Partnership Finder

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.

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.

Develop was established in 1996, as a company limited by guarantee and a not for profit organisation. The organisation provides a quality innovative service to employers, schools, colleges, communities and volunteers who need help, support, information, advice and guidance.

Our mission is to bridge the gap between individuals, learning organisations and businesses to enhance employability skills and develop potential. We aim to offer access of opportunity to all those individuals we work with and support them to achieve their goals. Develop are currently funded via the National Careers Service, Careers Inspiration in Custody contract to deliver a range of activities in custody. This includes providing employer-led events for HMP Leicester, Bedford and Woodhill and ex offender alumni sessions in prisons across the East Midlands and Central Eastern Region.In addition we also provide Study Programme and Adult provision to all, including ex-offenders

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.

Hetty’s started life as self help group set up by two mothers of heroin addicts in 1996. Since then the organisation has grown to deliver nationally recognised services. Hetty’s has over 13 years of expertise and specialism delivering preventative family intervention workshops with the criminal justice system to offenders engaging with drug/alcohol treatment workers. In partnership with local adult and young offenders prisons Hetty's deliver monthly education and awareness sessions around the impact a prisoner’s drug or alcohol use has had on their family members.
The session has a particular focus on the acceptance of personal responsibility and how this can have a positive impact on repairing relationships that have broken down due to lack of communication and loss of trust. Hetty’s also deliver a 3 week course in partnership with Probation (PRR) and encourage family members to attend session 3 for group family mediation.
Ofenders can refer their family to Hetty's for support.

developmentplus is a community development charity based in Lincoln, It delivers a small number of 1-1 coaching and mentoring programmes including Bridging the Gap (BTG). BTG is a reducing re-offending project which supports men and women on release from prison into the Lincoln area providing an intensive mentoring service that covers all 9 pathways. It supports individuals with housing issues, benefit advise, relationship support, drug and alcohol support as well as many other areas. We address all issues at the same time and support individuals for as long as they need.

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.

We work to organise a network of pastoral support for Muslim Chaplains and staff; to prepare, produce and recommend teaching materials and accredited courses; to provide mentoring and job shadowing services for Muslim Chaplains; and to engage the communities for the resettlement of prisoners and help to reduce reoffending. We also raise funds in order to pursue the MCA's activities.

We would like to set up a number of small businesses, that will train and employ offenders on a permanent basis. Once a position has been taken up, we would then put in to place support packages that would help them to continue on their rehabilitative path. These packages would not be just for them but for the whole family. These businesses will include, a coffin company, http://www.theethicalcc.com/, a cafe/restaurant, a joinery workshop, a building and painting and decorating company and a small horticultural centre that will also provide a gardening service to the local area. We will also establish a training team that will provide “in custody” and on-line training to individuals, this training would include anger management training as well as training for the Personal Trackside license, which would enable the individual to work on the railways. This training team will work in partnership with support workers to ensure each individual’s needs are met prior to and upon release.

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.

Ormiston Families is a charity supporting children, young people and their families across the East of England, including children and families affected by imprisonment. We work in 11 of the region's prisons and young-offender institutions, offering community support for children and young people in Bedfordshire and Essex.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Established in 2000, Synergy Theatre Project works with prisoners, ex-prisoners and young people at risk, towards rehabilitation, through theatre and related activities, while placing the wider issues surrounding criminal justice in the public arena.