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3 Pillars Project works within the criminal justice system, using a combination of teamwork and rugby coaching courses as a way of engaging young people to deliver positive role-modelling and mentorship. We target high-risk young people, including under-18s, to tackle violence in prisons and gang-related behaviour through positive intervention. We also provide emotional support and guidance during each course through group discussion sessions and one-to-one mentoring relationships directed towards rehabilitation and reintegration on release from prison. We provide long-term support to all course participants, including referrals to appropriate partner organisations and/or encouraging future participation in subsequent courses as assistant coaches and peer mentors.

3SC manages contracts on behalf of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. The delivery of public services is a difficult and competitive marketplace, dominated by large commercial organisations that can lack the person-centred and inclusive approach to public services that the VCSE sector excels at delivering. 3SC gives these organisations a chance to compete for, and ultimately deliver, such contracts. We have built supply chains and worked with more than 550 different delivery organisations across 16 programmes in the welfare to work/employment, young people, criminal justice, and disabilities’ arenas. 3SC has supported and enabled the VCSE sector to access more than £62 million since its inception through our directly delivered contracts and Transforming Rehabilitation activities. We believe that the needs of people using public services, especially those who are hardest to reach, are best met by experienced, local, passionate and mission-driven organisations.

A new, disruptive social enterprise, founded by trainers with solid experience of delivering the latest evidence based techniques in ways that build your confidence in applying them immediately and implementation support to make them work for you.
We believe in the dissemination of helping skills through translating and demystifying best practice. We are now some of a handful of trainers licensed to deliver ''The Mindful Effective Employee" - an evidence based workforce intervention shown to reduce workplace stress and improve mental health.

We encourage organisations to ensure that their staff are given opportunities to learn alongside those who use their services. Evidence shows this co-learning provides important benefits for all.

Access Community Trust is based in Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth and Thetford and works with people who may be homeless, vulnerable and suffering from social exclusion. We believe that everyone, irrespective of their background and circumstances, is entitled to live in a decent home, enjoy positive and rewarding relationships with others, engage in some meaningful activity and achieve their maximum potential.

We work with hundreds of vulnerable and disadvantaged clients in our communities, providing six supported housing units, an information, advice and guidance drop-in centre, education and training services including work with schools and a youth-led project, an employment mentoring recruitment service and a dual diagnosis mental health service. Our services support men, women, families, single mothers and young people (16+) and our ultimate aim is to help people to attain independent living and personal fulfilment within their community.

Adelaide House Female Approved Premises is an award winning establishment, one of the eleven independently managed Approved Premises(IAP)in the country - operationally indistinguishable from the National Probation Service(NPS)estate. We are run by a small charity based in Liverpool - Liverpool Diocese Council for Social Aid and have been in existence and working with under privileged women since 1823. We are a national resource being one of only six female AP facilities in the country and we primarily provide enhanced supervision, structure and support for high risk of harm and/or complex need women in the Criminal Justices System either on release from prison as a condition of licence or as a residential requirement of a Community Order. We also have a small number of voluntary beds which women at risk are able to access including an Emergency Domestic Violence Victim bed. We deliver a wide range of services working in partnership with both statutory and community agencies.

ADVANCE Minerva delivers advocacy and support to women who have committed crime, or young women aged 16-24yrs at risk of committing crime. We work with London CRC to support women subject to Supervision, as well as offering support to women subject to short custodial sentences, including Through the Gates work. We offer one-to-one key-work to support women experiencing issues such as debt, family breakdown, social isolation, inadequate accommodation, poor physical and mental health, substance misuse and domestic or sexual violence. We run structured group-work programmes to increase confidence and self-esteem, plus diversionary activities to reduce social exclusion and surgeries with partner agencies to improve knowledge. Our aims are to offer a range of support to address the needs that lead women to offend, thereby reducing re-offending, and enabling women and children to live safer, violence free lives so that they can flourish and actively engage in society.

Employment, housing, education, complaints, community asset acquisition, welfare rights, criminal justice reports, human rights, access to healthcare and community care.

We are a women's community service, with a busy centre offering a one-stop-shop approach for women and their children. We offer community sentences as alternatives to custody by way of specified activity requirements,community payback and mental health treatment requirements. We offer family support and safeguarding, with a creche on site. We have prison in-reach to HMPs Eastwood Park, Drake Hall and Foston Hall offering resettlement support through the gate, with outreach on streets to sex workers. We offer accommodation floating support with partnerships with various housing providers. We have our own Independent Domestic Violence Advisor on site and offer in-house training courses on DV as well as many other topics. The project is well established having been in existence for 28 years. We have a strong team of volunteers and Catholic Sisters who offer a range of skills, personalities and strengths. We also provide enrichment activities in the CAMEO unit at HMP Foston hall.

The Arkbound Foundation works with people from disadvantaged backgrounds which include all protected characteristics, as well as poverty, deprivation, homelessness, alcohol and addictions, victims of abuse and any form of disadvantage.

We got founded by an ex-prisoner, we are equality and lived experience led, are in close contact with the beneficiaries we are supporting.

We provide writing and publishing services, which include writing for wellbeing, improving educational and career related writing skills, employability, social integration, improving mental health and tackling isolation, mentoring and editing support to get into publishing and journalism.

We run writing workshops for prisoners, motivational writing competitions which tackle stigma and aid social integration, also innovational book publishing projects.
We provide supervised work placements, arrange accessible and inclusive cultural and social events, and keep an open door to our beneficiaries to join us.

