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We are looking for a new Trustee – could it be you? Passionate about supporting women in the Criminal Justice System? Have you got time to give? Do you have skills such as Housing Expertise, HR, Finance? Want to be part of a fantastic team, w
30% of people in prison were excluded from school before the age of 16. If you are facing abuse or witnessing violence at home, how are you meant to concentrate at school? So many women in prison have abuse of some kind in their histories so it&rsquo
If you could change one thing in your life what would it be? Get fitter? Learn a new skill? Making changes in our lives can be challenging but doing them alone is so much harder. Offering our residents support as they work towards the life they reall
32% of women who end up being homeless say that domestic violence was a big factor. Imagine leaving prison having got away from that abuse only to have to go back into it just because you have nowhere else to go! Homelessness or abuse? What would you
Who doesn’t love a Bank Holiday lie in! But there are no holidays, no time off, no reprieve when you are rough sleeping! Over 300 women a year leave prison homeless just in the south east. So many women left to survive on the streets. No wonder
What can we say but thank you!
Congratulations to our amazing team for winning a High Sheriff’s Award 2023. Thank you to @KentCommunityFoundation for hosting such a great evening. Good conversation, lovely food, and the chance to celebrate all the remarkable charities that a
Spring is all about seeing new life after a dark winter! And that pretty much sums up ID Grace House for us. A place where our residents can have a fresh start, a second chance to begin again and learn to see what their life can be like free of crime
Please pray for our amazing Council of Reference team. They have been faithfully working towards getting ID Grace House ready to open and sharing their expertise and experience. Without Team this project would never have got to the place it has. And
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, we want to remember those women who have done their time but still carry the stigma of a prison sentence. This year the focus for IWD is on #EmbraceEquity How can we embrace equity when women prison le
We’re so close to being able to open Grace House. We just need a house! We know that’s a huge thing but we also know that when we do get a house the long wait will be over and it will be all hands on deck getting ready to welcome women in
Most of us feel that we want our lives to mean something. To make a difference to our fellow man or woman. That is what is so exciting about our Grace House project. We know that it will make a huge difference to the women who will stay with us. Leav
What are you doing this Friday night? Are you going out? Relaxing after a hard week? A third of all prison releases happen on a Friday. This means that women have no time to meet with Probation, find safe accommodation, contact their support networks
There is a chronic shortage of housing for women leaving prison and it’s driving them back into prison. Women are being released homeless, recalled for breach of their licence through an Anti-Social Behaviour Order for sleeping in a park and th
Hope is a powerful thing. It keeps us going when we think we can’t take another step. We meet so many women in prison who have kept their hope for a better future even in the darkest times. We want Grace House to be a place of hope where women
Please pray for everyone who is rough sleeping today. Although we have a special heart for women leaving prison homeless, we can’t imagine what it must be like out there in the cold right now. Pray as we work to get ID Grace House off the groun
Don’t we all! We are trying to meet up with local church leaders to see how they are doing in these difficult times, to show our support and to let them know what about we are doing to help women in touch with the Criminal Justice System. Comme
We’re starting the New Year with our annual event - An Evening With Imago Dei. An opportunity for old and new friends and supporters alike, to gather and hear the latest about how we support women in the Criminal Justice System and beyond. Come