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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.

Humbercare was established to work with the Humberside Probation Trust. We work to: educate, rehabilitate and promote the mental and moral improvement of offenders, or any other persons in need and the rehabilitation of persons discharged from penal institutions. Humbercare received charitable status during 1989 and became a company limited by guarantee in October of that year. Humbercare came from a desire to be able to offer additional help and assistance to offenders and those at risk to reduce the risk of re-offending through local projects.

Humbercare is managed by a Chief Executive Officer and a voluntary Management Committee. Humbercare is an enabling organisation dedicated to providing quality and innovative services to adults and young people. It is Humbercare's belief that all people should have the opportunity to realise their full potential, improve skills, optimise their life chances and become responsible members of the community.

LAT provides resettlement and rehabilitation support for individuals involved at all stages of the criminal justice system from the point of arrest; as well as for their families and dependants.

The charity delivers ETE, housing, family support and resettlement interventions both in prisons and in the community. Specific interventions are offered for women. LAT works with all offence types, and has particular specialism in resettlement of men convicted of sexual offences.

LAT delivers a number of national programmes including Liaison and Diversion and CFO3, as well as local innovations such as Young Oasis which helps children living with a parent or guardian with a drug or alcohol addiction. LAT also introduced the 'departure lounge' concept to prison, starting UK's first one at HMP Lincoln in 2015. Detainees at IRC are also supported

Volunteers are a key aspect of support, and individuals including peers, are recruited and trained for various volunteering and mentoring roles.

The Margaret Carey Foundation helps offenders to help others, whereby offenders learn new skills and pay something back to society. Its activities include recycling bikes and wheelchairs in prison workshops for the developing world, and helping the environment and people in need. Offenders gain qualifications to help them be more ready for employment. We are also working to set up new workshops in prisons and in the community for offenders on licence and ex offenders. We also work with young people both in young offender institutions and those at risk of entering the criminal justice system within the community

We make it possible for volunteers in the community to write letters to prisoners, and to receive letters in return, and to do so in safety.

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.

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.