Ex-offenders

National and regional support for ex-offenders.

England: national support

Antz Junction – supports ex-offenders and deprived communities move towards employment

Barnardo’s – support for children with a parent in prison

Catch 22 – provides rehabilitation services in the community for young prison leavers and ex-offenders

Children Heard and Seen – support for children and young people with a parent in prison

Circles UK – volunteer network that work with sex offenders to manage risk and return back to society

CLINKS – directory of services for ex-offenders

Co-Financing Organisation Activity Hubs – wide range of support services for sentenced prison leavers

Criminal Justice Service: Change Grow Live – integrated drug and alcohol treatment programme aimed to stop reoffending.

Disclosure and Barring Service on GOV.UK – information on criminal record checks for employment

Going Forward into Employment (GFiE) – government wide scheme to support prison leavers gain opportunities through the civil service

Hardman Trust – resettlement support for prison leavers

Information Hub – information on what criminal convictions can affect

Mayday Trust – support for people going through a life transition including prison leavers

NACRO – support for housing, education and advice for disadvantaged young people, including prison leavers

National Information Centre on Children of Offenders (NICCO) – directory of services to support the children and families of offenders

National Probation Service – manages offenders in the community

New Futures Network – information about how employers work with prisons to provide opportunities for prison leavers

Offploy – aims to reduce reoffending through mentored and sustainable employment

PLIAS Resettlement – supports the resettlement and reintegration of offenders back into the community

Princes Trust – information and links to additional services that support prison leavers

Prison Advice and Care Trust (PACT) – support for prisoners, people with convictions and their families

Prisoners’ Families Helpline – advice and information on what happens on arrest, prison visits and preparing for release

Prison Reform Trust – advice on prison rights, conditions and how to get help in prison

Prosper 4 Group – employment and enterprise services for ex-offenders

Recruit – ex-offender friendly employer vacancies

Recruit with Conviction – information on supporting people with criminal convictions looking for work

St Giles Trust – community based prison leaver support (also known as St Giles Wise)

Spent conviction calculator – single use calculator to establish when criminal convictions become ‘spent’ under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

Startup – support for women prison leavers for further education, work experience and self-employment

Step Together – support for prison leavers through voluntary work

Supportline – directory of support for people with criminal convictions

Universal Credit and prison leavers on GOV.UK – information for prison leavers, work coaches and probation officers about Universal Credit

Unlock – support overcoming the long term effects of a criminal record

Working Chance – recruitment consultancy for women prison leavers

Women in Prison – support for women in prison and post release

Avon, Somerset and Gloucestershire

Bristol Together- a social enterprise that buys, refurbishes and sells empty properties, and helps create full time jobs for people who have been in prison

Impact Pathways - search for organisations that offer services to individuals with criminal convictions to help them make positive changes to their lives

P.E.O.P.L.E -peoplelimited - Offering help and support to low risk offenders that have recently left prison

Key4Life – Reducing youth re-offending - an innovative crime prevention charity which rehabilitates young men in prison or at risk of going to prison, and provides real solutions to help reduce youth offending

ExChange mentoring programme - aimed at supporting young people 10 – 17 identified as being at risk of potential future violence

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

Bedfordshire Probation Trust - Bedfordshire Domestic Abuse Partnership - Help for those ex-offenders who are in an abusive relationship

Forward Trust – see website for service available

Community Led Initiatives Bedford - Mentoring support. From community sentences to coming out of custody

Companions Real Bread CIC - Clinks - Supported volunteering for ex-offenders

Direction for Bedfordshire - A gateway support service for individuals emerging from prison or any other part of the Criminal Justice system

Langley House – see website for details of available services

Stepping Stones (Luton) - see website for available support

St Giles trust - range of services designed to help ex-offenders

HACRO Rehabilitation for offenders - help people who’ve been on the wrong side of the law to get their lives back on track by focusing on both Family Support and the creation of Employment

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

Alana House - PACT - Alana House is a community service run by PACT that uses a holistic approach to support and empower women

Thames Valley Partnership Offender Mentoring - contact your Work Coach for referral

