Young Offenders |
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| Name of Organisation | Funding Criteria | Where the organisation is based | Grant Made Towards | Grant Made |
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| African Positive Outlook | Young Offenders | Kingston Upon Thames | This grant was made towards the costs of running workshops for young ex-offenders and those at risk of offending in the London Borough of Kingston. The courses give young people strategies, self confidence and motivation to help them avoid committing crime. Costs included salary, volunteers' expenses and workshop materials. | £5,000.00 |
| Asian Social & Humanitarian Association | Young Offenders | London | This grant was made towards organising counselling, advice and information sessions for young offenders. These enable young offenders to discuss issues which affect their lives and push them towards crime. Costs included sessional fees and volunteers' expenses. | £4,900.00 |
| Banooda Aid Foundation | Young Offenders | London | This grant was made towards engaging young Somali offenders in London, helping them to re-define their lives through sports activities. Costs included equipment, travel and volunteers' expenses. | £5,000.00 |
| Body of Christ Church | Young Offenders | London | This grant was made towards the costs of running a mentoring programme for young African offenders living in the London Borough of Hackney. Costs included mentors' recruitment and training costs, volunteers expenses and course materials. | £4,100.00 |
| Catalyst Urban Trust | Young Offenders | London | This grant was made towards the sessional costs of a community mentoring project for young offenders in Hackney and Islington, which included supervising existing coaches and recruiting and training further coaches. | £4,914.00 |
| Challenge & Adventure | Young Offenders | Shorwell | This grant was made towards supporting disadvantaged young people through the Duke of Edinburgh's Award - including those who are likely to offend or re-offend. Costs included training for staff and volunteers, and travel. | £5,000.00 |
| Challenge for Youth | Young Offenders | Belfast | This grant was made towards the costs of enabling 10 young people to access the 'Time for Change' programme - a residential course aiding young offenders. | £5,000.00 |
| Cleveland Housing Advice Centre | Young Offenders | Middlesbrough | This grant was made towards the training and support of young people at risk of offending and young prisoners due to leave prison. Activities included advice, counselling, guidance, action planning and CV preparation. | £5,000.00 |
| Community Relief Project | Young Offenders | London | This grant was made towards the running costs for a 6 month Saturday school to teach basic literacy and other skills to young offenders released from detention centres, and those at risk of offending. Costs included equipment and volunteers' expenses. | £4,967.00 |
| Croydon Youth Development Trust | Young Offenders | Croydon | This grant was made towards replacement of 5 x Apple Mac computers for a music studio programme used by various agencies eg PRUs, YOT, supervision surveillance. | £4,848.00 |
| Diversity Hub | Young Offenders | Leicester | This grants was made towards the costs of providing training for young offenders and staff costs for supporting them in anti-bullying and conflict resolution skills. Costs included sessional hours, workshop fees and materials. | £4,785.00 |
| Dyslexia Association of Staffordshire | Young Offenders | Newcastle under Lyme | This grant was made towards the costs of providing screening tests for young offenders to determine dyslexia indicators. Dyslexia has been shown to lead to a lack of confidence, isolation and negative behaviour. | £3,944.00 |
| Golden Opportunity Youth Association | Young Offenders | Southall | This grant was made towards the sessional fees for youth workers, working with young people on a crime and drugs diversion project. The programme brings together a number of agencies and young people from different ethnic backgrounds who are at risk of committing crime and anti-social behaviour. | £2,000.00 |
| Gorgie City Farm Association | Young Offenders | Edinburgh | This grant was made towards the salary costs for the Out of Bounds Project, which is aimed at isolated and hard to reach young people, many of whom are involved with the Youth Justice Services. | £5,000.00 |
| Guildford Action for Community Care | Young Offenders | Guildford | This grant was made towards the provision of training in furniture restoration for young people who are in danger of becoming involved in crime. The organisation provides affordable furniture to vulnerable people and those on low incomes. Costs included equipment, supervision and training. | £5,000.00 |
| Hewa Bora Community Development | Young Offenders | London | This grant was made towards a skills employment project to help 18 identified young BME offenders/ex-offenders. Costs included trainers' fees, job club expenses and venue costs. | £5,000.00 |
| InfoBuzz Ltd | Young Offenders | Gloucester | This grant was made towards funding enrichment sessions for female juvenile offenders at the Mary Carpenter Unit at HMP Eastwood Park . These sessions enabled young offenders to develop social skills and confidence. | £5,000.00 |
| Ledbury Youth First | Young Offenders | Ledbury | This grant was made towards the provision of a weekly street-work programme for young people who are offending or have been identified as being at risk of offending. The organisation works with Connexions and the Youth Offending Service. Costs included salaries and materials. | £4,275.00 |
| Mitchemp Trust | Young Offenders | Swindon | This grant was made towards the provision of a residential programme of challenging activities for 10 young people involved in anti-social behaviour and at risk of offending. Costs included fees for instructors, accommodation and project materials. | £5,000.00 |
| Mustard Tree | Young Offenders | Manchester | This grant was made towards travel costs for young offenders enabling them to access training provided by the charity. Young offenders and those at risk are able to gain access to a variety of skills, including IT, numeracy, debt counselling and general living skills. | £5,000.00 |
| Partners In Advocacy | Young Offenders | Edinburgh | This grant was made towards the salary costs of the Young Person's Advocacy Co-ordinator. This organisation provides a new professional advocacy service for children and young people involved in offending behaviour, and children from a criminal background. | £5,000.00 |
| Refugee Advice Group | Young Offenders | Birmingham | This grant was made towards assisting young people leaving custody with housing, employment and training. the project work in collaboration with the Birmingham Careers Guidance, Birmingham Drug Education Project, Birmingham Youth Service and the Refugee Council. Costs included salary, volunteers 'expenses and training materials. | £4,990.00 |
| Seachange Arts | Young Offenders | Great Yarmouth | This grant was made towards the costs involved in delivering a programme of creative activities for young people at risk of offending and ex-offenders, which enables them to develop life skills. Costs included sessional fees and materials. | £5,000.00 |
| Somali Employment and Training Project | Young Offenders | This grant was made towards offering Somali young ex-offenders, living in Tower Hamlets and Hackney, a literacy and numeracy programme. Costs included sessional fees, venue hire and course materials. | £4,500.00 | |
| The Adventure Help and Opportunity for Youth Centre | Young Offenders | London | This grant was made towards youth group activities and accredited training in sailing for young offenders and young people at risk of offending. Costs included salaries, general running costs and certificates. | £4,000.00 |
| The Hub Project Ltd | Young Offenders | Dagenham | This grant was made towards purchasing materials to build a hovercraft - a project training young offenders and those at risk of offending. | £4,513.00 |
| The Irene Taylor Trust Music in Prisons | Young Offenders | London | This grant was made towards the costs of delivering intensive, creative music projects in four young offender institutes. The grant covered part of the Project Worker's fees. | £4,858.00 |
| The Magdalen Project | Young Offenders | Chard | This grant was made towards the salary costs for the farm manager who supervises young offenders who are on work placements at this environmental/educational charity. | £4,194.00 |
| The SMASH Youth Project | Young Offenders | Swindon | This grant was made towards the costs of running an arts workshop for young ex-offenders and those at risk of offending. The young people, who offered constructive and meaningful opportunities to develop new skills. Costs included artists' fees and workshop materials. | £4,770.00 |
| The Source Young People's Charity | Young Offenders | Aldershot | This grant was made towards the general costs of running a mentoring programme for young people who have been or who are likely to be in trouble with the police. | £5,000.00 |
| The Theatre in Prisons & Probation Centre | Young Offenders | Manchester | This grant was made towards the costs of running weekly workshops, using radio drama, for young parents in prison who are separated from their children. Costs included Project Worker's fees and equipment. | £5,000.00 |
| The Wilderness Foundation UK | Young Offenders | Chelmsford | This grant was made towards the costs of providing a nature based programme for young offenders and vulnerable and disadvantaged youth in mid-Essex. The programme includes skills workshops to identify specific educational needs. Costs included staff salaries, admin and equipment. | £5,000.00 |
| Warrington Wolves Foundation | Young Offenders | Warrington | This grant was made towards the salary for a qualified sports leader coach to run courses over 2 years in Thorn Cross Young Offenders Institute. Pogrammes include Rugby League Leaders award, touch rugby course and basic skills in refereeing. Courses provided a range of skills including communication, confidence and responsibility. | £3,780.00 |
| West Belfast Parent Youth Support Group | Young Offenders | Belfast | This grant was made towards salary costs for staff working with young people who are or have been involved in criminal activities. The project provided a tailored personal development programme for each young person, including social and life skills and education about drugs and alcohol awareness. | £4,500.00 |
| Youthreach Greenwich | Young Offenders | London | This grant was made towards the development of a pilot scheme to train and support counsellors who would provide a therapeutic service for young people aged 11-17 who are at risk of offending or re-offending. Costs included volunteer training and expenses. | £4,950.00 |