3 Pillars Project

South East

Sector: Sport and Fitness

3Pillars Project is a UK-based charity using sports, particularly rugby, to mentor and rehabilitate young men in the criminal justice system, focusing on exercise, education, and ethos.

It aims to support individuals in custody and post-release by providing opportunities to rebuild their lives, reduce reoffending, and integrate into society through structured mentoring programs.

A Band of Brothers

Nationwide

Sector: Personal Development

An award-winning UK charity providing mentoring for young men facing adversity — supporting them through rites of passage into a responsible, fulfilling adulthood.

A Change for Good

London

Sector: Charity

Change for Good (CFG) is volunteer mentoring charity that supports prisoners (their “members") before and after release as they resettle in London.

CFG is a faith-based charity that works with people of all faiths and none. They are an active member of the Community Chaplaincy Association (CCA), a wider network of organisations that share a similar ethos and aims.

A Fairer Chance

London

Sector: Recruitment

A Fairer Chance helps to break the cycle of reoffending through employment. Skills matching people with convictions and supporting them into sustainable work by using their extensive knowledge of the Criminal Justice System and the Labour Market.

Enabling employers to fill the skills and labour gaps in their industries by guiding them through the Criminal Justice System, and supporting them to recruit confidently.

Anawim

Midlands

Sector: Charity

Anwim offers responsive wraparound support to enable women to reach their potential.

It works with more than 2000 women a year through advocacy, counselling, crisis intervention, and intensive long-term specialist support both in the community in Birmingham and in prison.

Aspire Oxford

South East

Sector: Recruitment

Founded in 2001. Aspire Oxfordshire is an employment charity and social enterprise, supporting vulnerable and marginalised people to address their unique housing and employment needs.

They provide specialist long-term and person-centred support, guiding their beneficiaries to build upon their skills and self-confidence.

Back on Track

North West

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Back on Track is a leading specialist provider of community learning and holistic support to adults experiencing multiple disadvantage. This could be managing problematic drug/alcohol use, living a crime-free life, improving mental health and wellbeing, or finding a stable home.

Their learning centre in central Manchester offers a range of support and learning opportunities including employability, functional skills, creative activities, citizenship, life skills, and health & wellbeing. One to one progression sessions help identify next steps and they have years of experience supporting people with convictions.

Beating Time

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

Offer: Creative Enrichment

Established by Heather Phillips in 2014, it is an award-winning charity that uses group singing to improve mental health in prisons through weekly singing groups. For over a decade, Choirs Beating Time has fostered social inclusion and hope for people in prison.

In 2021, the charity expanded its impact by launching Inside Job, a peer-led employment programme that supports people during their sentences and after release, helping them into paid work and training. Today, both Choirs Beating Time and Inside Job operate continuously across 11 prisons in London, Kent, the Midlands, and the Northeast, in partnership with The Recruitment Junction.


Their programmes help people reconnect with who they are – as artists, workers, parents, and valued members of the community. Choirs restore a sense of belonging and positivity, while Inside Job opens up employment opportunities for individuals who may have previously dismissed them.

Belong

South East

Sector: Charity

Offer: Mentoring and Coaching, Personal Support

Founded in 2010, Belong's vision is to ensure hope, rehabilitation and recovery for victims and perpetrators of harm. Their mission is to inspire change by providing long-term, individualised responses to conflict and crime. They work with children, young people and adults in custodial and community settings.

Working nationally across the United Kingdom, mainly within London and the South East of England, Belong uses their frontline knowledge to influence the criminal justice landscape, playing a significant part in developing a more effective, more humane criminal justice system.

Their main services include, mentoring, creative Psychotherapy and Restorative Justice. Their services are delivered through-the-gate, and focus on preparing individuals from release from the criminal justice system and to live crime-free lives.

Beyond Food Foundation

London

Sector: Hospitality

Beyond Food Foundation is a charity that provides food & nutrition training and support to people who have been impacted by homelessness, mental health, addiction, those with a criminal record or those who are at risk of homelessness.

The foundation provides a support programme that creates a pathway for individuals leading to a career, mostly in the catering and hospitality sector.

Beyond Recovery

Nationwide

Sector: Rehabilitation

Beyond Recovery works with people affected by the Criminal Justice System, addiction and gambling related harms. It helps people look beyond mere survival and existence, and move forward, with hope, resilience and purpose in life.

Beyond Recovery provides support for Prison residents and their families through their Buddies Scheme, as well as supporting them upon release with their community groups, webinars and also weekly Academy meetings.

Beyond the Gate Publishing

North West

Sector: Charity and Social Enterprise

Offer: Creative Enrichment

Beyond the Gate is a not for profit company providing a magazine distributed to those in and leaving custody; a directory of places and organisations that exist to help those within the justice system.

Backed-up by real-life stories from people who have turned their lives around, the publication seeks to prove that there is life Beyond the Gate.

All printing is done within the H M Prisons helping to train prisoners and keeping printing costs with in the prison services.

Bounce Back

London

Sector: Construction

The Bounce Back Project is a UK-based charity and social enterprise dedicated to training and employing ex-offenders.

By offering "Through the Gate" support, it helps individuals transition from prison into sustainable employment, working closely with construction partners and running a dedicated painting and decorating enterprise to reduce reoffending.

Business in the Community

London

Sector: Charity

Business in the Community is the UK's largest and longest-established responsible business network, championing sustainability, inclusion, and growth that benefits both business and society.

It brings companies together to lead responsibly, collaborate for systemic change, and take action locally and nationally to build a fairer, greener, and more resilient future.

Care After Combat

Nationwide

Sector: Rehabilitation

Care After Combat's mission is to ensure the wellbeing of veterans and their families through a comprehensive and empathetic approach.

From their headquarters in Newark, they coordinate operations throughout England and Wales, leveraging a robust network of volunteer mentors to deliver essential assistance.

Catch 22

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

Catch22 designs and delivers services that build resilience and aspiration in people of all ages and within communities across the UK.

They work with young people and adults providing intervention, rehabilitation and victim services in prison and in the community.

Their offender management and rehabilitation services focus on building strong relationships with service users, providing long-term support to promote positive outcomes and reduce reoffending.

Their approach in custody and for those on community sentences focuses on assessing risks and needs and establishing a personalised action plan, building high-quality relationships with service users and partners, recruiting volunteer mentors to support their work (including peer mentoring for people with convictions), and working closely with The Probation Service, Police and other criminal justice and rehabilitation agencies.

Change Grow Live

Nationwide

Sector: Rehabilitation

Offer: Mentoring and Coaching, Personal Support (Addiction, Mental Health, Housing and Debt Advice), Employment Preparation

Change Grow Live is a health and social care charity.

It provides free and confidential treatment, support and information about drug and alcohol use, smoking, homelessness, justice and probation, and employment.

Changing Tunes

Nationwide

Sector: Charity and Social Enterprise

Offer: Creative Enrichment

Changing Tunes uses the power of music to help people lead crime-free lives that are meaningful and creative

They facilitate music-making programmes in Alternative Provision Schools, Secure Children's Homes, Young Offender Institutions, Prisons and Post-Release. They also run a record label that supports the career development of talented music artists who have been in prison, or who are are the edges of the system.

They help participants to develop 'human and social capital' outcomes that support desistance from crime, like improved self-esteem, resilience, mental health and belonging.

Their participant re-offending rate over the past 3 years is 5%, compared to the national rate at 48%

CIPD Trust

Nationwide

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

At the CIPD Trust, they believe that when you put people first, everyone benefits. By tackling barriers to work and building inclusive workplaces, they help individuals unlock their potential and support organisations to thrive.

