African Prisons Project (APP) is a young charity founded to improve the welfare, health and education of detainees in Africa. They aim to restore the dignity of prisoners by providing humane conditions and improving welfare, access to medical facilities and the opportunity to learn. Their principal projects are the creation or refurbishment of prison clinics and libraries.

The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) organises workshops for people from all walks of life who want to deal with conflict well and without violence. It organises low-cost, friendly workshops in communities all over Britain and also runs programmes in prisons.

Amicus is a human rights charity working to draw attention to the iniquities of the death penalty. Its mission is to promote the relief of suffering and distress of those awaiting capital punishment, and to provide legal or other assistance to ensure the preservation of those individuals' rights.

Established in 1991, the Anne Frank Trust UK delivers education and volunteering programmes across the UK using the life and diary of Anne Frank and the Holocaust to raise awareness of intolerance and prejudice and to promote and celebrate positive citizenship, human rights, equality and diversity.

Celebrating the achievements of those whose scientific exploration in Antarctica has led to a new understanding of our planet, and to honour those who have lost their lives. We aim is to inspire a broader interest in Antarctica, the fragility of our environment and the interdependence of our world.

CASA IS A NORTH LONDON AGENCY THAT HELPS INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE ALCOHOL & DRUGS PROBLEMS. WE HELP OUR CLIENTS TO BUILD UPON THEIR STRENGTHS AND TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL, FREE FROM ALCOHOL OR OTHER DRUG MISUSE.

CFAB is a unique child and family social welfare charity that works to reunite children who have been seperated from their loved ones across international borders.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide is a human rights organisation which specialises in religious freedom, works on behalf of those persecuted for their Christian beliefs and promotes religious liberty for all.

The charity runs training restaurants in prisons to help reduce the rate of re-offending. This is done by enabling inmates to gain qualifications and real life experience in the hospitality industry with a view to getting them employment, mentoring and housing where required upon their release.

Giving refuge and suport to women and children fleeing domestic abuse

DIAL provides a free, confidential information and advice service on all issues affecting disabled people’s everyday lives, to enable and empower individuals to improve their quality of life.

It helps to educate young people about the futility of violence in our streets. We produce education packs and resources to encourage positive and responsible behaviour among young adults.

Fair Trials International (FTI) helps vulnerable people detained far from home to uphold their right to a fair trial. Our mission: to work for fair trials based on internationally recognised standards of justice and defend the rights of those facing charges in a country other than their own.

Footprints trains volunteers from the community to mentor men and women on their release from prison to help support them as they resettle into the community.

The Forgiveness Project (TFP) charity works at a local, national and international level to help build a future free of conflict & violence, by healing wounds of the past. TFP encourages & empowers people to explore the nature of forgiveness & alternatives to revenge. www.theforgivenessproject.com

The Female Prisoners Welfare Project (FPWP) / Hibiscus provides support for females of all ethnic origins and nationalities within the UK criminal justice system. The charity provides a practical, impartial and supportive service to women who have often suffered stigma, discrimination and abuse.

We are dedicated to serving Jews of all ages regardless of religious background or affiliation. Havenpoint operate two Chabad Community Centres in London.

The Helen Bamber Foundation works with survivors of torture, human trafficking and other forms of extreme cruelty. We provide medical consultation, we care for survivors, and we represent survivors in human rights advocacy. We create a safe place where survivors can grow and heal.

One of the world's leading independent organisations dedicated to defending human rights. Human Rights Watch works relentlessly to expose violators and give voice to the oppressed. Its rigorous, objective investigations make HRW an indisputable source of information for journalists, policy-makers, and diplomats.

INQUEST is a charity that provides a free independent advice service to bereaved people on contentious deaths and their investigation with a particular focus on deaths in custody.

Working in prisons, shelters, embassies and businesses, The KC is an educational charity, teaching a deep spiritual practice encompassing study and personal growth. Helps individuals of all backgrounds achieve their potential across all levels of society.

