Partners

Redemption Roasters

Redemption Roasters is a social enterprise committed to reducing reoffending through coffee, by creating meaningful employment opportunities for individuals with lived experience of the criminal justice system. We run intensive training programs both in custody and in the community, providing through the gate contact and wraparound support. Redemption Roasters empowers people to build skills, restore confidence, and break cycles of reoffending. Our ethos is that profit powers purpose, proving that business can be a force for rehabilitation, inclusion, and positive social change.

Food Behind Bars

We work with prisons across England & Wales on the subject of food, to improve the lives of those eating it and support the people making it. Our aim is to positively impact the health and wellbeing of prisoners, by delivering practical food-based education, promoting healthy eating and designing exciting food and drink initiatives. We know that good food in prison can create a happier, healthier prison system, with rehabilitation at its heart. This is the backbone of what we do.

One Small Thing

One Small Thing is a charity working to redesign the justice system. Our name reflects the value of small acts – empathy, compassion, respect – and their combined power to make a big difference to the individual – and to society as a whole. Our vision is a justice system that can recognise, understand, and respond to trauma. Our mission is to redesign the justice system for women and their children.

We want a compassionate system that recognises the vicious cycle of trauma and disadvantage at the root of justice involvement and allows people to recover from trauma and thrive. Our core focus is on women and their children because of the additional discrimination and disadvantage they face.

Prison Reading Groups (part of Give a Book)

Give a Book is a charity committed to promoting books and reading in some of the most challenging environments in the UK. We work extensively in prisons and with disadvantaged children, offering targeted programmes that foster a love of reading, enhance literacy skills, and strengthen vital social bonds. Central to our mission is the belief that to “give a book” is to offer a lasting gift — one that encourages personal transformation and connection. Our biggest project is Prison Reading Groups which sets up, funds and supports informal groups to encourage connection, challenge and change. We currently work with over 70 groups in more than 50 prisons nationwide. We welcome Unlocked Graduates on placement and we have worked closely with UG officers on projects inside. Their feedback speaks for itself: ‘The reading group has been one of the highlights of my work…there aren’t many activities that the men will jump out of bed to come join but I was always met with enthusiasm when I unlocked for the sessions.’

Onwards & Upwards / XO Bikes / XO Barbers

We want to free ex-offenders from the cycle of reoffending by creating jobs that change lives for good. Our aim is to bring employment rates up and reoffending rates down.

By creating trusted brands and Small, Beautiful and Loud Businesses, we mean to prove that employing ex-offenders makes business sense, so shifting attitudes towards employing them.

Not every offence should lead to a life sentence.

Training on the inside, employment on the outside and pastoral support on all sides.

Recycling Lives

Recycling Lives Charity gives ex-offenders the support, skills and opportunities they need to change their lives.

It works to remove the barriers and challenge the misconceptions that so often prevent people from achieving and sustaining positive change.

Working within 10+ prisons and communities across the North West, Midlands and Yorkshire, the Charity offers opportunities to progress into employment through training, work placements and paid work.

Understanding that people require tailored wrap-around support too, it also offers supported accommodation, specialist mental health help, and peer-to-peer support, and supports people to access health services and housing, manage finances, form positive relationships, and grow in confidence.

Its person-centred, wrap-around approach works. Less than 5% of its participants reoffend while around 70% move into paid employment with a few months of release.

Prisoners’ Education Trust

At PET we believe that everyone in prison, wherever they are and whatever their background, should have access to education.

We work with prisons in England and Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man to offer distance learning courses and related advice and guidance to people in prison.

We offer 130 different courses including GCSEs and A-levels, Open University Access modules, and a wide range of professional courses. We help around 1,500 learners each year to study, giving them the skills and qualifications to build brighter futures.

We also use our policy and advocacy work to improve prison education and show prisons, policymakers, and the public the impact education can have – not just for people in prison, but also their families and wider society.

Rebelution

Rebelution is a UK-based social enterprise dedicated to rewriting the narrative of rehabilitation for people impacted by the criminal justice system. Built on lived experience, faith, and a deep belief in human potential, Rebelution challenges broken systems and creates practical pathways to lasting change. Through purpose-driven enterprise, personalised advocacy, and powerful storytelling, we help people leaving prison rebuild their lives with confidence, skills, and opportunity. Our work turns second chances into lasting change by offering meaningful employment, accredited training, compassionate support, and platforms that break stigma and inspire hope.

Spark Inside

Spark Inside is a charity established in 2012. We believe in the transformative power of coaching to unlock the full potential of individuals in the criminal justice system, to encourage rehabilitation and reduce reoffending.

Our Hero’s Journey programme pioneered bringing structured life coaching to young people aged 15-25, in prison and through-the-gates, and we utilise systems coaching to bring together prisoners and staff in prisons to drive culture change. Our vision is one where the futures of people in contact with the criminal justice system are determined by their potential, not their past. You can find out more about the impact of our coaching programmes at www.sparkinside.org