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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.

Criminon UK is a registered charity delivering distance learning life skills courses in many UK prisons. We are members of LASER Learning Awards (formerly the Open College Network South East Region), and have four courses accredited. Our accredited course "Understanding and Overcoming Addiction", aligns with learning outcomes of the NOCN National Qualification Unit's 'Introduction to Drug Awareness', Level 1. Our other accredited courses deal with literacy at Entry Level 2 and Level 1 and a simple guide to better living and self-respect at Entry Level 2. Further life skills courses we offer deal with Parenting, Communication and Personal Integrity. We also offer a Mentor Course which gives the offender the skills to help others with their literacy and allows them to give something back, helping them achieve greater confidence and self-respect.

Geese Theatre Company is a team of professional theatre practitioners who present interactive drama and facilitate workshops, staff training and consultation in prisons, secure mental health settings, young offender institutions, and in the community with probation services, youth offending teams and related agencies. A registered charity based in Birmingham, Geese works throughout the UK and overseas and has gained an international reputation for innovative work with vulnerable and socially excluded groups, becoming widely acknowledged as one of the key organisations championing the role of arts in the criminal justice system and wider social welfare arena. Our work provides solutions to a range of criminogenic issues, primarily focussing on attitudes, thinking and behaviour and addressing themes such as domestic abuse, sexual offending, violence, resettlement, substance misuse and offending, self-efficacy, and employability.

Good Vibrations runs gamelan (Indonesian bronze percussion) courses, in prisons and secure hospitals and with offenders and ex-offenders in the community, helping people develop crucial life- and work-skills such as communication, teamworking, creative thinking and concentration. Participants are then also more motivated to engage in other constructive activities.

Groundwork Greater Manchester helps people and organisations make changes in order to create better neighbourhoods, to build skills and job prospects, and to live and work in a greener way. We’re a registered charity with over 30 years of experience working with partners to deliver successful projects in the local area.

We know that the important issues are all connected – our work covers 'environmental issues’, 'regeneration', ‘youth and community work’, ‘business support’, 'employment' and ‘training’. Our joined up approach means we create projects and services that benefit people, the environment and the wider society.

Every year Groundwork delivers over £1 million worth of accredited training. If you're looking to get back into work, want to broaden your options, or just try something new, get in touch!

Khulisa delivers unique and powerful behaviour-change intervention programmes addressing violence and the crime cycle. Khulisa starts the process of rehabilitation through the innovative use of therapeutic methods and creative, participant-led techniques. The language and theory of violence are used to draw a link between violence/abuse/conflict and offending behaviour, and develop the notion that no crime is victimless. Khulisa also runs Milestones, an innovative through-the-gate mentoring programme for young men leaving custody.

No Offence! facilitates open access to and exchange of crime and justice information, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

No Offence! is a social enterprise, community interest company, not driven by private profit.

Our innovative and engaging approach facilitates the sharing of this information by instigating, supporting and encouraging communication and debate, which promotes wider understanding of complex criminal justice issues across society. By challenging barriers to positive change and influencing future policy, our objective is simple: to make a difference.

We have created a criminal justice information exchange service, which has become a centre for excellence, for the significant benefit of all who engage within the criminal justice sector.

Prison Fellowship aims to support prisoners by coming alongside them and supporting them through practical programmes and prayer.

We seek to help, support and develop a Christian ministry to prisoners through Sycamore Tree, our victim awareness programme; Angel Tree, where we support prisoner's children at Christmas; Letter Writing and other practical support through chaplaincy.

We do this through our network of volunteer members, and currently have over 1,800 members across England and Wales.

The PPT supports prisoners, ex-prisoners and prison staff in their spiritual lives through meditation, yoga, silence and the breath. We recommend breath-focussed stretches and meditation sensitively tailored to students' needs. To this end, we send free books and a CD to prisoners so they can start a practice in their cell, we have a team of specially trained volunteer letter writers who correspond with prisoners who want support in their practice; we offer taster workshops so prisons can judge if they want to include weekly yoga classes as part of their regimes; and we train qualified yoga teachers for the specific challenges of working in prison.

There are currently 143 weekly yoga and meditation classes in 75 institutions across the UK and Ireland. Most of these are prisons, though we also work in approved premises, IRCs and secure hospitals. 32 of these classes are for prison officers and staff.

We maintain contact with over 5,766 prisoners in 223 institutions.

The Prisoners' Advice Service provides free legal advice and representation to adult prisoners in England and Wales regarding their rights, and regardless of the individual prisoners' means. PAS aims to educate and empower prisoners regarding the law and their legal and human rights.

