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2911 Property is an early stage innovative property development social enterprise company. We work with investors and the education sector to provide vocational training opportunities in the construction/building industry with the aim of providing our clients opportunities to learn practical skills and undertake work experience. The end goal is to improve clients self-esteem, increase opportunities and employability. We work alongside local authorities and charities to place the refurbished/renovated properties into social housing schemes thereby providing increased accommodation opportunities for the clients.

3SC manages contracts on behalf of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. The delivery of public services is a difficult and competitive marketplace, dominated by large commercial organisations that can lack the person-centred and inclusive approach to public services that the VCSE sector excels at delivering. 3SC gives these organisations a chance to compete for, and ultimately deliver, such contracts. We have built supply chains and worked with more than 550 different delivery organisations across 16 programmes in the welfare to work/employment, young people, criminal justice, and disabilities’ arenas. 3SC has supported and enabled the VCSE sector to access more than £62 million since its inception through our directly delivered contracts and Transforming Rehabilitation activities. We believe that the needs of people using public services, especially those who are hardest to reach, are best met by experienced, local, passionate and mission-driven organisations.

Employment, housing, education, complaints, community asset acquisition, welfare rights, criminal justice reports, human rights, access to healthcare and community care.

Founded in 1991, we provide housing, support and domiciliary care to people recovering from drug or alcohol misuse | with mental health support needs | who have a learning disability | who are vulnerable young people | who are vulnerable families including single parents.

We do this by providing good quality housing, whether owned by us, leased from or managed on behalf of others. We encourage independence by helping with budgeting, finding work, training or education, finding and keeping permanent accommodation, overcoming social isolation and engaging with the community.

AVP helps people to deal with conflict and violence, and build better relationships with others. In Britain, this is achieved through the provision of workshops in prisons and in the wider community, and a distance learning programme, ‘Facing Up to Conflict’, available free of charge to all prisoners. The organisation's priority groups are offenders and ex-offenders, people affected by domestic violence, and those whose mental health has been affected by violence.

Arts Award offers qualifications to young people under 25 that develop their creativity, leadership and communication skills. Arts Award can be delivered by any service or setting offering arts, cultural or media activities, and can be embedded in a variety of youth-work focused projects or environments.

It provides a highly accessible framework for creative development, combining the appeal of the arts with the motivation of a qualification. Arts Award also provides an effective means to deliver key youth work, restorative justice and re-proration including supporting young people’s personal and social development, raising young people’s aspirations and ensuring all young people are able to participate and achieve in education or training.

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.

Beyond the Gate is a magazine published by ex-offenders for people entering and leaving custody. The point of the magazine is to encapsulate information that people in those situations need, and to sign-post them in the right direction to get any help they need. As well as features by these support groups and organisations, the magazine will also feature stories from people who have successfully broken their own offending cycles and are now leading crime-free lives.

Chance 2 Change is an 8 session group based programme, using the cognitive behavioural therapy to reduce negativity and marginalisation in our communities. Each group works intensively with up to 10 clients and seeks to nurture good where otherwise negative behaviour can become prevalent. We aim to make other interventions more effective and responsive by creating a solid foundation of emotional strength upon which other services can be used to build a complete and robust package of support.

Without tackling the underlying causes of why marginalisation exits in the first place it is very difficult to bring about lasting change and therefore it is necessary to alter the thinking patterns of participants before addressing the practical issues otherwise their underlying emotions will always cause conflict both in themselves and others. We believe and have demonstrated that change must start from within and we are best placed to deliver this.

Brook helps young people up to the age of 25 with their sexual health, relationships and wellbeing so that they can be healthy happy and safe from harm. We are the only national charity that provides both clinical and educational services that address immediate health needs, and equip young people to develop positive, enjoyable relationships and become sexually healthy adults.
We deliver high quality education and information; provide one-to-one support with behaviour change; deliver accessible sexual and reproductive health services; and promote good health seeking behaviours.
In addition, we help develop professionals' confidence and competences; and adocate and campaign for education and health services that will improve health outcomes for all young people.

Business in Focus is a social enterprise working to support enterprise in Wales for 34 years, delivering business space, programmes of business advice, support and funding. Our headquarters are in Bridgend, with operational premises across Wales, including Carmarthen and Newtown, but located mainly in South Wales. In response to the pandemic, we are providing virtual support, by phone, video conferencing and online workshops which extends our reach UK-wide.We have been accepted on to the probation framework to deliver ETE and are interested in a partnership approach.
Our self-employment support helps individuals, regardless of their background, to develop entrepreneurial skills/behaviours and improve their chances of managing a successful, sustainable business. We aim to increase motivation, generate business ideas, develop transferable skills and a positive peer network before referring to mainstream business support for advice and guidance or test-trading.

CAIS is a registered charity and leading voluntary sector provider of personal support services in Wales. It helps people who are having problems with addictions, mental health, personal development and employment – as well as offering assistance and information to their families and friends. Its wide range of services includes residential treatment and rehabilitation, counselling, peer mentoring, supporting people in their homes, assisting people back into work or education, group work and other motivational interventions. CAIS can also offer a comprehensive range of training courses, together with training and support for employers. It is very active in the field of employment interventions including the development of our own social enterprises. CAIS is committed to working in partnership with others in keeping with the All Wales Strategy – Tackling Substance Misuse in Wales. All of its services aim to help people to recover from addiction and rebuild normal, productive lifestyles.

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.

The CLA works with all care leavers over the age of 16. We are guided by the views of our membership and thus hav0a wide range of areas of interest and activity. However, our work can be grouped into five main areas:

•User Led Support - A Network Project, group support, social networking site and virtual mechanisms to help people connect.
•Projects - Areas of work with specific outcomes – young people, access to records, speaking out, media.
•Training and Assessment - We work with a wide range of organisations to improve service delivery to care leavers through training and quality assessment.
•Advice, information and signposting - Focus on informing care leavers about their rights through signposting to additional support services and developing our guides and fact sheets while providing some individual casework.
•Research, Policy and Campaigns - We conduct, collate and promote research about care leavers

Redemption Roasters is a Coffee Wholesale company that also provides Barista skills education into prisons and opportunities for employment upon release. Our aim is to provide real usable skills that will benefit ex offenders as they seek meaningful employment after release.

We change the lives of people with mental health problems by using research to bring about better services and fairer policies and we support local providers to put the findings of research into practice.

The Centre’s qualitative research helps to understand the experiences of people with mental health problems and the profound importance that services and policies have on their lives. Our work is unique because it stands apart from academic and clinically focused research projects and trials. We have a mature programme of research and policy work around the criminal justice system that has developed over more than twenty years.

Our motivation is to emphasise people’s experiences, facilitate societal change and help those who can to create a world class mental health service in prisons. We have the authority, influence, and independence to successfully bring quality research to bear on local and national decision-making and practice.

Chance for Change is committed to enabling young adults to take responsibility for their future direction. We create opportunities that enable them to begin a journey of personal development in wilderness environments to broaden their horizons, realise their talents and acquire new skills which will give them the potential to take their place as the community leaders of the future. We put the focus on strengths not weaknesses; on assets not deficits and invest in young talent. As well as working in the UK, we also deliver programmes for marginalised communities in Nepal and Malawi.

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

Chrysalis act as a recruitment agency who provide employment opportunities for ex offenders and prisoners due for release with the long term aim of helping to break the cycle of re offending.
Identifying the areas of shortages within certain skills sets and offering the relevant training to ex-offenders/prisoners will not only enhance employability skills and increase employment opportunities for ex offenders, it will bolster the UK's skilled workforce ensuring we are open for business and capable of meeting the demand.

Chrysalis Partnership actively promote and encourage other employers to employ ex offenders and to challenge the misconceptions of their work ethic!

Circles UK seeks greater public protection by working towards a substantial reduction in sexual offending, providing a range of services to local Circles of Support and Accountability providers. Further, it aims to develop greater public understanding of community approaches to public protection.