During 2007 - 8 The Bromley Trust grants included:

Action for Prisoners families (APF)
www.actionpf.org.uk
APF is the national organisation representing the needs of prisoners’ families. APF advocates on their behalf, influences policy, publishes unique information and resources and helps to develop and improve services for this vulnerable group. APF also runs a Priosners’ Families Helpline in conjunction with Ormiston Trust.
The Bromley Trust grant £10,000 unrestricted

The Butler Trust
www.thebutlertrust.org.uk
The Butler trust promotes excellence and innovation in UK prisons by making annual awards for innovative, creative and effective work by prison officers, teachers, probation officers and other staff and volunteers working in prison.
The Bromley Trust grant - £3000
(See also The Keith Bromley Awards)

Clean Break Theatre Company
www.cleanbreak.org.uk
Works with women offenders, women prisoners
and women at risk of offending due to drug or alcohol use or mental health needs. Uses theatre and the arts to develop skills, confidence and qualifications leading to further education, training or employment. Works in women’s prisons and with women prisoners on pre-release programmes, preparing to make the often difficult transition from prison to the community.
The Bromley Trust grant £10,000 Unrestricted

The Clink
In 2009 The Clink will open its doors at HMP HIgh Dow, serving gourmet and wholesome food to prison staff, visitors and the public, the end result of a visionary and unique educational programme. Rather than offering prisoners an opportunity to raise their sights unrealistically, The Clink offers every inductee the chance to gain outstanding catering qualifications, valuable experience within an exciting and accountable business and guidance to a full time job upon release. The Bromley Trust is supporting the work as part of our focus on prisoners working with catering.
The Bromley Trust grant - £30,000

Deptford Churches Centre
www.deptfordcc.co.uk
Through partnership working DCC provides community placements, employment to ex-offenders & prisoners on licence, education, training, job search, advice, access to health care, tenancy support/sustainment, resettlement, counselling, activities to promote social inclusion, mental & physical wellbeing to vulnerable people.
The Bromley Trust grant - £15,000

Hardman Trust
http://www.hardmantrust.org.uk
Provides awards for prisoners who have a clear idea of what they want to do when they are released in order for them to undertake some specific training or purchase the necessary tools.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000
For the publication of a Prisoner Funder Directory.
Restricted grant - £5,000
(See also The Keith Bromley Awards)

Howard League-Barbed Graphic Design Studio
www.barbed.org.uk
‘Real Work’ project at HMP Cordingly.  Prisoners apply and are interviewed for their jobs, receive ‘normal’ employment rights, minimum wage, holiday, pension and undertake normal responsibilities, such as pay tax, national insurance, board and lodgings, save for release and voluntarily donate towards Victims Support and aim to become self funding within three years.
The Bromley trust grant - £15,000

Koestler Award Trust
www.koestlertrust.org.uk
Encourages and rewards a variety of creative endeavours by offenders, culminating in an annual art exhibition.
The Bromley Trust grant - £20,000
(See also The Keith Bromley Awards)

Music in Prisons (The Irene Taylor Trust)
www.musicinprisons.org.uk
Runs high quality creative music projects in prisons which teach participants valuable life skills such as team-working and perseverance as well as offering a rare opportunity for self-expression, dramatically improving self-confidence and encouraging further constructive educational activity.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000

People Trust (Providing Ex Offenders Positive Learning Environments)
www.peoplelimited.co.uk
Resettlement of prison leavers in Bath and North East Somerset.  Provides a seamless service from custody to community for anyone aged over 16 returning to rural localities. Assistance given with education, employment, training, housing, advocacy and  mentoring.
The Bromely Trust grant: £20,000

P3 (Prison Partnership Projects)
Set up in response to a prisoner-led report at HMP Wymott into the recuction of re-offending. The report identified four important areas: Family links, accommodation, community support and employment and education. (not all NOMS resettlement pathways) P3 is run by one of the reports authors now in the community and seeks to develop innovative services within these four areas.
The Bromley Trust grant £10,000 Unrestricted

Prison Education Trust
www.prisonerseducation.org.uk
Helps to reduce re-offending by funding distance learning and other courses during custodial sentences and thus improving the offenders opportunities of finding employment after release.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000 Restricted for Offender Learning matters.

The Prison Phoenix Trust
www.prisonphoenixtrust.org.uk
The Prison Phoenix Trust teaches prisoners meditation and yoga, working with silence and the breath. In collaboration with prison staff, they provide support for prisoners through teaching, workshops, correspondence, books and newsletters.
The Bromley Trsut grant - £5,000

Prison Reform Trust
www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk
Campaigns to create a just, humane and effective penal system in the UK.
The Bromley Trust grant - £5,000
(See also The Keith Bromley Awards)

Prison Video Magazine
Aims to improve communications and assist the rehabilitation of offenders throughout the UK by the production of honest and thought-provoking educational videos.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000

Shannon Trust
www.shannontrust.com
Aims to spread literacy across the whole prison estate by developing the Shannon Trust Reading Plan: Toe by Toe.   A peer coaching initiative where the participants take responsibility for their own learning, act as role models and assist others.
The Bromley Trust grant: £15,000

Sheriffs' and recorder's Fund
Sheriffs and Recorders are initiating a mentoring and advice scheme with London Probation called the Pathfinder Project. This will help ex-offenders re-integrate into society by giving advice on practical aspects of life in the Community. A task which Probation finds increasingly difficult due to time demands and changes in their remit.
The Bromley Trust grant £10,000 Restricted to pilot the Pathfinder Project

START UP
www.startuponline.org.uk
Start-Up helps ex-offenders become successfully self-employed. It provides one tone support for clients from their time in prison until their business is fully operational up to two years later. Start-up includes a thriving peer network of support and provides grants, loans and mentors.
BROMLEY TRUST GRANT £15,000 RESTRICTED TO THE WOMEN'S ESTATE

Story Book Dads
www.storybookdads.co.uk
helps to maintain family ties between prisoners and their families during the period of incarceration through the production of Story CD. The prisoners are recorded reading a story for their children. This is then edited by fellow prisoners working in the editing suite and sent to their family on the outside.
The Bromley Trust grant - £15,000

Switchback
switchbackproject.blogspot.com
Switchback works with young adult offenders in prison kitchens, building relationships that continue through the gate. After release, the programme resumes at the Skylight cafe in London and addresses the issues at the heart of the re-offending cycle. The Bromley Trust is supporting this work as part of our focus on prisoners working within catering.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000

Together (Working for Wellbeing)
www.together-uk.org
Together (Working for Wellbeing) is a national charity working for wellbeing. It supports people with mental health needs by running a range of services across the country; through campaigning and research; and by educating local communities about their own mental health needs.
The Together Forensic Mental Health Practitioner (FMHP) Service is a unique collaboration with London Probation providing a link between people in contact with the criminal justice system, who have a mental health need, and statutory or voluntary services.
The Bromley Trust grant - £15,000

The TAB Centre
www.thetabcentre.co.uk
The Tab centre is a beautiful, bright, welcoming, fully accessible community space. They run various projects supporting disadvantaged people: “Just Start” - a project supporting women offenders as they leave prison, “Tab People” - providing practical support to the homeless and other community projects.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000