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GRANTS AWARDED - PRISON REFORM

 

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During 2009 /2010 the Bromley Trust grants included:

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

Deptford Reach
www.deptfordreach.org.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 and physical wellbeing to vulnerable people.
The Bromley Trust grant - £15,000

Imperial War Museum
www.iwm.org.uk
With a keen desire to broaden the educational value of the museum’s collections to a wider audience, over the past two years IWM Duxford’s Learning Department has been running a pilot outreach project in local category C prison, Edmunds Hill. In supporting prison tutors in the delivery of their learning programmes in English, Art and English as a Second or Other Language, the “Changing times” project helps to encourage prisoners to break the cycle of poor education leading to low paid employment and unemployment.
The Bromley Trust grant - £5,000 - restricted to the Changing Times project

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 - £10,000
(See also The Keith Bromley Awards)

Moor Trees
http://www.moortrees.org/
This project aims to reduce re-offending by providing offenders with increased skills for greater employability primarily in the conservation and land-based sectors by (i) providing experiential learning through conservation projects within and outside the prison and (ii) the development of an associated employer network and mentoring service for ex-offenders.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000

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 - £15,000

NEPACS
www.nepacs.co.uk

NEPACS provides services for prisoners' families at five Visitors' Centres and runs play activities and tea bars within prison visits rooms at seven prisons.They recently held a conference on the subject of the Isolated Prisoner, and it is this project to which the Bromley Trust has made a grant, to assist with the cost of publishing the conference papers.
The Bromley Trust grant - restricted grant of £2,000 for the cost of publishing papers

Post-Adoption Centre
www.postadoptioncentre.org.uk
Post-Adoption Centre are planning a project: Birth Mothers in Prison. This project is to conduct research within women's prisons in the South East, with a view to developing a specialist training package for prison staff. This will raise their awareness of the issues faced by prisoners who have lost children to adoption or into care, or who are themselves adopted or from the care system.
The Bromley Trust grant - restricted grant of £5,000 to their work with imprisoned mothers

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
Plus a restricted grant of £5,000 to the ReadWrite Project

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 - £10,000

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)

Start Up
www.startupnow.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.
The Bromley Trust grant - £15,000 restricted to the women's estate

Sue Ryder Care
www.suerydercare.org
Sue Ryder Care is a healthcare charity, providing hospice and neurological care. This project will provide volunteer placements in Sue Ryder Care's shops for people in prison, giving them the confidence and transferable skills to help them integrate back into society.
The Bromley Trust grant - £15,000 restricted to this project

Switchback
www.switchback.org.uk/
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

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)

The Eden Project with HMP Dartmoor
www.edenproject.com
To work with prisoners to redesign 3 surplus exercise yards into fruit and vegetable gardens and to sell the produce locally in a box scheme. The plan also includes the development of two further gardens, one with sensory planting and one as a healing garden.
The Bromley Trust grant £40,000

The 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)

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


 

 
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