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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.

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.

AVP helps people to deal with conflict and violence, and build better relationships with others. In Britain, this is achieved through the provision of workshops in prisons and in the wider community, and a distance learning programme, ‘Facing Up to Conflict’, available free of charge to all prisoners. The organisation's priority groups are offenders and ex-offenders, people affected by domestic violence, and those whose mental health has been affected by violence.

Aspire is a social enterprise that provides work skills training and employment opportunities for marginalised workers, e.g. the unemployed, the homeless, recovering addicts and ex-offenders. We collaborate with other organisations, e.g. prisons, probation, housing associations, Job Centres etc., to identify the individuals whom we are most able to help.

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.

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.

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.

The Bridge Programme provides mentoring, support workers and activities to people with mental health, homelessness, domestic abuse, drugs, alcohol, and other offending issues.

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 is a Northamptonshire wide Christian charity which provides holistic, 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 a new "pop up" centre in Kettering
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
4 houses offering same sex accommodation
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

CFEO aims to break the cycle of re-offending by connecting individuals with a supportive church community on release from prison and meeting both practical and spiritual needs. A mentor, supported by a team of 3-5 people, comes alongside the individual to help tackle housing, debt, employment and other challenges either through knowledge held within the team or engaging with relevant agencies. CFEO is a ministry of Holy Trinity Brompton.

Chance for Change is committed to enabling young adults to take responsibility for their future direction. We create opportunities that enable them to begin a journey of personal development in wilderness environments to broaden their horizons, realise their talents and acquire new skills which will give them the potential to take their place as the community leaders of the future. We put the focus on strengths not weaknesses; on assets not deficits and invest in young talent. As well as working in the UK, we also deliver programmes for marginalised communities in Nepal and Malawi.

Choice for Change provides an unplanned-pregnancy advisory service and counselling support for pregnancy and child loss including child separation support. This service is available currently in two women's prisons, HMP Bronzefield and HMP Downview. The organisation also provides the 'I AM Project', a relationships and sexual health education course for offenders, ex-offenders and other vulnerable groups. We work closely with other psychological therapies within the prisons and other voluntary and statutory agencies.

Choices Islington normally delivers a counselling project at female prisons; Choice for Change supports women with pregnancy and child loss or child separation concerns, (inlcuding unplanned pregnancy support). During Covid-19 crisis, we have switched our services to providing remote counselling for ex-offenders in the community looking for therapy support around family issues especially child separation and general adjustment to life post-release during the Covid-19 crisis.
The mother charity, Choices Islington, is still delivering its Befriending Project including deliveries of baby clothing and equipment to local families, one to one befriending support remotely and a remote attachment-based parenting support programme. More info at www.choicesislington.org

Chrysalis was formed originally in 2003 to provide Specialist Structured Support, Detoxification, Harm Reduction & Treatment Services as well as Relapse Management Services that had been specifically designed to address Dependency, Associative Mental Health Issues and to attend to the Resultant Chaotic & Repeat Homelessness experienced by sufferers as a result. All services are delivered within our Good Quality Community Based Supported Accommodation Projects. Since opening our services have grown, evolved, changed and adapted to meet the challenges unique to our sector and to respond and adapt more effectively to the needs of our service users.
Chrysalis now offers a number of Specialist Support Programmes delivered within a framework of Good Quality Supported Accommodation.
Chrysalis is a Non-Profit Private Registered Provider of Social Housing Registered Number 4751 and a member of the Housing Ombudsman and the National Housing Federation.

Advice and information on any issue that is free, confidential, impartial and non-judgemental. Specialising in debt but also covering benefits, employment, housing and consumer issues.

The Government is committed to a greater role for the third sector organisations in delivering public services. This means that if Third Sector organisations are to provide sustainable services over a period of time, they must ensure their commercial processes are efficient and effective. This is generally a difficult area as it requires commercial skills that many third sector organisations do not have.
Clarent can help third sector organisations meet these challenges, by using their commercial management expertise to undertake as much or as little of their commercial requirements as they need. We recognise that third sector organisations have limited funding and as part of our Corporate Social Responsibility programme, we offer substantial discounts to our normal prices for qualifying organisations, enabling them to be competitive and fulfil the efficiencies required by the Government

Clean Slate creates and supports paid work opportunities for long-term unemployed people facing barriers to employment. Our process includes a 2 day job preparation, training and personal development course, which encourages confidence building and action planning. We have walk-in centres in the West of England and South London where peer advocates (long-term unemployed people) are employed as Work Champions, delivering support, advice and guidance to other jobseekers. Clean Slate also directly employs people through its enterprises: a distribution and packing service (Clean Slate Distribution) and a handyperson business (The HandyHelp Company).

People can change their own lives, take a positive approach to the challenges they’re facing and come up with their own solutions. Coaching Inside and Out’s coaches help clients do that using the same approach as top leaders and performers.

The charity challenges and supports men, women and children in prison and the community through coaching.

CIAO’s coaches ask questions to support and challenge clients’ to understand themselves better, so they can find their own answers and help both themselves and others. By building up people’s inner resources they can find and make the most of external resources after coaching ends.

CIAO has a flexible commissioner and client-led model tailored to each service, not an off-the-shelf programme. Group sessions and drop in services are all possibilities, as well as individual coaching.