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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.

We provide training, workshops, one to one and keynote speeches to empower individuals and families. We use our designed CHOICE program that works on supporting with the following areas:
Confidence, Health (mental health), Organisation, Identity, Communication and Empowerment.

We use NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Life Coaching and Mindfulness to equip our programme participants with the necessary tools and techniques that will enable them to turn their life around and thrive.

We can provide special services to Arab, Kurds and Afghani/Iranian communities in their language if they struggle with language barriers.

We use our booklets and teaching materials to enhance the learning process.

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.

The African Cultural Association is a community learning organisation and registered charity that has been supporting unemployed vulnerable and disadvantaged people since its inception in 1995.

We seek to promote awareness of different cultures in multicultural Britain and bring different communities closer to each other. We offer both training and advice services, with the latter covering areas such as housing, immigration, health, employment, legal services, education, racial harassment and debt management.

Our training is centred on the skills needed for garment construction/manufacture (Fashion, Dressmaking, Pattern cutting & Craft for beginners, Intermediate and Advance, to improve their garment construction skills to enable them to set up their own business in Dressmaking and Fashion). Our training is currently delivered from our premises in Hendon, NW4 4JX, but our resources are portable, allowing us the ability to deliver from community venues anywhere in London.

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.

The services Art in Me CIC offers to vulnerable young adults/care leavers, some with mental or physical health differences aim to make positive differences and give a sense of well being through the co-facilitation of home decor and DIY improvements. By using creative and visual art skills and techniques we impart functional and practical life skills, enhancing knowledge and self-confidence whilst promoting a sense of pride and ownership to projects.

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.

Our award-winning approach, BBM, helps people develop their soft skills (e.g. communication, self-motivation, time-management, team-working), improving employability and wellbeing. BBM produces quantitative evidence of the changes that are made.
We support organisations through our consultancy, using BBM Diagnostic to identify and remove barriers in systems and processes that stop organisations making the most of their people and doing their best work.

Belong aims to put the needs of victims and perpetrators of crime at the heart of all that we do. Our vision is of a world where there is hope, rehabilitation and recovery for victims and perpetrators of crime. Providing long term, individualised responses to conflict and crime is core to our mission.

Our services include mentoring, art therapy and restorative justice interventions. We work with children, young people and adults in custodial and community settings, with a specific focus on people who are hard to engage. We also deliver successful restorative justice and mediation training to professionals in the criminal justice sector.

Beyond Recovery provides a cost-effective, evidence-based intervention enabling people in prison to uncover their innate mental well-being and improve their mental health and behaviour in prison. This enables them to have a stronger sense of purpose and to live a more satisfying and law-abiding life on release. We are committed to growth and impact through empowering prisoners to help themselves and each other through our Apprentice programs and Academy.

Post COVID-19 we have developed a Remote Service including Self-Study material, guided DVD’s and facilitator guided one-to-ones for prison residents. Online mentoring and guidance for our returning residents and their families in the community. And a community voluntary organisation led by people with lived experience.

Impact is achieved through personal realisation, or insight. Outcomes include significant increase in mental wellbeing, purpose in life and pro-social behaviour, and decrease in violence.

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.

Using drama-based activities, Blank Cheque works with underrepresented and marginalised people to develop life skills, connect with communities, be creative, make art, and have fun.

Blueprint: Film Foundation is a company limited by guarantee that delivers film and multimedia projects to community groups and education establishments across Lincolnshire, Yorkshire & The Humber and the East Midlands. Since forming in 2007, the foundation has been awarded small but frequent grants that have enabled us to deliver community orientated projects and forge working relationships with a range of councils and associations such as Lincoln Council, Abbey Access Training and Education & Youth Services. We have also received support from a variety of funders including Heritage Lottery, European Social Fund and First Light.

Making A Difference

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

Based at the Greenman, Loughborough Junction, the work that he is doing is aimed at providing a holistic approach to solving some of our society’s biggest challenges. We make sure our partners are empowered by creating opportunities for individuals and communities.

Recently a 3 year business was developed and approved by Ixion, who's vision is to: “Transform people’s lives through Skills, Employment, Enterprise and Innovation, for growth”

We collect books from publishers, libraries, shops and individuals, sort and stamp them and redistribute them free of charge to organizations working with homeless people, prisons, offenders and ex-offenders, womens refuges, refugees,asylum applicants and others with limited funds. We want to see more Borderline Books groups in other locations - it is an excellent project for ex-offenders to run. We can offer an 'office in a box', plus initial supply of books and a wealth of experience. The project is very flexible and could be combined with literacy classes or writing groups as well as giving useful job-training skills. We sometimes have to turn down book donations as we don't have funds to bring them up to Gateshead so local editions would be great.

We are particularly interested in working with more prisons. Do get in contact.
We are also providing free books to custody suites in the North East. Enquiries welcome.

We are a project of the Kittiwake Trust charity number 1165318

We provide volunteer mentors for people at risk of offending, including ex-prisoners, people on community sentences, homeless people and people with drug and alcohol problems.

We recruit train and support volunteer mentors who will meet with people for 16 weeks to help them to achieve their goals, which might be related to housing, training, benefits or anything else.

We welcome self-referrals or referrals from Criminal justice agencies.

'Our mission is to provide individuals immediate well-being support and practical guidance should they find themselves on the wrong side of the law for the first time. Through education initiatives we aim to discourage young people from crime by empowering them to explore, understand, challenge and change attitudes that may lead to anti-social or serious criminal activity. Through training and employment enterprises we aid ex-offenders in re-engaging with society, thus transforming lives and reducing public spending'.

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.

Chrysalis act as a recruitment agency who provide employment opportunities for ex offenders and prisoners due for release with the long term aim of helping to break the cycle of re offending.
Identifying the areas of shortages within certain skills sets and offering the relevant training to ex-offenders/prisoners will not only enhance employability skills and increase employment opportunities for ex offenders, it will bolster the UK's skilled workforce ensuring we are open for business and capable of meeting the demand.

Chrysalis Partnership actively promote and encourage other employers to employ ex offenders and to challenge the misconceptions of their work ethic!

We are committed to reduce re-offending and make society safer by placing people with criminal convictions into meaningful, mentored and sustainable employment. We are a specialist employment agency for ex-offenders across Tees Valley and North Yorkshire region.
We work with employers to help reduce the risk of re-offending and make our community a safer place. Specifically working within the construction, customer service, hospitality, retail and manufacturing sectors.
We cover everything from sourcing staff, the initial screening process and providing any training certificates that may be required. Once our candidate is in employment then we mentor them outside of work throughout their first 6 months helping them with any other specific areas in life.