We are a local mental health charity

We have been awarding, exhibiting and selling artworks by offenders, detainees and secure patients for 49 years on a national scale. Our awards receive over 7000 entries a year, inspiring offenders to take part in the arts, work for achievement and transform their lives.

The KHRP has a vision for a future based on justice, equality, and the rule of law. It pioneers the upholding of human rights for all people in the Kurdish regions and beyond through raising awareness of the situation of the Kurds in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, the Caucasus and elsewhere and bring an end to the violation of the rights of Kurds and others in these countries.

The Longford Trust, established in 2002 in memory of Lord Longford (1905-2001), aims to further the goals he pursued in the fields of social and prison reform.. Scholarships are given to offenders and ex-offenders going into higher education. Our annual lecture takes place on 16 November 2010.

Manchester menap the learning disability charity is not funded by National Mencap. We provide advocacy, and physical activities for people to socialise - keeping it local ! Please back us

We get offenders working to pay back to society and help people in need. We rescue old wheelchairs and bicycles from the tip and get them fixed up in prison workshops. Prisoners perform useful work that has a real benefit - the refurbished goods are sent to people in need in the developing world.

Medical Justice is a voluntary network of medics, lawyers, ex-detainees and others which challenges medical abuse in immigration detention and facilitates access to legal representation. Independent medics visit detainees and document their scars of torture and/or other medical conditions.

This grant giving Fund commemorates the life of Michael Varah, and the work he was prevented from finishing by his early death. It supports the causes that Michael believed in and worked to alleviate: disadvantage and social exclusion, homelessness and poverty, crime prevention and rehabilitation of offenders, human rights.

Is a Liverpool grown charity dedicated to promoting social inclusion. It helps people with a learning disability to make choices and move on with their lives. It seeks to create opportunities for disabled people to have their voices heard and opinions recognised through a person centred approach.

Nacro reduces crime by changing lives. We work with the most disadvantaged people, offenders and those at risk of offending, to help them find positive alternatives to crime and to achieve their full potential in our society. <p> Without your help we would not be able to help people turn their lives around. There are still communities living in fear of crime, and people who lack the skills and opportunities they need to make positive change. By supporting us you can invest in our communities, to build a brighter future. <p> Visit the Nacro website at: www.nacro.org.uk

Right now an estimated 100 million Christians face persecution. Open Doors provides Bibles, Christian literature, training, literacy programmes and practical support to persecuted Christians worldwide. We are the world's largest outreach to persecuted Christians, working in over 50 countries, including some of the most high-risk places on earth.

The Philemon Foundation's aim is to break chains and restore lives. It does this by rehabilitating prisoners and former prisoners in Kenya, providing food, shelter, counselling, community, training and employment with the ultimate goal of reintegration into society. Philemon works with Government and civil society groups, local churches and international partners.

It supports prisoners and their families by providing practical services at prisons across the country, including family visitors' centres, children's play services, 'first night in custody' support, and information, advice and guidance.

The Prison Phoenix Trust brings hope and healing to prisoners with the disciplines of yoga and meditation, based on silence and the breath. The Trust trains and supports qualified yoga teachers for work in prisons - in substance misuse, anger management and education programmes. Prisoners are invited to practise daily in their cells and supported by 150 weekly classes in 87 prisons in the UK and Ireland. The PPT encourages them with correspondence, free resource books, CDs, and quarterly newsletters, and also works with prison staff and officers in 20 weekly classes.

The Prison Reform Trust aims to create a just, humane and effective penal system. We do this by conducting research into the prison system and conditions, informing prisoners, staff, the media and the wider public of our findings and campaigning for reform among MPs, peers and government officials.

Prisoners Abroad is the only UK charity providing information, advice and support to Britons detained overseas, their family and friends, and to released prisoners trying to re-establish themselves in society.

It provides legal advice and legal representation to prisoners in England and Wales.

Release supports persecuted Christians by: *Showing God's compassion (to their families) *Serving God's church (helping them to recover from persecution) *Sharing God's love (with their persecutors) *Spreading God's Word (by distributing Bibles) *Speaking as God's advocates (on their behalf).

