Our activities can be broken down into these key categories:

• Youth projects We run projects for young people excluded from school or living in disadvantaged areas where youth facilities are scarce, to engage and inspire them so they are less likely to drift into antisocial behaviour and crime.

• Housing We run accommodation projects for ex-offenders and other excluded people, to give them a stable foundation on which to build a new life.

• Education and employment We run projects for offenders and people who may be at risk to help them create new opportunities and live more productive and settled lives.

• Community sentences and bail We oversee community sentences such as ISSPs and support people to meet the terms of their bail, to reduce their likelihood of reoffending.

• Prisons and resettlement We run projects inside prisons and in the community to help prisoners and people on release find accommodation and employment and to access benefits, to help them make a fresh start free from crime.

• Improving policy and practice Our specialist teams develop policy and offer consultancy and training to promote and assess effective approaches to crime reduction