Sports Connect’s work with Novus and HMPPS at Cookham Wood YOI in Kent offers an exciting blueprint for how sport and community partnerships can positively impact on reoffending.

DIVERT Lancashire, a project to cut reoffending rates which involves the community trusts of Lancashire's professional football clubs, is set to kick off in earnest.

An innovative partnership between Pete Bell’s ‘Step Out Stay Out’ football-based rehabilitation programme and HMP Lowdham Grange looks set to benefit prison leavers and a deprived Nottingham estate.

The Growth Project, which seeks to transform organisational culture in prisons, is set to expand into HMP Hewell and HMP Foston Hall in 2021.

During these difficult times, we know our Community of Practice is busy finding ways to continue engaging with their beneficiaries who may be missing out on vital support whilst in lockdown.

London’s biggest climbing wall is an appropriate place for prison leavers who are helped to overcome huge obstacles in their lives by the Reasons Why Foundation. Find out how they do it.

When Nick Burke finished his second spell in prison he was determined never to return, and to help people in his underprivileged area of Salford avoid the pitfalls of crime. Read how he did it.

Training offenders to be Football Association futsal Level 1 coaches is just the latest of Pete Bell’s pioneering initiatives using sport to improve the prospects of people in prison.

Rowing is proving to be a highly effective engagement tool with young people at risk of offending - thanks to London Youth Rowing’s Life Skills programme.

Pete Bell, founder of football-based offender mentoring programme Step Out Stay Out, reveals what he learned from the innovative Football Works Festival held inside a Dutch jail.