Reprieve uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay. We investigate, we litigate and we educate. Working on the frontline, we provide legal support to prisoners unable to pay for it themselves. We promote the rule of law around the world, and secure each person’s right to a fair trial. In doing so we save lives.

The Roddick Foundation makes grants to those engaged in results-orientated work in the areas of social, labour and environmental justice and human rights. It is dedicated to supporting those who change the world for the better.

Safe Ground’s courses teach prisoners to become positive role models for their children, helping them to understand their responsibilities as fathers. Safe Ground builds stronger families and safer communities by giving male prisoners the skills to maintain and develop vital family ties.

Safer London Foundation is the Metropolitan Police charity. Helping to make London a safer place to live, work and visit by funding crime reduction/prevention projects in communities throughout London and by matching ex-offenders with mentors to help them into employment, training or education.

A 200 year-old charity helping London&#39;s ex-prisoners and their families with grants for training and welfare.

Working to achieve justice for the thousands of Sikhs, who have been illegally imprisoned and tortured in India. SOPW provides monthly welfare for the prisoners including basic amenities such as clothing and food, as well as support for their families. All SOPW Members are volunteers (unpaid).

Skills for Developments objective is in the development of skills as a means of empowering disempowered people and alleviating poverty. We believe in grass root empowerment and that for any sustainable solution, the solution and resolution must originate from the community itself.

Helps young people steer away from a lifestyle of crime and antisocial behaviour and helps ex offenders break free from the cycle of crime and reoffending. Seeking to change their behaviour and attitudes from being a burden to society to becoming a positive contributor to society.

People trafficking - buying & selling people - is the world's fastest growing crime. Whether it's in the products you buy, eat and wear or your local sex industry - it is something affecting every community worldwide. STOP THE TRAFFIK is a global movement fighting to PREVENT the sale of people, PROTECT the victims and PROSECUTE the traffickers.

Maintains family ties between prisoners and their children through the production of CDs / DVDs of imprisoned parents reading a bedtime story to their children. Brings comfort to the children left behind and enables the parents to participate in their children's lives in a meaningful way

It supports people and their families carers in the local area with life limiting or terminal illness . This is by home visits, day care, hospital transport, equipment loan and bereavement support.

Switchback supports 18-24 year olds to build on skills learnt in prison kitchens so that real, lasting change is possible after release. By combining an intensive mentoring relationship with a practical programme, we are able to make employment a realistic prospect for this vulnerable group.

TIBET WATCH PROMOTES THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE TIBETAN PEOPLE BY MONITORING ABUSES OF TIBETAN PEOPLES' HUMAN RIGHTS, RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES AFFECTING THE TIBETAN PEOPLE, EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF TIBETAN PEOPLE AND RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES AFFECTING THE TIBETAN PEOPLE.

It provides sustainable inclusion to disadvantaged communities,advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure-time occupation with the object of improving their conditions of life

Working globally to promote the mental, physical, sexual and emotional health of Pakistani men and women, to promote equal opportunities. To advance the education of Pakistani women.

We are committed to raising aspirations and releasing potential of children and young people by supporting a team of Children's Workers, two Youth Centres, Out of School Clubs and a Community Cafe. Our intention is to build healthy communities that care for the young - body, mind and spirit.

Our Vauxhall Community Centre has been at the heart of child care provision since 1985 providing a lifeline for over 100 vulnerable families who desperately need our support to continue working or studying. Help us to maintain these services, Vauxhall Community Centre cannot exist without your help!

Wish, founded in 1987, is a registered national charity whose mission is to provide long-term, gender-sensitive support and services to women with mental health needs in their journey through the criminal justice and mental health systems and into the community, and to support women to have their voices heard at a policy level.

Lancaster and District YMCA work to improve the quality of life for young people in crisis. Our current work includes work with homeless young people, ex-offenders, and young people experiencing family breakdown. We also run a community radio station and manage the Ridge Community Centre.