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3 Pillars Project works within the criminal justice system, using a combination of teamwork and rugby coaching courses as a way of engaging young people to deliver positive role-modelling and mentorship. We target high-risk young people, including under-18s, to tackle violence in prisons and gang-related behaviour through positive intervention. We also provide emotional support and guidance during each course through group discussion sessions and one-to-one mentoring relationships directed towards rehabilitation and reintegration on release from prison. We provide long-term support to all course participants, including referrals to appropriate partner organisations and/or encouraging future participation in subsequent courses as assistant coaches and peer mentors.

We provide training, workshops, one to one and keynote speeches to empower individuals and families. We use our designed CHOICE program that works on supporting with the following areas:
Confidence, Health (mental health), Organisation, Identity, Communication and Empowerment.

We use NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Life Coaching and Mindfulness to equip our programme participants with the necessary tools and techniques that will enable them to turn their life around and thrive.

We can provide special services to Arab, Kurds and Afghani/Iranian communities in their language if they struggle with language barriers.

We use our booklets and teaching materials to enhance the learning process.

Belong aims to put the needs of victims and perpetrators of crime at the heart of all that we do. Our vision is of a world where there is hope, rehabilitation and recovery for victims and perpetrators of crime. Providing long term, individualised responses to conflict and crime is core to our mission.

Our services include mentoring, art therapy and restorative justice interventions. We work with children, young people and adults in custodial and community settings, with a specific focus on people who are hard to engage. We also deliver successful restorative justice and mediation training to professionals in the criminal justice sector.

Making A Difference

Booted and Rooted Ltd, is in the business of changing and shaping lives through the innovation, enterprise and poetry.

Based at the Greenman, Loughborough Junction, the work that he is doing is aimed at providing a holistic approach to solving some of our society’s biggest challenges. We make sure our partners are empowered by creating opportunities for individuals and communities.

Recently a 3 year business was developed and approved by Ixion, who's vision is to: “Transform people’s lives through Skills, Employment, Enterprise and Innovation, for growth”

With training centres in 5 London prisons, one in HMP Leeds and one in the community in London, Bounce Back trains people in sought after construction industry skills. Offering an end to end solution from prison to employment their dedicated case managers engage with trainees 6 months prior to release to help them through their journey gaining skills and qualifications that can lead to employment on release either within their own painting and decorating social enterprise or with a number of construction industry partners with whom they work. Their aim is to change lives and break the cycle of crime by training people in custody for employment and a positive future.

Cardboard Citizens is a professional theatre company making Forum plays with and for the homeless or those at risk of homelessness. We run regular workshops and perform in hostels and prisons. Alongside these activities, we offer tailored information, advice and guidance with a focus on education, employment and training, but we also signpost to other agencies. We also have a youth theatre programme for 16- to 25-year-olds. You can refer to us at any time of year and also book us for free Forum Theatre performances in your prison.

We also provide The Art of Engagement training to organisations and staff, using tried and tested theatre-based techniques to enable staff to engage in a more meaningful way with their clients.

Change for Good is a resettlement charity based in London. We currently have mentoring programmes based in HMP Wandsworth and HMP Wormwood Scrubs that match guys with a trained volunteer who gets to know them in prison, meets them at the gate and supports them as they resettle back into society.

In the community we have our MAP (Members After Prison) project . MAP is a group that meets weekly. It is for men who want to stay out of prison and keep out. The group is run by the men themselves who become positive influences on each other provide mutual support. There is a monthly activity such as a visit to a museum, or a boat trip. The men take it in turns to cook healthy meals and the venue is located in central London.
The group aims to reduce isolation and to be a strong community for the men to belong to. The group is dynamic and the agenda is set by the men themselves. The only criteria is that you have spent time in custody and are serious about wan

CGL is a criminal justice, health and social care charity working with individuals, families and communities across England and Wales that are affected by drugs, alcohol, crime, homelessness, domestic abuse and anti-social behaviour. Our projects, delivered in communities and prisons, encourage and empower people to regain control of their lives and motivate them to tackle their problems. We also offer volunteering, peer mentoring and employment opportunities across England and Wales

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.