Welcome to Atrium! We are a professional Centre of Excellence delivering a range of high quality, therapeutic interventions to anyone with personal and psychological problems within the public (NHS), private and community sectors.

We work with a wide range of individuals and organisations across the social spectrum, both at a local and community level, and national statutory bodies such as the NHS and Criminal Justice sectors. At Atrium we work with some of the most excluded people in our communities and our expertise and ‘can-do’ approach means we are able to offer bespoke wellbeing solutions that are value for money.

Our focus is upon long-term recovery and produce effective treatment outcomes in relation to sustained change and improvement, based on evidence based interventions i.e. the most effective, safe and cost effective approaches that have been validated by documented scientific evidence.

AVision for Empowerment CIC is a social enterprise that believes everyone has the ability to achieve success regardless of their past history. Our tailored inspirational workshops and holistic accredited programmes motivate and inspire people to achieve employment, self-employment or to further their education and careers through soft and hard outcomes. We have over nine years’ We have delivered in the community, employment agencies and the criminal justice system within 21 prisons across the UK including the West Midlands, North East, South East, East Midlands and the Yorkshire and Humber region in partnership with Ixion Holdings, APM. Staffordshire West Midlands Community Rehabilitation Company, Pertemps People Development Group, Catch22, Milton Keynes College, and National Career Service leading over 4000 participants along the road to desistance and to achieve long term sustainable career success.

We are a Community Interest Company bringing business and IT skills to those who need it most. Our professional training is provided alongside dedicated learner support services to provide employment opportunities within local communities.

Our support services include online coaching, dedicated mentors, career advice and guidance and signpost services to other local community organisations specialising in a variety of areas. By partnering with local businesses we are able to provide work experience, work placements, volunteering opportunities and internships for all learners that complete a course with us.

BAC-IN is a culturally specific, Peer Led, award winning, 'grass roots' drug and alcohol recovery service. In 2003 BAC-IN developed a unique and successful 'transformative recovery' programme designed to help the Black and Minority Ethnic communities with recovery focused and offender rehabilitation support.

BAC-IN uses an integrated and culturally competent approach, which offers a diverse range of services designed to maximise transformative recovery, supporting individuals to take personal responsibility so that they may achieve freedom from addiction and become productive individuals within their communities.

Whilst BAC-IN is a culturally specific service, it is not culturally exclusive. We work in partnership across all sections of society, sharing good practice, consortia work and consultancy.

Barnardo’s runs over 1,000 services for children and families in local communities across the UK. Our work includes reaching and helping children who have been sexually exploited, young people leaving the care system, children with a parent in prison and families struggling to cope. We find loving adoptive homes and foster placements for children in care.

Barnardo's delivers family engagement services and visit centres in Dorset and West Midlands, including evidence based parenting programmes, one-to-one case work, and innovative engagement programmes to support families of prisoners and relationships with significant others. We have specialist knowledge working with vulnerable groups including working with families of veterans who are in prison and extensive experience working with care leavers.

Basis Yorkshire supports indoor and street sexworkers in Leeds with information and access to services including sexual health, housing, physical and mental health support, benefits, support regarding sexual and other forms of violence and advocacy on behalf of sexworkers. We also deliver a specialist one to one service for young people experiencing sexual exploitation and abuse in Leeds, Bradford and Hull. We also offer training nationally in all our areas of expertise and related areas and campaign for the rights of our service users.

Chance 2 Change is an 8 session group based programme, using the cognitive behavioural therapy to reduce negativity and marginalisation in our communities. Each group works intensively with up to 10 clients and seeks to nurture good where otherwise negative behaviour can become prevalent. We aim to make other interventions more effective and responsive by creating a solid foundation of emotional strength upon which other services can be used to build a complete and robust package of support.

Without tackling the underlying causes of why marginalisation exits in the first place it is very difficult to bring about lasting change and therefore it is necessary to alter the thinking patterns of participants before addressing the practical issues otherwise their underlying emotions will always cause conflict both in themselves and others. We believe and have demonstrated that change must start from within and we are best placed to deliver this.

Birmingham Community Development Scheme (BCDS) is a specialist organisation in Birmingham that provides mentoring to young offenders, ex-offenders and the long termed unemployed. BCDS specialized in the delivery of behaviour modification workshops, employability workshops, job clubs, CV and cover letters workshops and other programmes for young people who are at risk of offending and people who want to get back into work.

Our purpose is to improve the quality of life of people in Newcastle by bringing together the diversity and expertise of the voluntary and community sector to deliver a wide variety of services. The Consortium is a single point of contracting, benefitting commissioners by reducing transaction costs and befitting providers by developing them into a supply chain in which they can work together in a structured way. We have 40 members from the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

Currently we are delivering a contract to deliver an element of Fulfilling Lives, a highly innovative programme in to help people in Newcastle Gateshead with multiple needs (in terms of addiction, mental health, offending, and housing) to better manage their lives, by ensuring that the services they use are more tailored and better connected to each other.

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.

Brook helps young people up to the age of 25 with their sexual health, relationships and wellbeing so that they can be healthy happy and safe from harm. We are the only national charity that provides both clinical and educational services that address immediate health needs, and equip young people to develop positive, enjoyable relationships and become sexually healthy adults.
We deliver high quality education and information; provide one-to-one support with behaviour change; deliver accessible sexual and reproductive health services; and promote good health seeking behaviours.
In addition, we help develop professionals' confidence and competences; and adocate and campaign for education and health services that will improve health outcomes for all young people.