Trailblazers Mentoring Young Offenders - contact your Work Coach for referral

Elmore Community Services - contact your Work Coach for referral

South Oxfordshire District Council - Self-referral: Online Enhanced Housing Options Form/Telephone/Email/Face to face

Vale of White Horse District Council - Self-referral: Online Enhanced Housing Options Form/Telephone/Email/Face to face

Devon and Cornwall

CASS+ Free Advice and Support for offenders, families and victims at courts

Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Isle of Wight

bcha – Bournemouth and Poole- CFO3 is a voluntary programme to support people who are in the Criminal Justice system to reintegrate into the community

Footprints Project Limited – Dorset - Provides person centred support for offenders or those who are at risk of offending

jhbikeworkshop - A range of support for claimants who are at risk of being socially excluded 

The Alliance Programme - RCS - see website for available support

East London

London Training and Employment Network – contact your Work Coach about the Positive Turn Around Project providing employability and in work support for ex-offenders in London

Just for Kids – advice for young people on their legal rights in Canning Town

Essex

Phoenix Futures – support for ex-offenders with additional needs across Essex (except Thurrock and Southend)

Kent

Forward Trust – provides employability support and probation services across Kent

Ixion Holdings – speak to your Work Coach about this support for offenders on licence in Chatham to move closer to the workplace

RBLI – support for ex-offenders in Ashford, Chatham, Dartford, Dover Gravesend and Margate through a Brighter Futures programme to gain employment

North London

Bounce Back – provides support and job opportunities in construction for people leaving prison

HARRP Trust – contact your Work Coach about this mentoring and support opportunity for ex-offenders in Enfield, Waltham Cross and Haringey

RIFT Social Enterprise – contact your Work Coach about this self-employment support opportunities for ex-offenders in North London

South London

CFO Activity Hubs London - support men and women on licence or serving a community sentence.

CirclesSE - Reducing Sexual abuse in our communities

St Giles - We help people held back by poverty, exploited, abused, dealing with addiction or mental health problems, caught up in crime or a combination of these issues and others.

Surrey and Sussex

Sussex Prisoners’ Families - Support for children, young people and families.

User Voice - give a voice to the people in the criminal justice system

West London

Action West London - Help disadvantaged, unemployed young people and adults secure employment.

PLIAS Resettlement - Supporting the resettlement and reintegration of offenders into the community

Cheshire

PSS Women’s Turnaround Warrington - a service for women who have offended in the past.

Greater Manchester

Back on Track - offers a range of support and learning opportunities including employability, functional skills, creative activities, citizenship, life skills, and health and wellbeing

Partners of Prisoners - provide information and support for offenders’ families from the point of arrest through to release and beyond.

Merseyside

Apex Trust - supports individuals to move away from a lifestyle which may encourage offending or re-offending

Mals Merseyside - mentoring service tailored to meet the needs of the individuals or groups. Deliver both group and one-to-one sessions

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear

The Oswin Project - help people with criminal records to find employment, training and support in the North East of England.

Birmingham and Solihull

Accord Housing Association Limited - Housing support for ex-offenders, Solihull only

Swanswell- Birmingham - delivers floating support for offenders, single people and people requiring support with mental health issues

East Anglia

Forward Trust - offers employment opportunities in the construction and recycling industries for all types of ex offender

Home Group - into work support for learners from a vast array of different backgrounds and the different barriers they face in life including ex-offenders

Street Life Soccer - offers sessions for the homeless, ex-offenders, vulnerably housed and the unemployed

Leicestershire and Northamptonshire

Access2Advice – provides support to prison leavers needing help

Chance 2 Change – offers support to young people aged 16-25 who are at risk or have already become involved in serious violent crime

Support for Ex-offenders Leicester Employment Hub – offers support to ex-offenders

Tempus Novo – supports ex-offenders into employment

Unlocking Potential Project – offers support to young people aged 16-25 who are at risk of offending, current offenders or ex-offenders

Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland

Lincolnshire Action Trust - offers a range of training opportunities and employment support to prepare people for their release

Straight Six Café - provides a supportive rehabilitative experience for those released from prison or working with probation to develop key skills

Mercia

Ixion Holdings – provides support to the hardest to help offenders move towards mainstream provision or into employment - contact your work coach about this opportunity

