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Abianda works with gang-affected young women aged 10-24 in London and delivers training to professionals nationally. Our mission is to bring about a culture shift in the way services are delivered to gang-affected young women, so they feel safe to access help; to ensure they are no longer a hidden group in our communities; and they are free from harm and abuse. We pursue social impact through our services, training, and providing paid employment opportunities for gang-affected young women so that they can influence the future delivery of services.

Our unique model of practice addresses the barriers that stop young women seeking help. By asking young women the right questions and offering an equal, transparent relationship we help them discover their own resilience and competence and to develop the power to change their situation. Our former service users co-facilitate all our training, and so shape the way professionals understand GAYW and work with them.

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.

Action Acton is a regeneration charity in West London, placing hard-to-reach disadvantaged individuals into employment, training or education. Action Acton specialises in working with offenders and ex-offenders in partnership with Criminal Justice agencies. We are an 'end to end' subcontractor for the Work Programme and have a long track record of successfully delivering payment by results contracts.
We have 7 local offices in Acton Vale, South Acton Estate, Acton and Hounslow.

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.

The AIM Partnership is a cross sector collection of private, public and voluntary sector organisations working across the West Midlands region undertaking action research for moving offenders into employment. The partnership also has multiple European partners based in Sweden, Sardinia, Portugal and Romania. The partnership is working towards being established as either a charity or social enterprise in 2013 to continue its pioneering work with those at risk of offending into the labour market.

Alana House, one of PACT’s community projects, is a women’s centre based in Reading with outreach services in Berkshire. Established in 2010, Alana House takes a "one stop shop" approach and provides trauma informed, holistic support for women around the 9 pathways to reducing offending through group work, 1-2-1 support, drop in sessions and targeted partnership work. It aims to prevent women from entering the criminal justice system, break the cycle of offending and improve the outcomes for the women, their families and the wider community.

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.

Apex Trust provides information, advice and guidance to offenders/ex-offenders, supporting them into employment, training, education and voluntary work by assisting them in breaking down the barriers they face when moving forward with a conviction. Based in St Helens with outreach across the Liverpool City Region, ACT 4 Women is a peer support project. Beneficiaries are unemployed women ex-offenders. Former/current service users play a central role in its delivery & development. We offer Level 2 Award in Peer Mentoring, our accredited training programme, which involves opportunities to engage within communities and develop a positive sense of self, based on helping others. One of the key by-products of our work is to reduce re-offending and to achieve better integration of our clients into society. Our service is not time limited and is delivered at a pace to suit the individual to enable them to achieve their goals.

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

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.

Back on Track is a Manchester charity that enables disadvantaged adults to make lasting, positive changes in their lives. We work with people who are going through a process of recovery or rehabilitation, having been through problems with offending, alcohol or drugs, homelessness or mental health.

We have a busy and welcoming learning centre in central Manchester where we offer a range of support and activities including training courses, one to one guidance and work experience. Our courses have a strong focus on health and wellbeing and arts and cultural activities as well as covering functional skills.

Our progression team work closely with a number of national and local employers to provide support with employability. We also have a very successful catering social enterprise which allows us to offer work placements and employment.

With our project Inside and Out we run a lifeskills course in HMP Manchester followed by through the gate support on release.

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.

Beyond the Gate is a magazine published by ex-offenders for people entering and leaving custody. The point of the magazine is to encapsulate information that people in those situations need, and to sign-post them in the right direction to get any help they need. As well as features by these support groups and organisations, the magazine will also feature stories from people who have successfully broken their own offending cycles and are now leading crime-free lives.

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.

Birth Companions is a unique charity which supports women experiencing severe disadvantage during pregnancy, birth and early parenting. We are the UK’s leading organisation working in this area, with widely acknowledged expertise in the needs of pregnant women and new mothers facing severe disadvantage both in prison and the community.

The women we support face a range of issues and challenges including mental health problems, substance misuse, a history of domestic and sexual violence, trafficking, experience of detention and human rights violations overseas. They are particularly vulnerable during their pregnancies due to the effects of poor health, poverty, lack of support from family and friends as well as isolation.
Our overall aim is to empower women and help them to give their babies best possible start in life.

We also seek to raise awareness and to influence changes in policy and practice to improve conditions for the women we work with.