Partnership Finder

CORE CIC was established in 2013 by George Charlton an individual in personal recovery from drug and alcohol addiction with the aim of supporting other socialy excluded and disenfranchised individuals who have experience of addictions to find recovery via different therapeutic mediums and use their 'Lived Experience' to reduce stigma and create empathy for those who suffer with addictions across the local community.

We work with individuals who have lived experience with problematic lifestyles owing to alcohol, drugs, or the criminal justice system and we help them to recognise that using their own live experiences to educate others can be such a powerful therapeutic medium not only to help themselves but also to inform the learnings of others be that with school children, police officers, social workers, drug and alcohol treatment providers and other individuals and services which come into contact with people who are disenfranchised within our communities.

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.

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.

Give a Book is a charity that promotes books and the pleasure of reading in the hardest places. Prison Reading Groups (PRG) is part of Give a Book. Our main areas of work are in prisons and custody suites throughout the UK. We provide creative and practical ways of leading to reading. We support family reading, reading groups, and other reading initiatives in the criminal justice sector.

Run For Your Life CIC

What We Do
Supporting Prison Governors: A Leadership Lifeline
We coach-train-mentor small groups of prison governors on Zoom so that they can stay sane, think clearly under pressure and bring their people with them while operating remotely in difficult circumstances.
This work started during the Covid-19 pandemic 2020 and has grown in scope to include Deputy Governors and other senior leaders.

Supporting People In Prison & Probation: A Frontline Lifeline
STUCK in a cycle of apathy, disengagement, addiction or violence.
At the START of a new stage in their role, treatment or rehabilitation.
Striving to SUPPORT each other as a team or family unit.

Our breakthrough program brings staff and service users together to practice the skills of collaboration to achieve shared goals.

Different, disruptive and deliberately difficult to complete.
24 hours of Physically Active Learning in 3 consecutive days.
Improved mental health

Unlock Drama (UD) has over eight years’ experience working across the criminal justice system, delivering in more than 30 prisons with groups including sex offenders, young offenders, women vulnerable prisoners and foreign nationals.

Prisons we work within include: HMPYOI Swinfen Hall, HMYOI Brinsford and HMP Send etc.

UD utilises creative methods, which offers a unique tool that encourages teamwork, confidence, communication skills, motivation, organisation, listening skills, leadership, resilience and more. UD deliver creative projects closely linked to rehabilitation and focuses on addressing dominant concerns within the prison estate such as Engagement in activities, Substance Misuse and Debt.

UD also delivers issue-based theatre within the community working with participants such as: recovering drug addicts, homeless, young people at risk of offending and ex-offenders.