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Growing Futures UK was founded in 2013 by Desmond Brown to work with disadvantaged communities in Bristol, the South West and beyond. In 2016 Growing Futures UK became a C.I.C. with Beaula McCalla coming on board as a director. So from the directors to mentors its staff are trained and DBS checked along side yearly training in safeguarding. Its board, trustees and staff are committed to providing bespoke and tailored programmes, resources and educational opportunities for our communities. Growing Futures UK works with schools, learning providers and community groups.

Evidence-Based Justice Lab is a research group funded by UK Research and Innovation conducting work at the intersection of data science, psychology, and law, with a focus on the criminal justice system. It gathers data on various aspects of the criminal justice system (e.g. guilty pleas, jury decision-making, use of evidence) to examine how these aspects of the system are operating (or are likely to be operating) in practice. Evidence-Based Justice Lab does this through gathering qualitative and quantitative data both from real cases and from experimental work.

LandWorks is an independent charity based in South Devon that provides a supported route into employment and the community for people in prison, or at risk of going to prison.

Shekinah provides supports people experiencing homelessness, drug and alcohol issues, offending behaviours or mental ill health. Shekinah’s Make Amends service provides restorative justice to people affected by crime, conflict, anti-social behaviour or harms caused by others.

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.

Infobuzz offers therapeutic and practical support for families and young people with complex needs.

Footprints reduces reoffending and builds safer communities in Hampshire and Dorset by helping ex-prisoners and people serving community sentences to reintegrate into the community.

Abandofbrothers works with young men involved in the criminal justice system, providing them with the support they need to make the transition to an adulthood free of crime, and filled with a sense of belonging, connection and purpose.