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Community Chaplaincy Association |
| The Community Chaplaincy Association’s mission is to support and facilitate the development of a united network of local Community Chaplaincies. Our members are local Community Chaplaincy projects across the UK. Associate membership is offered to other organisations with similar aims (subject to membership criteria). |
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Concord Prison Trust |
| Established as a Charitable Trust in August 2004, we originally began our work in 1999 as a not-for-profit consultancy providing counselling skills courses for inmates at HM Prisons. We are dedicated not only to prison education but also to providing a path to rehabilitation through self knowledge. Our courses teach inmates a skill which could, with further training, lead to a career on release and also insight and self-awareness, making them question the path their lives have taken. You can write to them at The Old School House, 7 Sandy Road, London NW3 7EY or email s.kinglassman@concordprisontrust.org.uk |
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Feltham Community Chaplaincy Trust |
| Feltham Community Chaplaincy Trust is a multi-faith organisation in which people of different faiths work together to help young offenders rebuild their lives. We were the first Community Chaplaincy Project in the UK to work with Young People leaving prison. The Community Chaplaincy Team are always keen to hear from you. So if you would like more information about our work or want to get involved in some way please do get in touch. Office telephone number: 020 8844 5585 |
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Fresh Start New Beginning |
| Fresh Start New Beginnings is a Shrewsbury and Telford Community Chaplaincy Project. It offers a variety of resources and support to assist offenders with resettling before and after their release from custody. |
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From the Flames |
| Compassionately helping ex-offenders and their families make sense of traumatic, difficult or sad events in their lives so that they recover emotionally and move forwards with renewed energy and lasting positivity. Telephone and Skype facilities available for consultation and treatment sessions. A free consultation of up to 20-minutes and reduced session costs available to UNLOCK members. Total confidentiality assured. Call T: 07894 442396 or e-mail: from-the-flames@hotmail.co.uk |
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Futures Unlocked |
| We provide trained staff (both employed and voluntary) to assist offenders, families of offenders and those subject to community orders with their resettlement needs. This is provided through a range of support from specialist staff, advocates, mentors, and befrienders. |
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Gatemate |
| This ‘GateMate’ campaign is a third sector initiative which in partnership aims to reduce re-offending by adopting the only integrated approach to mentoring services. The campaign is founded by The Prince’s Trust, Clinks, The Mentoring & Befriending Foundation, St Giles Trust and Catch 22. |
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Lifelines UK |
| LifeLines began in 1988 when its founder Mr. Jan Arriens – a Quaker – watched a BBC documentary, Fourteen Days in May. Jan was so moved by the words of the condemned prisoners who were interviewed, and by the dignity of the man who was to be executed, Edward Earl Johnson, that he wrote to three of the prisoners. They all replied, saying how much his letter had meant to them and how pleased they were to have their voices heard beyond the prison walls. LifeLines supports and befriends prisoners on Death Row in the United States, through letter writing. There are at present about 50 women and 3500 men on Death Row in the US. They spend many years awaiting execution. Almost invariably the prisoners are from poor backgrounds, suffered abuse in childhood and received bad legal representation. The conditions in which they are held are harsh and dehumanising. Many are abandoned by their family and friends and have very little, if any, contact with the outside world. Consequently, letters can be a very real lifeline to them. |
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Mentoring and Befriending Foundation |
| The Mentoring and Befriending Foundation aims to ensure that mentoring and befriending are at the centre of current and future national volunteering strategies. |
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Muslim Young Offenders Mentoring Programme |
| Muslim Youth Helpline (MYH), Business in the Community (BITC) and Mosaic are launching a new project to provide focused support and mentoring opportunities to Muslim prisoners around the vulnerable period of transition from prison back to society. |
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New Bridge Befriending Service |
| New Bridge Befriending Service - New Bridge volunteers befriend people in prison who are lonely, depressed or angry, and who want a listening ear. Volunteers promise to maintain contact with their client throughout their sentence |
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Newbridge Foundation |
| New Bridge offers a wide range of programmes to help prisoners keep in touch with the outside world and prepare themselves to rejoin it. Our original and keynote service remains the friendship and support given by our 203 volunteers to longer-term prisoners, especially those no longer in contact with family and friends. Every volunteer knows his or her prisoner client as an individual with their own personality, problems and potential and values them as such. The relationship cannot otherwise work. |
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Prisoners Penfiends |
| Do you know a prisoner who doesn’t have anybody to write to, feels lonely or just needs somebody to befriend and support them? Well, maybe Prisoners Penfriends can help. Prisoners’ Penfriends is a scheme which makes it possible for you to get to know a new person through the post. Email gwyn.morgan@prisonerspenfriends.org |
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Samaritans |
| Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day, for people who are worried, upset, confused, dispairing or suicidal. Phone 08457 90 90 90 or e-mail jo@samaritans.org. For any questions about the Samaritans Listener scheme, contact Samaritans, The Upper Mill, Kingston Road, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 2AF or email admin@samaritans.org. |
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SOVA |
| SOVA works to strengthen communities by involving local volunteers in promoting social inclusion and reducing crime. They develop a range of programmes for disadvantaged young people including young offenders. |
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St Giles Trust |
| We enable people to get back into the workforce - through both paid and voluntary positions - through providing comprehensive employability training. We can help source job placements in a range of sectors with on-the-job training. This team can also assist prison leavers returning to the London area who are looking for work through their links with local employers. |
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Sussex Pathways |
| Sussex Pathways is a social mentoring scheme training and supporting volunteers to empower offenders to make positive life choices, by supporting their resettlement in the community. Sussex Pathways eases the transition from custody to the community. Sussex Pathways gives offenders a reason to live rather than exist. |
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The Dialogue Trust |
| The Dialogue Trust works with prisoners, institutions, victims and the community to reduce re-offending, promote rehabilitation and heal society through the use of dialogue. |
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The Footprints Project |
| Footprints is a charity that mentors men and women leaving prison and returning to Dorset, Bournemouth, Poole, and south Somerset. We help our clients to help themselves to re-integrate back into their local community, to re-build family relationships, to get their lives in order and to help them to make a Mentoring ex offenderscontribution to society without re-offending. |
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