We provide hope, rehabilitation and recovery to victims and perpetrators of crime.
We work with our beneficiaries and key decision makers to develop a fairer, more humane, and more effective criminal justice system.
SCOTLAND, ENGLAND AND WALES HAVE THE HIGHEST IMPRISONMENT RATES IN WESTERN EUROPE. IN march 2024, THE PRISON POPULATION STOOD AT 97,700. OUR REOFFENDING RATES ARE ALSO GROWING.
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80% of PLAN A participants increased their commitment to being crime free.
Blog
Belong Launches Policy and Influencing Strategy
Last month, we were delighted to launch our new Policy and Influencing Strategy, setting out our renewed focus on achieving three linked changes across the criminal justice system: Stronger community support through restorative justice, mentoring and creative...
Trauma and Creative Psychotherapy
To mark World Trauma Day, we caught up with one of our Creative Psychotherapists to find out more about her work, its relationship to trauma, and how she practices therapy in the prison environment. 1. Who are you and what is your role at Belong? My name is Evridiki...
21 September is International Day of Peace
"Peace is both an innate state of being and a dynamic, transformative, and evolutionary process." This reflection from Avon Mattison, Founder of Pathways To Peace, resonates strongly with the principles that underpin restorative practice. Peace is not simply the...
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