Through their 160,000-strong community of CIPD people professionals, they connect expertise in HR, Learning and Development with those who need it most, driving opportunity, diversity and better work for all.

Clean Sheet

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

Clean Sheet is a charity with one simple purpose – to offer people with convictions the hope of a better future by finding sustainable employment. Their work is about helping people with convictions to find jobs, start to rebuild their lives and as a result, reduce reoffending.

They provide a remote employment support service, supporting men and women for up to three years to find work.

Clean Slate

North East

Sector: Recruitment

Clean Slate is an winning charity empowering new beginnings in Teesside and North Yorkshire, supporting people with a past conviction into paid employment.

Its team provides mentored support to candidates who are stable, ready, and committed to finding employment. Their approach is focused on transparency and kindness, ensuring when it advocates on behalf of their candidates, they have the best opportunity of succeeding.

Clean Slate believes that providing ex-offenders a pathway into meaningful and sustainable employment is essential to enable them to leave the past behind and become contributing members of society.

Clinks

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

Offer: Policy and Campaigning

Clinks is the national infrastructure charity dedicated to supporting voluntary organisations working with people in the criminal justice system and their families. They support, promote, and advocate for their members and the wider voluntary sector across England and Wales.

Clinks supports, promotes and advocates for the voluntary sector working with people in the criminal justice system and their families. Their vision is of a vibrant, independent and resilient voluntary sector that enables people to transform their lives.

Coaching Inside and Out

Nationwide

Sector: Personal Development

Since 2010 the charity has inspired hope and sustainable change in men, women and children to help them improve their lives and the lives of others by offering coaching inside prison and in communities.

They work with individuals, their families and staff who support them, including in schools.

Code 4000

Nationwide

Sector: Education

Code4000 is a free, flexible 12-week course aimed at equipping women facing barriers to work with the core skills for a career in tech.

Coming Home

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

Coming Home provides education and tools to support people in custody on their reintegration into society. Created by Francesca Barker-Mills, it provides a safe space, where women can access tailored support, specific to the lived experience and needs of what comes after prison.

Community Led Initiatives

North East

Sector: Personal Development

Through their dedicated support services, peer-led mentoring, and practical and emotional support, Community Led Initiatives helps people who have experienced the criminal justice system, addiction, homelessness, and mental ill-health, recognise their potential as individuals, build their self-worth, their self-esteem and achieve their aspirations.

Coracle Inside

Nationwide

Sector: Education

Coracle is an e-learning business on a mission to ensure no-one is isolated from learning opportunities. The company started providing digital systems that enable those working at sea to study and gain qualifications without internet access.

But Coracle founder, James Tweed, was interested in the role of education in reducing crime, reoffending and inequality. Prisoners have no internet access and limited education opportunities – meaning most are released with few skills and no CV. So, the team adapted the system and created Coracle Inside, an offline virtual learning environment, allowing inmates to use laptops and safely access content offline from organisations such as The Open University and Prison Education Trust.

Coracle has been awarded the prestigious King's Award for Promoting Opportunity through Social Mobility.

Corbett Network

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

Offer: Policy and Campaigning

The Corbett Network for Prisoner Re-Integration is a coalition of charities, social enterprises, CICs, non-profit organisations and businesses with a social mission who work with those in prison and after release.

These decision-makers are dedicated to reducing re-offending by helping people with convictions find and keep a job. Members also offer mentoring, coaching, training, and on-going support.

Doing What Really Matters

North West

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Offer: Employment Preparation, Education, Training

Doing What Really Matters empowers people through Education, Employability and Engagement to create Cultures of Acceptance. It envisions a future where prison experience drives positive change.

Dominic Headley Assoicates

Nationwide

Sector: Recruitment

Offer: Support for Employers

DHA are workplace innovators that believe safeguarding and inclusion should not be competing interests.

Elite Project Services

London

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Elite Project Services is deeply committed to making a positive impact through its “On the Right Track" (OTRT) program, an initiative that runs accredited rail awareness courses in several HM Prisons across the South-East of England. This program is designed to equip individuals with essential skills and qualifications that can pave the way for careers in the rail and construction sectors upon their release.

Employment 4 All

Nationwide

Sector: Recruitment

Employment 4 ALL is a not-for-profit social purpose organisation founded from humble beginnings in 2021, dedicated to challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to social mobility. They believe that everyone deserves a dignified life and the opportunity for rewarding work.

Enterpreneurs Unlocked

Nationwide

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Entrepreneurs Unlocked CIC is a social enterprise, their mission is to create pathways for individuals on society's margins to thrive through entrepreneurship. They work primarily with those in custody, on probation, and recently released from prison, offering them the tools, support, and resources to develop their talents, build their own businesses, and contribute positively to their communities. Their commitment to social justice and reducing reoffending drives them to make self-employment a viable, first-choice option for those who need it most. For many people whose career prospects may be limited due to their criminal record entrepreneurship and self-employment could be the best pathway. In addition, by working with veterans, refugees, disabled entrepreneurs, young people who are NEET or at risk of becoming NEET and others facing significant barriers to employment, Entrepreneurs Unlocked aims to empower the most disadvantaged individuals in society, offering a chance for financial independence and a crime-free future. Their vision is to expand this impact, with plans to launch digital resources for all UK prisons and to establish new community-based business hubs.

Entrepreneurs  Unlocked CIC

North West

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Entrepreneurs Unlocked CIC is a Social Enterprise that creates pathways for individuals on society's margins to thrive through entrepreneurship.

They work primarily with those in custody, on probation, and recently released from prison, offering them the tools, support, and resources to develop their talents, build their own businesses, and contribute positively to their communities. Their commitment to social justice and reducing reoffending drives them to make self-employment a viable, first-choice option for those who need it most.

Ex-Seed Recruitment

Midlands

Sector: Recruitment

Ex-seed™ is an employment agency which places ex-offenders into stable employment and supports them to enjoy crime-free and fulfilling lives.

Fine Cell Work

Nationwide

Sector: Social Enterprise

Fine Cell Work enables people in prison to redefine themselves, inspiring and empowering them as they strive to rebuild their lives and non-criminal identities. There are no other charities or organisations providing paid, professional, high-quality craft opportunities to people in prison. Since 1997, they have been helping people to see what they are capable of, offering them hope for a different future, through the medium of needlework.

Footprints Project

Midlands

Sector: Personal Development

Their core mission is to reduce re-offending and build safer communities by encouraging self-worth, hope, and a sense of belonging in those affected by the criminal justice system.

Forward Assist

North West

Sector: Rehabilitation

Forward Assist was founded by Tony Wright in 2013. Over the past thirteen years the charity has become a strong voice advocating for a holistic, compassionate continuum of services, treatment and care for their service members, veterans, families, care givers and care providers. Forward Assist facilitate 'lived experience' consultation sessions and share their findings to raise awareness, focus outreach support and promote strategic partnerships that streamline and improve access to veteran centric support and health care providers. Based in the North East of England, but with a geographical footprint across the UK. Forward Assist has moved the professional practice dial forward and developed unique services that foster Post Traumatic Growth.

Freedom Bakery

Scotland

Sector: Bakery

Its story started back in 2015, with a mission to bake the best bread in the world while supporting prisoners to find a new passion & purpose upon their release.

From these humble beginnings, one of Glasgow's favourite bakeries was born.