REACH INSIDE is a charity that has been set up to help friends and family members of prisoners to REACH INSIDE and communicate easily with their loved ones.
Our POST–2–PRISON project allows anyone with online access to send a photo and a message to any UK prisoner completely free of charge.
All you need to do is visit our website (its mobile friendly too) and send your message, we will then print it and post it directly into prison.

Restorative Solutions is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) committed to enabling the use of innovative restorative approaches as a practical and cost-effective intervention for reducing harm or conflict.
We introduce restorative practices to organisations, volunteers and front line workers who are looking for a proven and worthwhile alternative to existing conventional approaches to reducing conflict, disputes, anti-social behaviour, bullying, crime and re-offending. We deliver bespoke Restorative Justice services to organisations.

Restorative Thinking is a Social Enterprise. We work with Prison and Probation Services, PCCs and Youth Offending Services to implement and develop restorative ways of working. Our input ranges from restorative training and whole organisational culture change to delivery of our evidence-based restorative intervention programmes.

During COVID 19, we are looking for partners to develop a digital learning platform for our evidence-based restorative and relational intervention programmes.

RT is a restorative organisation, proud recipients of the RSQM and the TPQM.

Recent projects include:

1) HMPPS funded pilot to rigorously test restorative practice as a means of fostering inclusive residential environments in Approved Premises (Midlands, NE Divisions)
2) County wide delivery of restorative domestic abuse perpetrator programme (Cumbria PCC), independent evaluation available on request.

We provide direct support services within the community for ex-offenders, older people and people in debt. We work to support ex-offenders in the resettlement process, which includes offering supported housing and help with personal and practical development, with the aim of reducing the risk of reoffending.

We have a referral process and accept referrals from various statutory providers, voluntary sector providers and in person. All new referrals complete a referral form and risk assessment before being offered accommodation.


All clients take part in a support planning process. Each client has a support worker and regular reviews of the support plan take place. We use the outcome star to work with clients to help them to identify the various actions needed to address their journey to independent living away from offending.

All clients are able to access our training, volunteer mentoring scheme, opportunities for volunteering and our debt advice service.

Samaritans provides confidential emotional support to prisoners, either by telephone or face-to-face. The organisation also selects, trains and supports prisoners, known as Listeners, to offer confidential, emotional support to their fellow-inmates.

Shannon Trust runs the Shannon Trust Reading Plan, an award-winning peer mentoring programme which encourages and supports prisoners who can read to give one-to-one tuition to help non-reading prisoners learn to read.

Shelter offer free, confidential and independent advice and information to people with housing related problems. This includes services sub-contracted by five Community Rehabilitation Companies in Cumbria & Lancashire, Cheshire & Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Northumbria and Humberside, Lincolnshire & North Yorkshire. Shelter deliver accommodation and finance, benefits and debt interventions to support people subject to probation supervision to resettle in their communities.

Step Together’s Ex-Offender Programme aims to reduce the number of ex-offenders in target areas who re-offend on leaving prison. We provide 1:1 support and match individuals with a cause and a specific voluntary role with which they identify, acting as a catalyst for change - improving personal skills, well-being and employability, and enabling them to be self-supporting and play a more active and engaged part in society on release.

Working on both sides of the prison gate, to ensure seamless progression from prison to community, the programme enables people who would otherwise be excluded from society to participate in positive and purposeful diversionary activity, improving integration, building a sense of belonging and involvement, a resilience to turn their back on the past, and opening significant opportunities for the future. The programme works with all offenders and ages, regardless of the offence committed.

Street Soccer Academy is a professional service provider that specialises in the rehabilitation and reintegration of vulnerable and ‘at-risk’ individuals into communities. We work on behalf of some of the nation’s hardest to reach groups within our communities. Our custody to community model is in operation in HMP Forest Bank and has proven to be very successful over the three-year period we have operated in partnership with them. Street Soccer Academy offers two main streams of service delivery – a football based coach education programme and health and fitness programme. Our community based regional centres provide the opportunity to continue engaging with the participants once released and to develop their roles in society. With 80 men a year having completed our internal programmes, more than 90% choose to engage with us in community and we have an associated reoffending rate of just 8%.

We are offering support to those struggling with social isolation and disengagement. These individuals are recently released from prison and/or have a history of addictions, poor health and mental health issues. We are able to support these individuals with mental health support, well being, coping strategies and resilience building. We look to work with these individuals via online support, due to Covid-19 restrictions and some possible license conditions due to previous offences. We offer safe spaces to discuss and explore possible barriers to effectively building a positive and settlement into community life.