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impact | sixty one

"If you hadn’t been there to meet me I really think that I would have killed myself"

Prisoner HMP Eastwood Park

Through our work we are:​

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  • Working with 80 ex-prisoners and 68 trained volunteer mentors each month  

  • Mentees we work with have a reoffending rate of just 2.5%, a 95.4% reduction compared to the national average

  • Running four community support Hubs

  • Working in collaboration with a local businessman to disseminate and deliver the Goal-Setting Workbook  at HMP Bristol

  • Enabling and supporting churches to be able to help people with a criminal conviction

  • Supporting new rehabilitative projects being developed by churches and the local community

  • Running annual Gift projects giving over 1,800 prisoners a gift bag of presents and hand-written card at Christmas and Easter time 

  • Delivering a Constructive Masculinity course (exploring positive masculinity) and Goal-Setting Workbook in HMP Bristol and in the community

  • Holding events linking the churches with our partner charities

  • Aiding partnership working between our partner charities and beyond

  • Openly sharing what with leaders in other parts of the country

  • Hosting a Bristol City-Wide Partnership with representatives from organisations working with people in prison and post-release. Chaired by Sixty-One, the group includes senior representatives from local authorities, government, voluntary, and private businesses. Its aim is to establish a joined up approach supporting prison-leavers in the three key areas to enable desistance (accommodation, employment and mentoring).

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