Give A Book

Nationwide

Sector: Education

Give a Book is a charity dedicated to promoting books and the pleasure of reading in the hardest places. Their main work is in prisons, schools and with disadvantaged children. They see again and again how reading changes people's lives.

Goodwill Solutions

Midlands

Sector: Social Enterprise

Since 2008, Goodwill Solutions have been transforming lives through work.

A smart, flexible supply chain business, it offers world-class logistics services whilst delivering positive social impact. It strives to create better futures through education, work and successful business practice.

Grow Transform Belong

Nationwide

Sector: Rehabilitation

Grow Transform Belong is a Community Interest Company that strives to serve the community by providing services that empower people and organisations, to grow and connect.

They host events and campaigns to raise awareness around issues linked with social justice. They connect like-minded people and organisations, to fuel power for positive change. They deliver Growth Projects across educational and criminal justice sectors, which focus on transforming organisational culture and addressing organisational challenges. Justice 2.0 is a global movement of compassion, courage, and transformation in the justice system, where every person is empowered to grow, heal, and contribute to their communities.

They see a world where justice is centered on humanity and Growth, driven by connection, and fueled by collective resilience. They are building a future where every individual's potential is realised, harm is prevented, and communities flourish in peace and equity.

HMPasties

North West

Sector: Bakery

HMPasties was born from a desire to break the cycle of re-offending by offering real work opportunities to ex-offenders.

Its founder, who has worked closely with individuals leaving prison, recognised that meaningful employment is key to successful rehabilitation. With this vision, they set up shop and began baking high-quality products while providing support and skills development to those who needed it most.

Today, they supply pies, pasties, and sausage rolls across the North West of England. Their team is made up of passionate people, many of whom have overcome difficult pasts to build positive futures. They're proud to be proof that businesses can do good while delivering great products.

In2Out

Midlands

Sector: Charity

In2Out is a registered charity that aims to reduce reoffending among young people aged 15-21 through our mentoring and resettlement process. They believe that each young person leaving prison deserves the opportunity to get their life 'back on track' and turn away from offending behaviour.

Working out of HMYOI Wetherby in West Yorkshire most of the young people they work with come from all over the North and Midlands of England. They have helped them to resettle into society after release and move toward independent living. They have brought reconciliation into families, order into chaotic lives and a sense of hope for the future. And they have made this happen by showing them individually that someone cares.

In2Out does not try to replace the role or function of other statutory service providers or other charitable endeavours, put provides post-release support in collaboration with others - primarily with youth offending teams and probation services, along with statutory services and local authorities. They also collaborate with several other charities to ensure that they avoid duplication of work and wasted costs, and share best practice through the sector.

Ingeus

Nationwide

Sector: Rehabilitation

Offer: Employment Preparation, Mentoring and Coaching, Personal Support (Addiction, Mental Health, Housing and Debt Advice), Training

Ingeus justice services support people in the justice system to successfully transition back into the community through specialist rehabilitative services.

Their services offer a whole-person approach, supporting people with their personal wellbeing, accommodation, health, education and training, employment, and more. They deliver services on behalf of Ministry of Justice, His Majesty's Probation Service, and Prisons; leading local supply chains and partner networks to deliver targeted, personalised support.

They have extensive experience of delivering services to people in the criminal justice system and, as the lead partner in the Reducing Re-offending Partnership (RRP), managing two Community Rehabilitation Companies, they helped more than 50,000 people.

Their award-winning teams and comprehensive evidence base gives them a unique insight into what works, and they constantly challenge their thinking to improve outcomes for people on their rehabilitation journey.

Inside Academy

Nationwide

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

The Inside Academy delivers modern, enterprising business courses for people facing the most complex barriers to employment. It is born from and led by lived experience – built by and for people affected by the criminal justice system.

Inside Connections

North West

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Offer: Employment Preparation, Mentoring and Coaching, Training

A CIC dedicated to creating opportunities and brighter futures for individuals facing barriers to employment.

Their work focuses on supporting those in or exiting custody, care leavers, veterans, and the long-term unemployed through training, mentorship, and meaningful career pathways.

Inside Out

South East

Sector: Charity and Social Enterprise

Inside Out is a social enterprise and rehabilitation program dedicated to helping young prison leavers. Supported by partners like LinkedIn, they provide employability training, mentorship, and creative arts education.

Inside Out Wales

Wales

Sector: Personal Development

Inside Out Support Wales supports people to take control of their own futures. They focus on strengths, not deficits, and believe in people's capacity to grow and thrive.

I AM IN ME CIC

South East

Sector: Personal Development

I AM IN ME is a charitable organisation supporting young people to reach their full potential. They are an intervention specialist, bridging the gap between the institutions and those who are at risk, or have already been excluded to prepare them to be re-integrated into mainstream environments through their work

They support each step of a young person's transformation through group workshops and tailored one-to-one support—both short and long-term—focused on personal development and future career guidance.

Junction 42

Nationwide

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Junction 42 was founded in 2012 by a team with over 45 years of collective experience working with offenders in prisons and communities. Its aim is simple: to see the lives of offenders and their communities visibly transformed through support, empowerment, and opportunity.

They empower individuals to take control of their lives and become active contributors to their communities. Their innovative employability programme focuses on empowering individuals to set and achieve their goals, increasing their motivation for job-seeking, creating an impressive CV, and engaging in meaningful voluntary work. They strongly believe that employment is the gateway to a purposeful life, inclusive society, and a stable, crime-free future.

At their job clubs, they offer participants an offense disclosure workshop that features inspiring stories of successfully employed ex-offenders who have rebuilt their lives. They also provide essential training on how to disclose convictions during an interview setting, equipping participants with the skills and confidence to move forward. Whilst their intensive 1:2:1 mentoring programme, delivered through the gate, provides invaluable support during the critical first few months post-release. Their mentors are committed to guiding and empowering their mentees towards meaningful employment, ensuring they can achieve stability and build a brighter future.

Developed in partnership with Young Enterprise, their 'Kingsman' programme, is an entrepreneurial training programme that spans two weeks within the prison. It aims to cultivate entrepreneurial mindsets through a series of interactive pop-up business challenges, where offenders have the opportunity to create and pitch their unique business ideas to a panel of seasoned executives.

Key4Life

Sector: Charity

Key4Life is 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.

The charity's rehabilitation programmes help the young men to build resilience and release negative behaviours through a powerful blend of music, football, equine therapy, NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) and emotional release sessions.

The charity partners with a number of high profile companies and organisations, representative of a variety of industries, including construction, media, music, finance, hospitality and IT.

The work of Key4Life is also supported by its partnerships with local government, prison and probation services, community organisations and funders.

Kinetic

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

Kinetic is a national youth work charity offering youth work services and support for young people in UK schools and prisons.

Focusing on personal development and empowerment, Kinetic ensures young people have the resources they need to thrive, promoting growth, well-being, and opportunities for success. They meet young people where they are, based on their individual needs, using youth work methodologies, offering a safe space for dialogical work through fun, interactive, and participatory activities.

They support young people to gain skills, knowledge, and learning to help them navigate the challenges of transitioning into adulthood.

Koestler Trust

Nationwide

Sector: Education

Koestler Arts runs the UK's largest awards and exhibitions programme recognising creative work by people in secure settings.

Each year, thousands of entries are sent into the Koestler Awards from people in prisons, young offender institutions, secure hospitals, immigration centres, on community sentences and probation. Creative experts and volunteers review the work, provide feedback to entrants and select pieces for awards, publication and exhibitions. Selected works are then shared with audiences across the UK.

Konnect

South West

Sector: Personal Development

Established in 2014, Konnect offers 1-to-1 client-focused mentoring and support for young people and adults across Cornwall and Devon at a point of vulnerability.

Their approach is person-centred and non-judgemental; they see the person, not just the pieces. They work with people experiencing multiple barriers and complex needs.

They provide practical support and advice with the following areas: health and wellbeing; financial concerns; criminal justice issues; risk of homelessness; education, employment and training; and substance misuse.

Landworks

South West

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

LandWorks is an award-winning resettlement charity providing a supported route back into employment and the community for people in prison or at risk of going to prison.

Lincolnshire Action Trust

North East

Sector: Rehabilitation

Since 2000, Lincolnshire Action Trust has worked in Lincolnshire and the surrounding areas to reconnect individuals involved in the criminal justice system with their communities.

Their work is focused on the care, resettlement and rehabilitation of individuals involved in the criminal justice system and those at risk of offending, as well as the welfare of their families and dependants. They aim to provide training opportunities and key life skills to individuals, helping to find work and somewhere to live, and provide the support necessary to continue their rehabilitation.

LAT has a long history of successfully working in prisons to support individuals throughout their custodial sentence or period on remand. Their services follow a person-centred, strengths-based approach to ensure individuals feel equipped to make best use of their time in prison and have realistic plans in place for their resettlement.

Their teams see prisoners from their early days in prison, through to their release.

Luminary Bakery

London

Sector: Bakery

Luminary Bakery is an award winning social enterprise empowering London's most disadvantaged women to thrive.

It uses baking as a tool to guide women towards employability and independence. Over our two-year programme, women learn to bake, gain a catering qualification and develop transferable skills such as budgeting, interview techniques and resilience. Women gain valuable work experience through Luminary Bakery as well as being paired with a volunteer mentor who helps her develop her career next steps.

However, their programme goes far beyond job skills. They offer access to highly-trained counsellors, providing up to 16 weeks of therapy, and each woman is supported by a dedicated Progression Support Worker to help her navigate the broader challenges she will face including housing and debt.

Meee

Nationwide

Sector: Education

Meee is a UK-based organisation dedicated to human-centered change. They help individuals, businesses, and educational institutions build confidence, resilience, and better mental wellbeing through strategic programs, workshops, and creative tools like LEGO® Serious Play. Meee bridges the Gap Between "Stuck" and "Hired." Traditional employability training focuses on the CV. They focus on the human behind it. They help the long-term unemployed and those in the justice system rebuild the confidence to work, grow, and give back.

Nacro

London

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

For 60 years, Nacro has been helping people build brighter futures. They've helped hundreds of thousands of people to overcome barriers, rebuild their lives, and take the next step forward.

They provide practical help and personalised support through their education, housing, justice and health and wellbeing services. They work closely with people to help them build independence and to move forward to a better future. They use the insights from our services and the experience of the people they support to campaign together for meaningful changes in society.

New Futures Network

Nationwide

Sector: Public sector

New Futures Network are a specialist part of HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) which attracts and supports employers to work with prisons in England and Wales.

They also assist prisons to create the systems and infrastructure that will result in more prison leavers securing employment, including guidance such as the Employment on release policy framework.

Newground

Nationwide

Sector: Social Enterprise

Offer: Employment, Training

Newground is a B-Corp that makes coffee with conviction.

They believe coffee can go beyond the cup and can be used as a catalyst for change. This is why they use their industry to create work and training opportunities for ex-offenders across the UK, giving some of the most overlooked people in society a new beginning.

NO Going Back

South East

Sector: Recruitment

No Going Back (NGB) is part of a Livery Companies collaboration to reduce re-offending.

A rehabilitation programme, it delivers a range of workshops in prisons through its volunteering network and offers 1-2-1 support to candidates through their journey, preparing them for release and a wide range of job opportunities including those within its Social Enterprise NGB CLEAN.

To date the programme has had 43 participating Livery Companies, over 200 volunteers and over 3400 candidates that have benefited.

No Limits (Next Steps)

South West

Sector: Rehabilitation

Offer: Personal Support (Addiction, Mental Health, Housing and Debt Advice), Mentoring and Coaching

No Limits is an award-winning, local, independent charity providing a unique combination of prevention, early intervention and crisis support to young people, based on a nationally evidenced model.

It provides information, advice, counselling and support through a range of services available 'under one roof'. It meets the needs of the most deprived, vulnerable and isolated young people who often don't access mainstream services. By supporting across a wide range of issues including sexual health, relationships, mental health, housing, debt and employment, it supports young people through the transition from adolescence to adulthood, often helping them climb out of, or avoid, social exclusion.

Novus

North West

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Offer: Education, Employment Preparation, Training

For over two decades, Novus has been delivering education, training and employment opportunities to adults and young people in UK prisons.

They aim to improve lives and economic success, as well as reduce reoffending rates, through learning and skills-training.

They provide interventions that reduce reoffending and divert people from criminal behaviour, allowing them to make a positive contribution to society.

Offploy

North West

Sector: Recruitment

Offer: Recruitment, Support for Employers

Offploy strives to improve employment outcomes for people with convictions.
They offer practical tools, training and support for employers.

One Small Thing

London

Sector: Rehabilitation

Offer: Personal Support, Policy and Campaigning

One Small Thing's vision is a justice system that can recognise, understand, and respond to trauma.

Its mission is to redesign the justice system for women and their children, which has led them to open their residential community in Hope Street. It also facilitate trauma-informed and gender-responsive programmes for the justice and community sectors.

Only Connect

London

Sector: Charity

Offer: Creative Enrichment

Only Connect is London's creative criminal justice charity, rooted in community. Its vision is a more connected, human and just society, where we all choose a crime free life.

The focus of their work is innovation to reduce re-offending. They work with Londoners aged 16+ with recent experience of the justice system, equipping them with the necessary skills, attributes and positive networks to develop and pursue their life goals without harm.

They work in prisons, across youth justice and through their unique Membership centres to deliver projects that build relationships, grow skills and cut crime. Their Membership model offers one single, seamless relationship from custody to community and into future prospects.

Onward Lives

North West

Sector: Rehabilitation

Onward Lives works with people who have faced significant challenges — including offending, homelessness, unemployment, food poverty and social exclusion — and connects them to the support, skills and opportunities they need to move forward.

Their rehabilitation, residential support, food redistribution and training services, helps people build independence, access opportunities and create lasting change in their communities.

Onwards and Upwards

Nationwide

Sector: Social Enterprise

Offer: Employment

Onwards and Upwards works to free ex-offenders from the cycle of reoffending by unlocking jobs that change lives for good.

Their aim is to bring employment rates up and reoffending rates down, by creating trusted brands and small businesses proving that employing ex-offenders makes good business sense. They believe that not every offence should lead to a life sentence.

Open Book

South East

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Open Book is a widening participation initiative run at Goldsmiths, University of London. It is a hub for education, support and research, aiming to make teaching and learning, at any level, open and accessible to everyone. They provide free open access classes in a range of subjects, along with skills training, pastoral support and a qualification route into University.

Own Merit

Midlands

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Founded in 2021 by Darryn Frost and Steve Gallant, Own Merit CIC began with a mission to address the prison-leaver homelessness crisis safely and cost-effectively. Its methodology is simple. It creates a safe home and a support community so that each person can feel settled and secure. Then it works with them to identify their skills, abilities and hopes for the future. The team at Own Merit assist them by setting goals and supporting them throughout. Ultimately, they aim for each resident to move on confident and equipped to live an independent and fulfilling life. The hybrid approach offered by Own Merit is evidence-based and resident-led. Research into several unique resettlement programmes inspired the model. Own Merit takes learning from various projects and direct input from residents. The first hybrid "Supportive Living" home was launched in the heart of Northampton, where Own Merit provides the foundation and tools for success. Residents manage the household democratically and are expected to commit to the programme, embrace the community-led approach, and work towards their future while supporting fellow residents in doing the same.

P3

Midlands

Sector: Charity and Social Enterprise

P3 is a charity and social enterprise which aims to improve lives and communities by delivering services for socially excluded and vulnerable people to unlock their potential and open up new possibilities.

PACT

South West

Sector: Rehabilitation

Pact is a pioneering national charity that supports prisoners, people with convictions, and their children and families. They are the leading Catholic charity working in the criminal justice system. They provide caring and life-changing services at every stage of the justice process: in court, in prison, on release, and in the community. Pact's vision is of a society that understands justice as a process of restoration and healing, that uses prisons sparingly and as places of learning and rehabilitation, and that values the innate dignity and worth of every human being. They work for the common good of society, taking a public health-based approach. Their volunteers and staff support people in courts, prisons, probation services, and communities across England and Wales. They build effective partnerships and sustainable solutions based on their well-established understanding of the systems in which they work and the historic values and ethos they have developed through their 120+ years of service delivery.

Pecan

London

Sector: Charity

Pecan is a charity based in Peckham that tackles poverty in Southwark by restoring dignity, belonging and belief through their connected community services that address food insecurity, unemployment and isolation.

PoetsIn

Nationwide

Sector: Rehabilitation

PoetsIN is The Creative Mental Health Charity created by Paul and Sammie, two individuals who have lived-experience of mental ill-health diagnoses stretching back to childhood and a shared experience of coping with their symptoms to keep them safe.

It was this shared experience that motivated Paul and Sammie to utilise their creative coping and management strategies to give others a voice and help them on their journey to recovery and health. They provide mental health and wellbeing support services through a variety of creative mental health programmes, designed specifically to help those struggling with mental illness by providing tools to reduce the symptoms of mental illness.

Prison Opticians Trust

South East

Sector: Optics

The Prison Opticians Trust was co-founded by Tanjit Dosanjh OBE and Dr Amandeep Sappal, who studied Optometry together at City University, London.

Since 2016, The Trust has been dedicated to providing training in optics to prisoners, helping them gain valuable skills and secure employment within the optics industry upon their release.

Initially, they trained both female and male prisoners on day release in Maidstone, Kent. However, in response to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, they transitioned their training programs behind prison walls in 2022. This enabled them to train male offenders in both a Category B and Category C prison.

Their course lasts approximately 10 weeks and prepares trainees for work as an Optical Assistant. At the end of the programme, trainees receive an accredited Level 2 Qualification in Supporting Optical Retail. During the 10 weeks of training they observe trainees to determine whether they would make good employees. They only recommend those trainees who they are confident will be an asset to an employer.

Prison Reform Trust

Nationwide

Sector: Education

The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) is an independent UK charity working to create a just, humane and effective penal system. It was founded in 1981 to inform and influence public debate on prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners, amidst concerns about a projected prison population of 48,000 by 1984. The charity remains as important to civic society today as it was then.

Prisoners’ Education Trust

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

Prisoners' Education Trust (PET) works to transform the lives of people in prison through learning. They use their research and expertise to improve prison education and show policymakers and the public the impact it can have.

They offer distance learning courses, advice and guidance to people in prison. They help 1,600 people each year, giving them the skills to build brighter futures. They offer distance learning courses, advice and guidance to people in prison.

Starting in HMP Wandsworth in 1989, they now fund courses in every prison in England and Wales. They have a team of 20 staff members, supported by trustees and PET alumni.

Project REMAKE

London

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Offer: Employment Preparation, Mentoring and Coaching, Training

Project ReMake is a simple entrepreneurship training programme for formerly incarcerated people. The 12 week programme teaches basic business skills, helping them to build, launch and sustain self-employed businesses.

The project was inspired by a similar programme in the US, operated by Stanford University – Project ReMADE.

The UK programme is following much of the same style and features of the US Stanford Programme, but is independent of it. It works alongside universities to convey their ethos of support, learning, camaraderie, and motivation. Very few of its participants have attended university; this course allows them to become part of the university community and be mentored by students and business mentors.

Radical Recruit

Nationwide

Sector: Recruitment

Radical Recruit strives to get people with barriers to work into secure employment and regain control of their futures.

They're changing the way employers view people with barriers to work such as homelessness, being an ex-offender, a care leaver or part of any other marginalised section of society.

They help businesses to design and meet CSR and Diversity & Inclusion pledges so that it's more than just a tick-box: they'll get increased productivity, more innovative thinking and a more cohesive workforce. They're fighting back against the status quo and doing things the Radical way.

Raw Workshop

Midlands

Sector: Charity and Social Enterprise

Offer: Employment

RAW Workshop are Europe's largest social enterprise designing, manufacturing and sourcing high quality indoor and outdoor commercial furniture. They also operate RAW Harvesting, providing class leading, sustainable, circular economy services maximising furniture re-use.

They believe that business should be a force for good and they employ a remarkable workforce, many of whom have walked life's toughest paths. They also operate their own youth work charity, RAW Potential, supporting over 150 young people a year towards better futures.

Rebuild With Hope

North West

Sector: Rehabilitation

Offer: Employment Preparation, Personal Support, Training, Mentoring and Coaching

Rebuild with hope is a charity founded on the vision of supporting individuals who face significant barriers to employment and reintegration into society.

Their work began with a focus on helping ex-offenders rebuild their lives by providing training, skills development, and support to successfully re-enter the workforce and their communities.

Over time, their mission expanded to include others facing obstacles such as long-term unemployment, disabilities, or limited access to education. They mentor and support ex-offenders into work and accommodation helping them re-integrate into the outside world. This continued support post-release is reducing re-offending and reducing victims in the community.

Recycling Lives

North West

Sector: Recycling and Waste Management

Offer: Employment

Recycling Lives Services secures WEEE from local authorities and other sources which Onward Lives coordinates the recycling of in HMP Academies around the UK. These academies pay prisoners an enhanced wage, engage them in meaningful work and support them to develop skills, confidence and resilience.

Their partnership also helps run their ROTL (Release on Temporary License) programme where participants reaching the end of their sentence can work in recycling operations. This again provides meaningful work, skills and is a critical step to securing full time employment on release.

All their services to men and women are backed up by wrap around support delivered by the charity which helps with mental health problems, maintaining abstinence and working with statutory service

Redemption Roasters

South East

Sector: Social Enterprise

Founded in 2016, Redemption Roasters is a social enterprise that reduces reoffending through coffee. With eleven shops around London, they train prison leavers and people at risk of offending with the skills they need to gain secure and meaningful employment.

At their barista academies inside HMP High Down, HMP Wandsworth, HMP Downview and HMP Wormwood Scrubs, their trainers teach prison residents all the skills they need to become coffee masters. At the end of the course, all learners are assessed on their theoretical and practical knowledge and awarded a grade. Their community training extends their reach beyond prison walls to train prison leavers and individuals identified 'at risk of offending' with the skills needed to work in coffee and beyond.

They have a community barista academy located in their King's Cross HQ with two bespoke training rooms and high spec kit to give their Participants the best start as baristas. Their community trainer also provides training to prison leavers outside of our HQ.

