Organisation | Location | Project | Grant |
Bucks Association for the Care of Offenders (BACO) | South East | To support prison leavers with the transition to community life by providing essential items and access to training. | £3,000 |
Changing Tunes | South West | To help expand the in-person music and performance services for prisoners and former offenders. | £2,000 |
Clean Sheet | England | To help former prisoners into sustainable employment or training by linking with supportive employers. | £2,000 |
Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE) | Scotland | To help fund support for prisoners from HMP Grampian including training in warehouse skills and help with housing, benefits and mental health. | £3,000 |
Elizabeth Fry Charity | South | To help fund an outreach programme for vulnerable women leaving HMP Reading. | £2,000 |
Freedom Support Network | South East | To support the costs of ‘Envision Anew’ – a project that works with, and advocates for, BAME women prison-leavers. | £2,000 |
Landworks | South West | To help fund prisoners learn transferable skills (landscaping, gardening, woodwork) in a supportive environment. | £2,000 |
Liberty Choir | 9 prisons | To support the costs of running singing workshops and concerts in prisons and community choirs for prison leavers. | £2,000 |
Lifecycle UK | Southwest | To help fund BikeBack, a programme offering training in bike mechanics and work placements to prisoners. | £2,500 |
New Bridge | England and Wales | To help fund a volunteer befriending programme for the most vulnerable prisoners. | £2,000 |
Next Chapter Scotland SCIO | Scotland | To fund core costs of a charity that breaks down the discrimination faced by former offenders in Scotland. | £3,000 |
One 25 | Southwest | To help fund the criminal justice casework which provides advice and advocacy for women prisoners | £2,500 |
Prodigal Arts | South West | To expand a programme of take its visual arts workshops in prison settings. | £2,000 |
Safer Living Foundation | Midlands | To work with prisoners most likely to commit sexual crimes after release. | £2,000 |
SOFA Project | South West | To support job training for prisoners and ex-offenders | £2,000 |
Step Together | North West | To support a volunteer peer mentoring programme working with women who have been involved with the CJS. | £2,000 |
Street Doctors | | To expand a project that trains young prisoners in first aid at HMP Hindley. | £4,000 |
Unlock | UK | To help fund a volunteer-led helpline giving advice to ex-offenders who face barriers to employment and housing. | £3,000 |
| | Total of 18 grants | £43,000 |