Partnership Finder

Barnardo’s runs over 1,000 services for children and families in local communities across the UK. Our work includes reaching and helping children who have been sexually exploited, young people leaving the care system, children with a parent in prison and families struggling to cope. We find loving adoptive homes and foster placements for children in care.

Barnardo's delivers family engagement services and visit centres in Dorset and West Midlands, including evidence based parenting programmes, one-to-one case work, and innovative engagement programmes to support families of prisoners and relationships with significant others. We have specialist knowledge working with vulnerable groups including working with families of veterans who are in prison and extensive experience working with care leavers.

Our award-winning approach, BBM, helps people develop their soft skills (e.g. communication, self-motivation, time-management, team-working), improving employability and wellbeing. BBM produces quantitative evidence of the changes that are made.
We support organisations through our consultancy, using BBM Diagnostic to identify and remove barriers in systems and processes that stop organisations making the most of their people and doing their best work.

Basis Yorkshire supports indoor and street sexworkers in Leeds with information and access to services including sexual health, housing, physical and mental health support, benefits, support regarding sexual and other forms of violence and advocacy on behalf of sexworkers. We also deliver a specialist one to one service for young people experiencing sexual exploitation and abuse in Leeds, Bradford and Hull. We also offer training nationally in all our areas of expertise and related areas and campaign for the rights of our service users.

Beam is a social enterprise that delivers tailored 1-2-1 support to people in prison or on probation to progress them into secure employment and housing.
We work with 35 local authorities nationally and have been commissioned by the DWP across London, in Scotland, and the Midlands. Our proven model - which combines person-centred 1-2-1 support, the lived experience of our caseworkers, and the power of our innovative technology, has enabled 97% of our service users to maintain desistance. Since our founding in 2017, we have supported over 1,000 people to achieve high-quality employment and housing, despite being out of work for 5 years on average. Our comprehensive in-work and tenancy sustainment support has ensured 86% of our service users sustain employment for over 3 months and 96% sustain tenancies for over 6 months.

Beating Time runs two continuous prison programmes with the aim of improving mental health and social inclusion in prison and employment opportunities on release. Choirs Beating Time is our weekly group singing and performance programme. Inside Job is our peer-led employment programme working in prison and supported by our team through-the-gate and on release.

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 Recovery provides a cost-effective, evidence-based intervention enabling people in prison to uncover their innate mental well-being and improve their mental health and behaviour in prison. This enables them to have a stronger sense of purpose and to live a more satisfying and law-abiding life on release. We are committed to growth and impact through empowering prisoners to help themselves and each other through our Apprentice programs and Academy.

Post COVID-19 we have developed a Remote Service including Self-Study material, guided DVD’s and facilitator guided one-to-ones for prison residents. Online mentoring and guidance for our returning residents and their families in the community. And a community voluntary organisation led by people with lived experience.

Impact is achieved through personal realisation, or insight. Outcomes include significant increase in mental wellbeing, purpose in life and pro-social behaviour, and decrease in violence.

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.

BF Adventure, established in 1989, has developed a well-equipped and fully accessible 60-acre activity centre (“Goodygrane”) with four flooded granite quarries set in woods and heathland on the rural outskirts of Penryn. From this central location the charity, also constituted as a limited company, delivers programmes to challenge and inspire around 4,000 people throughout Cornwall each year.

Its experienced and highly motivated team of instructors and volunteers use these exciting outdoor resources to support children and adults who experience multiple disadvantage including difficulties which stem from physical, mental, behavioural and/or learning difficulties. Through a vast range of activities ranging from archery, abseiling and bushcraft to watersports and the zipwire, the team supports and monitors participants in building confidence and self-esteem, developing life skills - with accreditations as appropriate – to promote engagement and positive change.

Birmingham Community Development Scheme (BCDS) is a specialist organisation in Birmingham that provides mentoring to young offenders, ex-offenders and the long termed unemployed. BCDS specialized in the delivery of behaviour modification workshops, employability workshops, job clubs, CV and cover letters workshops and other programmes for young people who are at risk of offending and people who want to get back into work.