From December 2025, they will be roasting all their social impact coffee at their new Wembley roastery. The move will enable them to roast more coffee, employ more prison leavers, and extend their mission to reduce reoffending through coffee.

Not only do they train prison leavers and people at risk of offending with the skills they need for a career, they then work to place them in a suitable role either in one of their coffee shops. If placed at one of their shops, their Participants work alongside their team of highly skilled baristas and managers. They support sustainable employment, through weekly check-ins with their internal caseworkers, and providing an ongoing package of support across wellbeing, developmental, financial and legal support.

Reed in Partnership

Nationwide

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

CFO Evolution is a voluntary programme designed to help offenders prepare to leave custody and successfully reintegrate within the community.

Reed in Partnership is providing the service for HMPPS CFO in London, together with their delivery partner Shaw Trust. Custodial site delivery is provided by Shaw Trust, while Community site delivery is provided by Reed in Partnership and associated specialist partners. The programme provides offenders with complex needs with clearly defined progression routes spanning both the custodial and community components of their total sentence.

Participants have access to safe spaces where they can engage in a range of positive activities designed to foster community buy-in, increase wellbeing and develop the skills required to achieve successful community reintegration.

Responsible Business Initiative for Justice

Nationwide

Sector: Recruitment

Offer: Support for Employers

The Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ) is an award-winning international nonprofit that empowers companies to champion policy reforms and hiring solutions that promote public safety, deliver justice, and strengthen communities.

It empowers businesses to use their influence to move critical criminal justice reform initiatives in partnership with local leaders.

They equip employers to create career opportunities that help people rebuild their lives after justice involvement — or prevent it in the first place.

They help companies leverage their platforms to build and entrench the narrative that a fair justice system and inclusive workforce are good for business.

Rethink Mental Illness

Nationwide

Sector: Rehabilitation

Rethink Mental Illness provides life-changing services, shaped by real experiences - from housing and employment, to peer support.

RIFT Social Enterprise

Nationwide

Sector: Social Enterprise

Offer: Employment

RIFT Social Enterprise is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to building brighter futures. They design and deliver specialist programmes that support people into self-employment, training, and work. Every project they run is shaped in partnership with those they support, ensuring it reflects real needs and makes lasting impact.

With years of experience supporting people into self-employment, they've developed proven tools and guidance that make the journey achievable. Their accredited workbook, digital tools, and one-to-one support build confidence, unlock potential, and provide a real-world route into business.

They are a trusted partner on the DWP Restart Scheme and work closely with prisons, probation services and local authorities to make sure no one is left behind.

RISE Mutual

Nationwide

Sector: Personal Development

RISE Mutual is a Community Interest Company dedicated to designing and delivering innovative solutions that transform lives.

It delivers behavioural change work with people who cause harm in intimate partner relationships and within families, including specialist services for children and young people, as well as early-intervention justice pathways, such as Out of Court Resolutions. It also provides training and consultancy to help organisations prevent and address unhealthy and harmful behaviours.

Supporting victim-survivors is at the heart of everything it does. Its work is driven by a commitment to safer lives, stronger families, and thriving communities.

RMF Construction 

Midlands

Sector: Construction

Offer: Employment

RMF Construction Training Academy provides training and employment opportunities to socially underrepresented candidates including, but not limited to: ex-offenders, ex-military, long-term unemployed & the homeless.

RMF have provided training within16 HM Prisons and have achieved employment outcomes for numerous candidates whilst on ROTL and upon release.

Second Start

Nationwide

Sector: Recruitment

Second Start helps people with convictions transform their lives through work, and employers to fill in-demand roles with loyal talent. They provide job-matching, in-work mentoring, and opportunity for justice leavers and forward-thinking employers.

Motivated individuals with past convictions represent an untapped pool of ambitious talent. Ready to contribute, grow, and deliver lasting value to forward-thinking employers.

Shannon Trust

Nationwide

Sector: Education

Offer: Education

Shannon Trust is a charity that works across all prisons in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to train and inspire people in prison who can read and are numerical to teach those who can't. For thousands of people in prison, and in the community, learning to read and understand basic numeracy can completely transform their life.



Each year, they help thousands of people in prison to learn, so that they can build a different, more positive future for themselves and their families. They also work in partnership with organisations in the community to offer reading and numeracy support to those who are caught in the criminal justice system.

Sheriffs and Recorders Fund

London

Sector: Rehabilitation

The Sheriffs' & Recorder's Fund is a London-based charity supporting the rehabilitation of prison leavers and their families through individual grants and prison-based rehabilitation projects. It has been supporting London's prison leavers since 1808.

They believe that every person deserves a second chance and they are committed to the rehabilitation of prison leavers and the welfare of their families, to help them stop offending and start a new life.

Based at the Old Bailey, the Fund works closely with the Probation Service to ensure the grants reach those most in need. Increasingly, they also collaborate with other charities to deliver education and training programmes in prison focused on rehabilitation.

Shift UK

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

SHiFT does whatever it takes to set children and young people up for safe and bright futures. It is dedicated to doing whatever it takes to break the destructive cycle of crime.

They know how to work differently with children caught in cycles of harm. They're embedding that approach deep into the systems around them so it becomes impossible to ignore and impossible to undo.

Sing Inside

London

Sector: Charity and Social Enterprise

Sing Inside has been delivering workshops in prisons for over 10 years. They work with 18 prisons across England. It has a small part-time staff team that works with prison staff to plan the workshops and ensure smooth delivery. They recruit trained community music leaders to deliver high-quality singing workshops that are inclusive. They support everyone to sing regardless of experience, to learn new skills and enjoy singing well-known songs. They recruit volunteers from the local community to join the workshops to encourage participants and build positive connections.

Skillcert

Nationwide

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Skillcert are an approved independent education and training provider delivering government funded apprenticeships across England.

Social Pantry

South East

Sector: Social Enterprise

Social Pantry delivers extraordinary events, extraordinary service and extraordinary food, while creating meaningful change.

They are an independent, B Corp-accredited caterer, meeting the highest social and environmental standards – ensuring their food feels as good as it tastes. That commitment means going the extra mile not just for their clients, but behind the scenes too. They challenge the status quo in their kitchens and create meaningful employment opportunities for prison leavers.

Their work has been formally recognised with a King's Award for Enterprise for Promoting Social Mobility, one of the UK's most prestigious honours. This purpose-led, detail-driven approach informs everything they do. From exquisite canapés and cocktails to opulent long-table banquets, live cooking stations and immersive fine-dining experiences, their bespoke, innovative menus bring the most ambitious events to life, delivering luxury that never compromises on sustainability.

Whether it's workplace catering for London businesses, Luxury catering for London weddings, or catering for corporate & private events throughout the UK, Social Pantry crafts standout experiences defined by creativity, precision, and purpose.

Sova

Nationwide

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Sova is best known for providing strength-based mentoring to support adult and young offenders, either on release from custody or in the community. Also falling under this work stream is specialised support for offenders, including specialist employment support.

Their experience shows that tailored employment support is a vital step towards entering or re-entering the labour market and is particularly important to reducing recidivism rates amongst young and adult offenders. All their offender employment projects work holistically with individuals to support them with issues that affect their behaviour and stop them from finding work. This means that they tackle issues such as managing money, addressing drug and alcohol problems or managing family relationships. They also support people to reduce the barriers to finding work by developing good relationships with local employers and setting up work experience and volunteering.

