Partnership Finder

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.

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.

Anglia Care Trust (ACT) is a charity dedicated to supporting vulnerable people, having worked with offenders, ex-offenders and their families for over 40 years. There are 3 core themes to our work: Helping people to keep a roof over their heads; Helping people to be heard; Helping people to feel safe.

In achieving this, we deliver a range of interconnected support services, inclusive of: Intensive Support; Floating Support; Advice; Guidance; Advocacy; Mediation; Housing; Alcohol Recovery; and Domestic Abuse Services.

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.

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.

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.

BF Adventure, established in 1989, has developed a well-equipped and fully accessible 60-acre activity centre (“Goodygrane”) with four flooded granite quarries set in woods and heathland on the rural outskirts of Penryn. From this central location the charity, also constituted as a limited company, delivers programmes to challenge and inspire around 4,000 people throughout Cornwall each year.

Its experienced and highly motivated team of instructors and volunteers use these exciting outdoor resources to support children and adults who experience multiple disadvantage including difficulties which stem from physical, mental, behavioural and/or learning difficulties. Through a vast range of activities ranging from archery, abseiling and bushcraft to watersports and the zipwire, the team supports and monitors participants in building confidence and self-esteem, developing life skills - with accreditations as appropriate – to promote engagement and positive change.

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.

BLAST Foundation is a Christian "Through The Gate" Resettlement organisation, working with prisoners and ex-offenders and their families of all faiths and no faiths. BLAST aim to be provider of choice, for prisons and probation trusts wishing to reduce recidivism and improve resettlement for prison inmates who want to transform their lives and break their cycle of re-offending. BLAST achieves this through our transformation, employability & business programmes delivered in prison. These programmes combine and are supported by BLASTs mentor and resettlement services, to support ex-offenders and their families in the difficult task of re-integrating in society

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

Restorative Justice for victims living in London
Offender-initiated referrals accepted
All crime types

Mediation
- Workplace
- Family
- Community
- Neighbour
- Youth

Caritas Care's ACE (Assisted Community Engagement) Project provides an assisted seamless transition from custody to community and reduces the risk of reoffending by ensuring that essential needs are met without it being necessary to revert to a life of crime. Support is provided by volunteers and paid staff to address their needs, as identified by NOMS.

Our organisation is a Consortia of 10 local partner organisations in Greater Manchester and Cheshire who have come together as an independent legally constituted community Interest Company supported by NOMS Technical Assistance and who are able to offer end to end services to customers incorporating individual specialisms that offer support and solutions to barriers to progression.
The Consortia members range in size from a sole trader to a National Charity and represent the public, private and VCSE sectors.
The objective for change2progress is to carry out activities which benefit the community and in particular (without limitation) to develop and provide a range of progression routeways into active citizenship (including employment) for offenders and other marginalised individuals. The company’s activities will provide benefit to marginalised individuals and their families, including NEET’s offenders, ex-offenders and those at risk of offending in the North of England.

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.

Cheshire West Citizens Advice is the largest independent advice service in Cheshire and one of the largest Third Sector advice agencies in the North West. It is the second busiest CAB in the North West and the seventh busiest in England and Wales.
Cheshire West Citizens Advice provides free, independent, impartial, confidential advice and is committed to promoting equality and the redress of inequality. On average we deal with over 14,000 unique enquiries/issues annually including: debt, finance, fuel poverty, income maximisation, housing, homelessness, employment, consumer, legal, family law, relationships, immigration and welfare benefits.

Cohort 4 is a not for profit social enterprise supporting women survivors in the community of North Warwickshire and Tamworth. Our projects are designed by, planned and delivered by women survivors with a self supporting function of peer mentoring, coaching and motivating women to develop their confidence, skills and self esteem on surviving abuse.

All our projects are designed by our women, who know what they need to improve their lives. Jewellery making, craft and cooking, training, skills and opportunities. We have a bespoke peer mentoring for women training package and survivors are encouraged to train to become peer mentors to other women, thereby increasing the scope to reach out to more women.

Many of our Cohort 4 Women join us who have been affected by the criminal justice system, those with disabilities,including mental health issues, those with limited finances and those who just feel isolated and want the company and positive friendship of other women.