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The Corston Independent Funders’ Coalition’s Advocate, Antonia Bance, has been profiled in April’s edition of the Prisoners’ Education Trust’s monthly e-bulletin, Learning Matters. You can read what Antonia has to say here.
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The Corston Independent Funders’ Coalition is delighted to announce that it will be sponsoring the Women’s category at the Howard League for Penal Reform Community Programmes Awards 2010.
The Howard League say:
These annual awards are a wonderful opportunity to highlight all the outstanding work going on around the country to make our neighbourhoods safer. Community sentences are proven to reduce reoffending and allow people to make amends for what they have done and live law-abiding lives.
The work of the winning schemes will be publicised locally and nationally. The award …
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Delighted to see that Social Finance have launched their Social Impact Bond, in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice:
This first issue will fund social organisations working to reduce the re-offending rates of short sentence male prisoners leaving Peterborough Prison. The Ministry of Justice has agreed to make payments to investors in the event that re-offending is reduced below an agreed threshold. [...] During the Peterborough Prison pilot, experienced social sector organisations, such as St Giles Trust, will provide intensive support to 3,000 short-term prisoners over a six year period, …