Spark Inside

London

Sector: Rehabilitation

Spark Inside is an award-winning charity that has transformed the lives of over 2,000 people living and working in our prisons.

It has pioneered coaching in prisons, showing the value of coaching to change lives and systems. In the next decade, they set out to make coaching available to anyone who wants it in the justice system.

St Giles Trust

South East

Sector: Rehabilitation

Offer: Mentoring and Coaching, Personal Support (Addiction, Mental Health, Housing and Debt Advice), Employment Preparation

The St Giles Trust helps people impacted by poverty, violence & exploitation and the justice system to build a positive future.

They are the right people, in the right place, at the right time to ensure people can build their own pathway to positively progress their lives. They do this because we believe everybody should have the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

StandOut

South East

Sector: Personal Development

StandOut is an award-winning charity that empowers people to make positive change, realise their potential, and rebuild their lives after prison.

Their unique programme begins in prison with coaching and practical support and continues after release, for as long as someone needs us.

Steps2Recovery

London

Sector: Rehabilitation

Step2Recovery is a residential rehabilitation charity that improves the lives of those leaving the Criminal Justice system whose lives have been devastated by addiction. It provides therapeutic and practical support through its intensive 12-week program — blending clinical treatment, group therapy, step work and therapeutic support — its clients move from crisis to stability and, ultimately, to long-term recovery, breaking the cycle of addiction, homelessness and re offending. Its team of qualified counsellors, mentors and volunteers provide a safe, supportive therapeutic environment to support its clients to improve the quality of their lives and fulfil their potential without the use drugs or alcohol.

STRETCH Charity

Nationwide

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Offer: Creative Enrichment

Stretch delivers a variety of innovative and bespoke projects, enhancing the rehabilitation and education of marginalized communities.

They strongly believe in the benefits of cultural education in engaging into society those that have suffered social exclusion and fallen through the welfare net.

They aim to facilitate confidence and life-skills through the creative arts, access to culture and new technology. They work mainly with the offending community and young people who are at risk of offending.

Switchback

London

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Switchback is a London based prison rehabilitation charity. It supports young men to find a way out of the justice system and build a stable, rewarding life they can be proud of.

Switchback Trainees are five times less likely to return to custody. Through consistent, motivational relationships with a Switchback Mentor on both sides of the prison gate, they support young Londoners to change their relationship with society.

Switchback's model was established in 2008 on the premise that it is often not the lack of opportunity, but rather a lack of confidence, knowledge and continuity of support that prevents prison-leavers from overcoming challenges and realising their options.

When working with Trainees, Switchback models stability amid the chaos. Through a consistent, long-term relationship and real work training, they enable Switchback Trainees to make a profound change in how they think about and participate in society.

Synergy Theatre Project

South East

Sector: Theatre

Offer: Creative Enrichment

Founded over 20 years ago, Synergy creates ground-breaking work across theatre and the criminal justice system. They believe that theatre can be transformative, change perceptions, and open up new possibilities towards a more positive future.

Their programme of artistic work harnesses the energy and life experiences of those they work with – prisoners, ex-prisoners, young offenders, and young people at risk of offending – gives them a voice and, in doing so, their dignity back. Synergy wants to inspire change by capturing the imagination and affecting the feelings, behaviours and attitudes of participants and public, whilst doing its part to influence the arts and criminal justice sectors towards systemic change.

Tap Social

South East

Sector: Hospitality

Offer: Employment

Tap Social is a social enterprise that brews, bakes, and creates inclusive community hospitality venues to help turn lives around for prisoners and prison leavers through direct employment and advocacy.

To date they have created more than 112,000 hours of paid employment for prisoners on day release from prison (Release On Temporary Licence) and prison leavers.

Having a job helps to build self-confidence and resilience, and leaves people better equipped to lead a productive and happy life. This in turn reduces reoffending and prevents victimisation.

Tempus Novo

North West

Sector: Recruitment

Offer: Support for Employers, Recruitment

Tempus Novo has two unique strengths; its understanding and direct links into the British prison system, but most importantly, its people.

Its model relies on the bespoke and personal service offered to all service-users and employment partners by its passionate and dedicated team.

Together, the team provides sustainable employment that helps to change lives and society as a whole.

The Chrysalis Programme

Nationwide

Sector: Personal Development

The Chrysalis Programme aims to stimulate participants' thinking, attitude, social capability and capacity, enabling them to think more positively, creating self-esteem, self-belief, self-confidence, self-motivation and hope.

The Programme is applied through interactive modular sessions. These modules are learner focused, and mentors support those on the programme. The aim is to re-ignite thinking by revealing what to do instead of what not to do. It is both innovative and unique.

The Clink Charity

South East

Sector: Hospitality

Offer: Employment

The Clink Charity is a national rehabilitation charity, providing training opportunities and rehabilitation support to two groups: people in prison and those who could be at risk of offending. Through their training projects inside and outside of prisons, they create an environment where students can develop new skills, interact with the public and access the support they need to successfully reintegrate into society on release.

They operate restaurants that are open to the public, training kitchens within prisons, horticulture programmes in prison gardens, an events catering social enterprise, a premium catering delivery service and an artisan bakery.

The Forward Trust

London

Sector: Charity

The Forward Trust is a social justice charity that supports people to recover from addiction or leave behind crime, helping them move on in life with family, friends, jobs, homes, and a sense of belonging.

Established in 1991, it provides services across England and Wales in both prison and community settings, supporting thousands of individuals every year.

The Glasshouse

South East

Sector: Charity and Social Enterprise

The Glasshouse is a social enterprise offering second chances through horticultural training to women based in UK prisons. They harness the power of botanics to make work and living spaces greener, healthier and more inviting.

It is the only not-for-profit plant installation provider in the UK. Their team of ex-offenders grow, propagate and prepare their plants as they work towards a recognised horticulture qualification. Upon release, they aim to provide employment or place them in industry jobs and provide support for housing needs. They have an experienced, talented team working alongside their ex-offender team to ensure the highest quality and consistency of service.

The Hardman Trust

Nationwide

Sector: Rehabilitation

Each year over 2000 people are released from prison after serving long sentences.

The Hardman Directory offers specialist, personalised support to help people on long sentences thrive both in prison, and when they return home.

The Longford Trust

Nationwide

Sector: Education

The Longford Trust is about second chances for people who have been in prison.

Since it started in 2005, The Longford Scholarship programme has supported close to 600 young people, most of them in their 20s, to rebuild their lives through education after serving a prison sentence.

85% go to university, graduate and move forward thanks to their employability project to have careers, to settle down, and to start families. In short, they do all the “normal" things that most take for granted and The Longford Trust work with them to make that happen.

The Oswin Project

North East

Sector: Construction

Since 2014, the Oswin Project has been breaking the cycle of reoffending by providing people with criminal records the skills, support, and opportunities they need to build positive futures in the North East of England.

They transform lives through mentoring, training and meaningful employment.

The Reasons Why Foundation

London

Sector: Personal Development

The RWF is a Community Interest Company that has been providing Life Changing mentoring support, since 2012, to people affected by their involvement with the Criminal Justice System here in the UK.

Their support is both emotional and practical and is available to people in the community and 'through-the-gate' for people leaving custody, throughout the London area. They also run behavioural change programmes, helping people involved in crime to make better decisions and reduce the number of people who re-offend, improving lives, lowering crime rates and reducing the cost to the tax payer.

They know that people will only change if they want to. They listen in order to understand the reasons that people offend in the first place, then provide help to enable them to create new lives, free from the anxieties of their past.