Youth offending - Telford and Wrekin Council - provides support to young people aged 10 to 17 and their families, aiming to reduce offending by children and young people

Staffordshire and Derbyshire

Chameleon School of Construction - offers free construction qualifications to help ex-offenders, homeless people, learners with mental illness or addiction

Home Group - offers support to single homeless people aged 18 to 25, including ex-offenders

Ixion Holdings – provides support to the hardest to help offenders move towards mainstream provision or into employment - contact to your work coach about this opportunity

Rhubarb Farm - provides a variety of services to ex-offenders to help them move into work

Saltbox Restart - provides support to the most vulnerable ex-offenders who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless

Scotland: national support

Access to Industry – supports people with a history of offending or are serving a community or custodial sentence find future work opportunities across Scotland

Apex Scotland – works with people with criminal convictions to change behaviour and offer opportunities to learn new skills for work

Barnardo’s – support for children with a parent in prison

Catch 22 – provides rehabilitation services in the community for young prison leavers and ex-offenders

Children Heard and Seen – support for children and young people with a parent in prison

Circles UK – volunteer network that work with sex offenders to manage risk and return back to society

CLINKS – directory of services for ex-offenders

Criminal Justice Service: Change Grow Live – integrated drug and alcohol treatment programme aimed to stop reoffending.

Disclosure and Barring Service on GOV.UK – information on criminal record checks for employment

Families Outside – support for families affected by imprisonment through a helpline and regional family support coordinators in Scotland

Going Forward into Employment (GFiE) – government wide scheme to support prison leavers gain opportunities through the civil service

Hardman Trust – resettlement support for prison leavers

Information Hub – information on what criminal convictions can affect

Mayday Trust – support for people going through a life transition including prison leavers

National Probation Service – manages offenders in the community

Navigating the Scottish Justice System – an interactive digital map which explains the key stages of the Scottish justice system

Offploy – aims to reduce reoffending through mentored and sustainable employment

PLIAS Resettlement – supports the resettlement and reintegration of offenders back into the community

Princes Trust – information and links to additional services that support prison leavers

Prison Advice and Care Trust (PACT) – support for prisoners, people with convictions and their families

Prison Reform Trust – advice on prison rights, conditions and how to get help in prison

Prosper 4 Group – employment and enterprise services for ex-offenders

Recruit – ex-offender friendly employer vacancies

Recruit with Conviction – information on supporting people with criminal convictions looking for work

St Giles Trust – community based prison leaver support (also known as St Giles Wise)

Spent conviction calculator – single use calculator to establish when criminal convictions become ‘spent’ under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

Startup – support for women prison leavers for further education, work experience and self-employment

Step Together – support for prison leavers through voluntary work

Supportline – directory of support for people with criminal convictions

Universal Credit and prison leavers on GOV.UK – information for prison leavers, work coaches and probation officers about Universal Credit

Unlock – support overcoming the long term effects of a criminal record

Venture Trust – runs a criminal justice system rehabilitation service across Scotland

Working Chance – recruitment consultancy for women prison leavers

Women in Prison – support for women in prison and post release

Central Scotland

Glasgow Life Criminal Justice Project – contact your Work Coach about this support service for people on probation in Glasgow

East Scotland

Criminal Justice Support through West Lothian Health and Social Care – supervision and information for offenders who are in prison on statuary throughcare or who have been released subject to licence

Cyrenians – supports people to tackle the causes of homelessness, including support for ex-offenders and prison leavers

EMORS – contact your Work Coach about this Edinburgh and Midlothian Offender and Recovery Service focused on drug and alcohol, arrest referral and throughcare services for adults, offenders and young people

Grassmarket Project – community support projects for vulnerable people including ex-offenders based in Edinburgh

The VOW Project – contact your Work Coach about this Edinburgh based police project aiming to reduce offending

Willow – supports women ex-offenders aged 17 or over in Edinburgh and Midlothian

North East Scotland

Freedom Unlimited – contact your Work Coach about this social enterprise that aims to provide training and employment opportunities for people with criminal convictions in Dalgety Bay

Labyrinth Service – contact your Work Coach about this employability service that works with people with sexual offenses in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire

Northern Scotland

Shetland Island Council – contact information with support services for people with an offense in the Shetland Islands

South West Scotland

Connect Call – contact your Work Coach about this telephony support service for ex-offenders in East Ayrshire

North Ayrshire Council Justice Services – contact your Work Coach about this employability mentor service for people with a criminal record in North Ayrshire

SHINE – provides a women’s mentoring service for women in prison or subject to a Community Payback Order in Ayr and Girvan

West Scotland

Community Justice Renfrewshire – information and support services for ex-offenders in Renfrewshire

I Fit – A charity that provides support for prison leavers and ex-offenders to rejoin the community of Inverclyde

West Dunbartonshire Council – information on the criminal justice system and support services available to ex-offenders in West Dunbartonshire

Wales: national support

Barnardo’s – support for children with a parent in prison

Catch 22 – provides rehabilitation services in the community for young prison leavers and ex-offenders

Children Heard and Seen – support for children and young people with a parent in prison

Circles UK – volunteer network that work with sex offenders to manage risk and return back to society

CLINKS – directory of services for ex-offenders

Criminal Justice Service: Change Grow Live – integrated drug and alcohol treatment programme aimed to stop reoffending.

Disclosure and Barring Service on GOV.UK – information on criminal record checks for employment

Going Forward into Employment (GFiE) – government wide scheme to support prison leavers gain opportunities through the civil service

Hardman Trust – resettlement support for prison leavers

Information Hub – information on what criminal convictions can affect

Mayday Trust – support for people going through a life transition including prison leavers

NACRO – support for housing, education and advice for disadvantaged young people, including prison leavers

National Information Centre on Children of Offenders (NICCO) – directory of services to support the children and families of offenders

National Probation Service – manages offenders in the community

New Futures Network – information about how employers work with prisons to provide opportunities for prison leavers

Offploy – aims to reduce reoffending through mentored and sustainable employment

PLIAS Resettlement – supports the resettlement and reintegration of offenders back into the community

Princes Trust – information and links to additional services that support prison leavers

Prison Advice and Care Trust (PACT) – support for prisoners, people with convictions and their families

Prisoners’ Families Helpline – advice and information on what happens on arrest, prison visits and preparing for release

Prison Reform Trust – advice on prison rights, conditions and how to get help in prison

Prosper 4 Group – employment and enterprise services for ex-offenders

Recruit – ex-offender friendly employer vacancies

Recruit with Conviction – information on supporting people with criminal convictions looking for work

Shelter Prison Link Cymru – homelessness prevention service at the point of entry into custody to support prisoners to keep their homes

St Giles Trust – community based prison leaver support (also known as St Giles Wise)

Spent conviction calculator – single use calculator to establish when criminal convictions become ‘spent’ under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

Startup – support for women prison leavers for further education, work experience and self-employment

Step Together – support for prison leavers through voluntary work

Supportline – directory of support for people with criminal convictions

Universal Credit and prison leavers on GOV.UK – information for prison leavers, work coaches and probation officers about Universal Credit

Unlock – support overcoming the long term effects of a criminal record

Working Chance – recruitment consultancy for women prison leavers

Women in Prison – support for women in prison and post release

North and Mid Wales

CAIS – provides personal support services for rehabilitation, counselling, mentoring and returning back to society including Jigsaw, which helps ex-offenders, people with substance misuse or mental health issues

Choose Life The Prisoners Initiative – for unemployed people with a history of drug or alcohol addictive who which to work in the drugs field

Dewi Sant Centre – support for prison leavers with immediate housing needs in Rhyl

Kaleidoscope Powys Drug and Alcohol Service – includes support when arrested relating to addiction

South East Wales

Include – support for ex-offenders across South Wales

Inside Out Support Wales – contact your Work Coach about this mentoring and coaching service for people with convictions across the district

Motiv-8 – contact your Work Coach about this mentoring service for people with convictions in Caerphilly, Blackwood and Bargoed – includes MAPPA clients

POBL – floating support for prolific and priority offenders – call 01495 740730

South West Wales

Include – support for ex-offenders across South Wales

The Wallich BOSS Project – provides employability and entrepreneurship training for ex-offenders in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot