parenting education programmes, court and community family support, resettlement support and community-based mentoring and befriending programmes. Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & Wales.

We also run the HMPPS contracted national Prisoners' Families Helpline which can be reached seven days a week on 0808 808 2003.

Our mission is to show Christ’s love to people in prison by coming alongside them and supporting them. We seek, through prayer and practical care, to help, support and develop a Christian ministry to people in prison and their families.

We do this through our network of over 2,500 volunteers. We are currently ministering in almost all of the 120 prisons in England and Wales.

Prison Reading Groups helps to set up and run reading groups in prisons. It runs groups in over 40 prisons, providing funding for books and helping find volunteers. It also provides books for Family Visit Days. It is part of the charity Give a Book.

We make it possible for volunteers in the community to write letters to prisoners, and to receive letters in return, and to do so in safety.

The Prisoners' Advice Service provides free legal advice and representation to adult prisoners in England and Wales regarding their rights, and regardless of the individual prisoners' means. PAS aims to educate and empower prisoners regarding the law and their legal and human rights.

REACH INSIDE is a charity that has been set up to help friends and family members of prisoners to REACH INSIDE and communicate easily with their loved ones.
Our POST–2–PRISON project allows anyone with online access to send a photo and a message to any UK prisoner completely free of charge.
All you need to do is visit our website (its mobile friendly too) and send your message, we will then print it and post it directly into prison.

Recycling Lives Charity & Social Enterprise reduces reoffending rates by supporting ex-offenders to develop skills, secure jobs and live independently.
Working with men and women in prison and in the community, it offers work and training opportunities, professional wrap-around support, peer-to-peer support and accommodation opportunities.

We provide direct support services within the community for ex-offenders, older people and people in debt. We work to support ex-offenders in the resettlement process, which includes offering supported housing and help with personal and practical development, with the aim of reducing the risk of reoffending.

We have a referral process and accept referrals from various statutory providers, voluntary sector providers and in person. All new referrals complete a referral form and risk assessment before being offered accommodation.


All clients take part in a support planning process. Each client has a support worker and regular reviews of the support plan take place. We use the outcome star to work with clients to help them to identify the various actions needed to address their journey to independent living away from offending.

All clients are able to access our training, volunteer mentoring scheme, opportunities for volunteering and our debt advice service.

Samaritans provides confidential emotional support to prisoners, either by telephone or face-to-face. The organisation also selects, trains and supports prisoners, known as Listeners, to offer confidential, emotional support to their fellow-inmates.