Birth Companions is a unique charity which supports women experiencing severe disadvantage during pregnancy, birth and early parenting. We are the UK’s leading organisation working in this area, with widely acknowledged expertise in the needs of pregnant women and new mothers facing severe disadvantage both in prison and the community.

The women we support face a range of issues and challenges including mental health problems, substance misuse, a history of domestic and sexual violence, trafficking, experience of detention and human rights violations overseas. They are particularly vulnerable during their pregnancies due to the effects of poor health, poverty, lack of support from family and friends as well as isolation.
Our overall aim is to empower women and help them to give their babies best possible start in life.

We also seek to raise awareness and to influence changes in policy and practice to improve conditions for the women we work with.

Using drama-based activities, Blank Cheque works with underrepresented and marginalised people to develop life skills, connect with communities, be creative, make art, and have fun.

BLAST Foundation is a Christian "Through The Gate" Resettlement organisation, working with prisoners and ex-offenders and their families of all faiths and no faiths. BLAST aim to be provider of choice, for prisons and probation trusts wishing to reduce recidivism and improve resettlement for prison inmates who want to transform their lives and break their cycle of re-offending. BLAST achieves this through our transformation, employability & business programmes delivered in prison. These programmes combine and are supported by BLASTs mentor and resettlement services, to support ex-offenders and their families in the difficult task of re-integrating in society

Our purpose is to improve the quality of life of people in Newcastle by bringing together the diversity and expertise of the voluntary and community sector to deliver a wide variety of services. The Consortium is a single point of contracting, benefitting commissioners by reducing transaction costs and befitting providers by developing them into a supply chain in which they can work together in a structured way. We have 40 members from the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

Currently we are delivering a contract to deliver an element of Fulfilling Lives, a highly innovative programme in to help people in Newcastle Gateshead with multiple needs (in terms of addiction, mental health, offending, and housing) to better manage their lives, by ensuring that the services they use are more tailored and better connected to each other.

Blueprint: Film Foundation is a company limited by guarantee that delivers film and multimedia projects to community groups and education establishments across Lincolnshire, Yorkshire & The Humber and the East Midlands. Since forming in 2007, the foundation has been awarded small but frequent grants that have enabled us to deliver community orientated projects and forge working relationships with a range of councils and associations such as Lincoln Council, Abbey Access Training and Education & Youth Services. We have also received support from a variety of funders including Heritage Lottery, European Social Fund and First Light.

Making A Difference

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

Based at the Greenman, Loughborough Junction, the work that we are doing is aimed at providing a holistic approach to solving some of our society’s biggest challenges.

We work with people from all backgrounds and champion diversity, inclusion, and well-being and aim to create a place where everyone feels valued and has a sense of belonging, helping to keep the public safe. Giving people the chance to turn their lives around.

We undertake the full range of work with offenders before and after sentences. This will include assessment, sentence implementation, offender management, and producing reports. We provide case management support to a full range of offenders utilizing service procedures and practice directions that underpin professional judgment

We collect books from publishers, libraries, shops and individuals, sort and stamp them and redistribute them free of charge to organizations working with homeless people, prisons, offenders and ex-offenders, womens refuges, refugees,asylum applicants and others with limited funds. We want to see more Borderline Books groups in other locations - it is an excellent project for ex-offenders to run. We can offer an 'office in a box', plus initial supply of books and a wealth of experience. The project is very flexible and could be combined with literacy classes or writing groups as well as giving useful job-training skills. We sometimes have to turn down book donations as we don't have funds to bring them up to Gateshead so local editions would be great.

We are particularly interested in working with more prisons. Do get in contact.
We are also providing free books to custody suites in the North East. Enquiries welcome.

We are a project of the Kittiwake Trust charity number 1165318

With training centres in 5 London prisons 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 we 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 our 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.