2020 Community Awards Shortlisted Projects

Howard League Community Awards 2020

Shortlisted Projects by category

Women

• New Chance, Anawim and Office of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner
• CEASE (Creating Empowerment and Self Efficacy), REMEDI Restorative Services
• Diversion Support – Changing Lives
• CoLab Exeter Resilient Women Programme – CoLab Exeter
• Dorset Female Out of Court Diversionary Scheme – Footprints Project Ltd and Dorset Police
• Justice & Safety – Lancashire Women
• Alana House – community-based support for Female Offenders – Community Investment Fund (Ministry of Justice funded) – Parents And Children Together (PACT)
• Sunflower Women’s Centre – Trevi
• Treasures – Treasure Foundation

Policing and children

• Calderdale Early Intervention Team – West Yorkshire Police
• Drop the Knife for a Better Life – Early Action Hub (Sunnyvale)
• Children in Police Custody (Greater Manchester) – Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) incorporating GM Local Authorities & Greater Manchester Police (GMP)
• Thames Valley Police, Drug diversion scheme – Thames Valley Police, West Berkshire Youth justice team, The Edge – Young people’s substance misuse service
• North Lincs Early Intervention Team – Humberside Police
• Custody Diversion – St Giles Trust
• Sunnyvale – Sunnyvale Fishery & Outdoor Activity Centre
• Children of Prisoners Empowered (COPE) – St Giles Trust

Policing and adults

• Domestic Abuse Follow up project – Humberside Police
• Browns Intensive Support Services – Browns Community Services CIC
• Operation Engage – MEDWAY – Kent Police – Medway Community Safety Unit

Liaison and diversion

• Birmingham & Solihull Liaison & Diversion Team – Birmingham & Solihull Liaison & Diversion Team
• Time To Recover – Compass Project 2012
• Getting it Right: Liaison and Diversion Services for young people – Peer Power Youth and the NHS England (London) Health in Justice Team
• North East Lincolnshire Diversion offer – North Eat Lincolnshire council
• Nottinghamshire Youth Justice Service – Nottinghamshire County Council
• Golf 999 (G-999) – Sea Sanctuary
• St Giles’s Emergency Department/Trauma Centre Intervention Service – St Giles Trust
• The Call In – Golden Key

Children in care and care leavers

• Young People’s Circles of Support and Accountability Project (South West England) – Circles South West
• Drive Forward Foundation Policy Forum’s campaign to ‘decriminalise care’ – Drive Forward Foundation
• Youth Justice Voices – Staf (Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum) and CYCJ (Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice)
• Norfolk Multi Agency Approach to Reducing the Criminalisation of Looked after Children – Norfolk Constabulary, Children’s Services, YOT

Restorative approaches

• Itsup2u – CELLS project CIC
• Make Amends – Shekinah Mission
• Step Up – Restorative Solutions CIC – 149 Creatives
• Turning The Spotlight – Victim Support

Criminal Justice Champion

• Angeline Gore – Browns Community Services CIC
• Robert Bosson – Northumbria Police
• Darren O’Connell – Safer Merthyr Tydfil
• David Parks – The Skill Mill Limited
• Emma Jones – The Include Hub
• Robbie Walker-Brown – Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside
• Sofia Buncy – Muslim Women in Prison Project (Khidmat Centre)
• Steve Jones – REMEDI Restorative Services

Organisation of the year

• Browns Community Services CIC
• CATCH
• Dear Albert (The Recovery Consultancy Ltd t/a Dear Albert)
• Family Gateway
• GamCare
• Include Hub – Include trading as Gibran Ltd UK
• Sefton CVS
• The Skill Mill Ltd.
• Nottinghamshire Youth Justice Service – Nottinghamshire County Council