The Right Course

Nationwide

Sector: Hospitality

The Right Course seeks to transform staff restaurants in prisons into high street-like operations/businesses using existing facilities and equipment. Their training restaurants are run by prisoners, gaining industry-recognised qualifications and experience. Upon release, they work to secure our graduates jobs in the hospitality sector.

Devised by Fred Sirieix and Simon Sheehan, The Right Course started as a pilot at HMP/YOI Isis, a category C prison for male offenders. It brings an industry-led approach to rehabilitation that turns prisoners into hospitality professionals. It is driven by the concept that hospitality is about always giving first and generously. Reaping the rewards will come as a consequence of self-belief, hard work and discipline.

The Skill Mill

Nationwide

Sector: Charity and Social Enterprise

The Skill Mill is a multi-award-winning social enterprise providing employment for young ex–offenders, aged between sixteen and eighteen, in watercourse and horticulture services.

They employ only ex-offenders, actively reducing reoffending whilst increasing engagement, participation, employability and educational levels of the young people to increase their life chances. They are supported by an Advisory Board of representatives from the public, private and voluntary sectors. It is this partnership which makes the Skill Mill unique and brings significant added value.

The Recruitment Junction

North East

Sector: Recruitment

Offer: Recruitment, Support for Employers, Employment Preparation

The Recruitment Junction opened its doors in autumn 2020 as the first recruitment agency in the north east for people with convictions. There are many initiatives up and down the country offering a range of services to people with convictions, including employability support. There are very few organisations, however, focusing solely on placing people with convictions into paid work, as recruitment agencies. None of these has a national footprint, nor reaches the north east. The Recruitment Junction is the first specialist recruitment business of its kind in the region.

The Recruitment Junction aims to see people with convictions rediscover a sense of purpose through work and become role models who drive positive generational impact across their families. It addresses skills shortages for employers across the north east, combats persistent regional unemployment, and contributes to a national reduction in re-offending.Contact Beverley Brooks, Founder-Director via beverley.brooks@therecruitmentjunction.com

THIS - The Horticulture Industry Scheme CIC

North East

Sector: Charity and Social Enterprise

Offer: Employment Preparation, Employment, Training

The Horticulture Industry Scheme (THIS) is an award-winning social enterprise, based in Thetford and Stowmarket. Their workforce comprises people with barriers to employment – returning citizens (prison leavers), people who have experienced homelessness, mental health challenges and/or addiction.

THIS provides grounds and garden maintenance services in the areas local to Thetford and Stowmarket, mostly for local businesses but also for private homes.

Trailblazers Mentoring

Nationwide

Sector: Personal Development

Trailblazers is a UK charity which provides 1:1 mentorship and practical support to people in prison and post release. Their goals are to prevent reoffending and improve outcomes for those leaving prison. Their work inspires and encourages people to change their future, rebuild their lives and make a positive impact on their community.

Transform Justice

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

Transform Justice uses research and evidence to show how the system works and what needs to change - then they persuade politicians and policy makers to make those changes.

Transform Justice's vision is a fair, open, and compassionate justice system. They look towards a future in which there is less crime and fewer people come into contact with the criminal justice system.

They believe that evidence about what works to reduce crime and prevent reoffending should be at the heart of policy decisions and embedded in practice by those working in the criminal justice sector.

Trinity Fencing CIC

South East

Sector: Construction

With over 30 years experience in fencing, decking and landscaping, Trinity Fencing was formed as a Community Interest Company, which exists to serve the interests of the community.

They provide Commercial and Residential, Fencing, Landscaping and Tree-Surgery, to the highest level, whilst also serving the community by supporting young ex-offenders, those at risk of offending, those with learning challenges, long term unemployed, homeless, with poor mental health and those with low skills.

They do this through their Apprenticeship or their 8-week paid Training and Work Placement Program.

Turnaround Project

Nationwide

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

The Turnaround Project enables people who have served sentences to turn around their futures.

Their transitional employment opportunities help reduce barriers to employment. Their coaching model helps people plan their new futures. And their volunteering programme is building shared, supportive communities. Offering training and employment experience before people complete their sentences, and a more supportive working environment afterwards,

The Turnaround Project, provides real-work opportunities for people during a crucial period of transition in their lives.

Unlock

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

Offer: Policy and Campaigning

Unlock is a national independent advocacy charity that supports, speaks up and campaigns for people facing stigma, prejudice and discrimination because of their criminal record.

Its mission is to advocate for people with criminal records to be able to move on positively in their lives. They support people with criminal records to navigate their way through challenging times; research and raise awareness of the systemic issues that people are facing; and campaign for changes to legislation, policies and practices of government, employers and others.

Unlocked Grads

Nationwide

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Unlocked Graduates exists to break cycles of reoffending.

They recruit, train and challenge outstanding individuals to lead change in prisons and throughout society, with the aim of creating a generation of leaders committed to radically improving outcomes for prisoners.

Welcome Directory

Nationwide

Sector: Charity and Social Enterprise

The Welcome Directory lists faith and belief communities, from across the nation, all willing and able to welcome and support people leaving prison.

At The Welcome Directory the team believes that everybody deserves to belong. Their mission is to build a network of faith or belief communities across England and Wales with the capacity to offer appropriate and safe welcome for supporting people leaving prison.

They promote inclusivity and challenge the stigma and discrimination faced by the prison leaver community, working to ensure that nobody steps beyond the prison gates isolated and alone.

Willowdene Farm

Midlands

Sector: Rehabilitation

For more than 30 years, Willowdene has been a pioneer of innovative rehabilitative solutions for men and women facing the complex issues that stem from a life filled with factors including offending behaviour, homelessness, poor mental health, substance misuse, and general disconnection from community and society at large.

Through their innovative rehabilitative pathway, targeted training, wrap-around support and social enterprise activities, they provide men and women facing a life filled with hopelessness an opportunity to take control of their future and build a life filled with purpose, intent and confidence.

Working Chance

Nationwide

Sector: Charity

Working Chance is the Uk's only employment charity solely for women with criminal convictions.

It helps women with convictions to develop the confidence, skills and self-belief they need to overcome any barriers to their employment, find jobs and build careers. It works with organisations of all sizes across all sectors to find opportunities for women that align with their skills and aspirations.

Since 2009, Working Chance has supported thousands of women into employment and many more on their journeys towards financial independence. To women with convictions, a job is more than an income - it means a future where she and her family can flourish.

​Bthechange

South West

Sector: Education, Training and Employment Services

Offer: Policy and Campaigning

Bthechange CIC was founded in 2016 after recognising significant and persistent gaps within the criminal justice system that were having long-term negative impacts — particularly for women, first-time entrants, and those who are racially minoritised.

At key points of contact with the system, support was often delayed, fragmented, or entirely absent. Early intervention was limited, community-based provision was undervalued, and responses frequently failed to account for trauma, culture, or lived context.

As a result, many individuals left the system carrying stigma, instability, and unresolved harm, making it far harder to move forward with their lives. bthechange was established in response to this reality, grounded in the belief that meaningful change requires early, consistent, and community-led support. Without authentic, trauma-informed and culturally informed interventions, the likelihood of long-term exclusion, repeat contact with the system, and entrenched disadvantage remains high.

All services and programmes are designed — and in many cases delivered — by expert leaders whose lived realities directly shape the organisation's ethos, culture, and values. This ensures that work is rooted in relevance, credibility, and a deep understanding of how systems operate in practice, not just in policy.