ENC's objectives are to help stop people from offending and reoffending; to support individuals and families to access Health, Social Care, Housing, Employment, Further Education, Welfare benefits. We support Disabled People, those with Long Term Conditions, mental health difficulties, Learning Disabilities. Additionally, we support children and their families in relation to social services, welfare and respite.. We also train individuals to be mentors or advocates in a voluntary role or paid employment so that they are able to support others.

Fine Cell Work trains and pays prisoners to do craftwork in their cells to encourage motivation, improve mental health and build employability skills. FCW is geared to long-term, male and female, high risk offenders who stay on the programme for 2 to 10 years. Our goal is to enable prisoners to gain social and employment skills so they can desist from re-offending in the future. Prisoners on the programme work for 20-40 hours a week in their cells.

We have a workforce of approximately 250 prisoners across 30 prisons. The apprenticeship training is done by 50 skilled volunteers. The prisoners make hand-embroidered quilts, cushions, clothes, rugs and furniture covers which are sold internationally and to museums and designers.

Our aim is to enable prisoners to gain motivation and “work-readiness” by doing cellwork and to follow on with further employment preparation in workshops where they can do accredited training in soft furnishings, machine embroidery and upholstery.

Food Matters Foundation is a charity that works to see healthy, sustainable, fair food become a reality for everybody, every day. We work to deliver change in policy and practice through innovative, participatory, citizen-led, whole systems approaches. Food Matters has developed a unique voice in the food sector and a highly successful way of working that can help individuals, communities, groups, businesses and other organisations develop, deliver and evaluate ground-breaking, food policy work and locally relevant initiatives.

A major focus of Food Matters’ current work programme is on food system reform across the penal sector including services that encompass ‘at risk’ of offending, prisoners and probation to change food policy and the food environment to better support prisoners and ex-offenders to access healthier food choices to improve health and mental well-being and reduce reoffending.

We are doing this through a project called Food Matters Inside and Out.

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.

Inspirit Training & Development Ltd is an ex-service user led organisation that primarily works to support alcohol and drug users and their families through educational opportunities, personal development and consultation for service user involvement.

Inspirit deliver a diploma in health & social care, (specialising working with multiple disadvantage), which trains many-ex service users to develop the skills to work in the field. Inspirit run "Freespace", a creative and personal development group for ex-service users. They also coordinate service user involvement in the London Borough of Islington, (substance misuse services), and are responsible for developing a pioneering co-production process for NHS England, London Region, in healthcare in the London Prison Estate and other criminal justice settings.

Magic Lantern is an educational charity that gives interactive art history talks in a variety of learning establishments. We show that anyone can engage with, understand and enjoy famous works of art and help provide the stories behind the images. We also use art to help develop a wide range of life skills including communication, observation and confidence.

Mind in Camden works alongside people experiencing voices, visions, unusual beliefs, anxiety, hopelessness and extremes of mood, stimulating development in mental health services by providing and partnering in services that increase self-esteem and hope, promote peer support and co-production and challenge stigma and prejudice.

Our Prisons project has developed a network of peer support groups for people in prison who hear voices or have other unusual sensory experiences (linked to trauma, mental ill health, drug use and/or emotional issues). We co-facilitate groups, and train/support staff prisons to improve outcomes for prisoners and ex-offenders who hear voices.
- We co-ordinate the London Hearing Voices Network and run an innovative projects developing peer support for young people who hear voices (Voice Collective) and groups for people struggling with paranoia.
- Our Mental Health Day Service is co-produced, enabling service users to plan and provide their own services.

MTC works in probation, custody and consultancy to transform lives through rehabilitation, build safer communities and break the cycle of reoffending.

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.

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.

Penrose is a charity that has been supporting people with complex needs for 50 years. As a Tier 2 provider for London CRC, we currently deliver the following high-performing services:

• Resettlement support to 6,000 men per year in 4 male prisons
• Community supervision of 2,500 men sentenced to less than 12 months, with our Responsible Officers based in every London borough
• Job Fairs that bring together a range of employers and trainers, providing service users a one-stop shop of live opportunities, CV and disclosure workshops and interview technique classes

Outside of our probation work, we deliver a wide range of residential and floating support services across London, Brighton and Bedfordshire, with a particular focus on mental health (including forensic), substance misuse and complex needs.