Partnership Finder

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.

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.

Adferiad Recovery combines the skills and expertise of its founding charities to provide outstanding services for people in Wales with mental health problems, substance misuse problems, and those with co-occurring and complex needs.

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

Age UK Lancashire is the authoritative voice on ageing in Lancashire. We are ‘Passionate about later life: enabling choice, independence and control’ offering services and support to older people (aged 50+) in Lancashire, Blackpool & North Sefton which aim to ensure older people & their carers are fully informed of their rights and entitlements; support those with long term conditions to remain as independent as possible; connect older people to their communities to combat isolation and loneliness.
Our Age of Opportunity project supports people aged 50 and over who would like to work but who are unable to without additional support, especially those who are most at risk of social exclusion due to mental or physical health difficulties, homelessness or being full-time carers, for example.
Our other work includes Day Time Support, Dementia Support, Information Services & Support, Home Help, Veterans Services, Integrated Care, Hospital Aftercare, Footcare & support for community groups.

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.

We work with people from all disadvantaged backgrounds, all equality protected characteristics; also: suffering from poverty, deprivation, homelessness, addictions, ex-prisoners, past convictions, abuse, neurodiversity, isolation...

We are grassroots, equality and lived experience founded and 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. Our beneficiaries can join us as volunteers, staff, and trustees

Advice and information

Barnardo’s is one of the UK’s leading children’s charities. Our overarching commitment remains to change the lives of vulnerable children and young people within our broader work with families and communities, giving them hope and helping them to realise their full potential. Our pledge is that we believe in children and young people and our vision is that the lives of all children and young people should be free from poverty, abuse and discrimination. We believe in the abused, the vulnerable, the forgotten and the neglected. We will support them, stand up for them and bring out the best in each and every child. Our purpose is to help the most vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil their potential.
We do this directly through our services, and through influencing the system around them. We support children, young people and families without judgement whilst standing up for them and lobbying Governments, commissioners and policy makers to put their needs

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.

Making A Difference

Booted and Rooted Ltd is in the business of changing and shaping lives through innovation, enterprise, and poetry.

Based at the Greenman, Loughborough Junction, the work that we are doing is aimed at providing a holistic approach to solving some of our society’s biggest challenges.

We work with people from all backgrounds and champion diversity, inclusion, and well-being and aim to create a place where everyone feels valued and has a sense of belonging, helping to keep the public safe. Giving people the chance to turn their lives around.

We undertake the full range of work with offenders before and after sentences. This will include assessment, sentence implementation, offender management, and producing reports. We provide case management support to a full range of offenders utilizing service procedures and practice directions that underpin professional judgment

Brainkind (formerly The Disabilities Trust & BIRT) is the UK’s leading charity helping people thrive after a brain injury. We provide innovative rehabilitation and ongoing support to ensure life after brain injury can be a life well lived. With over 40 years of experience and expertise in brain injury and neurorehabilitation, we understand how a brain injury can challenge every aspect of life. At Brainkind, we are committed to providing person-centered, compassionate care. Our multi-disciplinary teams deliver the very best specialist neurological care and rehabilitation. Led by clinical psychiatrists and neuropsychologists, our team includes occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses, speech & language therapists, social workers, therapy assistants, and rehabilitation support workers.

Bringing Hope supports individuals and families, particularly those affected by high risk crime-led lifestyles, to lead crime free lives. We seek to promote a second chance for those who have been through the Criminal Justice System, with the aim of reducing reoffending rates and sustaining their decision to stop committing crimes.

C2C Social Action covers Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes which provides person centred support to offenders, helping them turn away from crime. Specialising in community work, we provide this service to people regardless of faith, or none, and regardless of their crimes, age, ethnic or cultural background, gender, sexuality or disability.

We have a number of projects providing specific services, with staff and volunteers working together in all projects including:

Dedicated Women's Centre in Northampton and Kettering and a new one about to open in Milton Keynes.
Community Support workers, engaging service user across the county for MHTR and RAR
Debt mentoring with CMA
ETE services
Wellbeing courses and services
C2C Grows - our allotment project
C2C Sews - our craft based sewing project
Walk & Talk
3 houses offering male accommodation for high risk offenders
Language courses for ESOL

The CLA works with all care leavers over the age of 16. We are guided by the views of our membership and thus hav0a wide range of areas of interest and activity. However, our work can be grouped into five main areas:

•User Led Support - A Network Project, group support, social networking site and virtual mechanisms to help people connect.
•Projects - Areas of work with specific outcomes – young people, access to records, speaking out, media.
•Training and Assessment - We work with a wide range of organisations to improve service delivery to care leavers through training and quality assessment.
•Advice, information and signposting - Focus on informing care leavers about their rights through signposting to additional support services and developing our guides and fact sheets while providing some individual casework.
•Research, Policy and Campaigns - We conduct, collate and promote research about care leavers

Catch22 is a social business, a not for profit business with a social mission. For over 200 years we have designed and delivered services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities.

Our 1600 colleagues work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting 44,000 individuals from cradle to career. Today we deliver alternative education, apprenticeships and employability programmes, justice and rehabilitation services (in prisons and in the community), gangs intervention work, emotional wellbeing and substance misuse, and children’s social care programmes.

The charity Changes provides healthcare in the community, including supported housing, for people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, including ex-offenders. The award-winning Community Interest Company, Changes UK, provides the recovery community with the skills and experience required, through a range of social enterprises at Recovery Central, to achieve independence. This dual model helps people in Abstinence-Based Recovery to re-build their lives through volunteering, training and employment, within a therapeutic framework. We challenge the stigma of addiction and the prejudice towards the recovery community. Abstinence-Based Recovery is not just about stopping negative behaviour, it is also about making a positive contribution and engaging with society. At Recovery Central, we demonstrate that, with the right support, people do recover and can be an asset to society, not a burden.

Circles UK seeks greater public protection by working towards a substantial reduction in sexual offending, providing a range of services to local Circles of Support and Accountability providers. Further, it aims to develop greater public understanding of community approaches to public protection.

We aim to provide the advice people need for the problems they face and improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives.

We provide free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. We value diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.