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Founded in 2022, Cedar House Charitable Trust (CHCT) each year supports frontline organisations which directly work with people who are or have been in custody, or who are at risk of offending.
CHCT achieves this by providing financial grants to registered charities and CICs that have this particular focus.
CHCT has supported the following charitable organisations/projects:
helps prisoners serving sentences in Buckinghamshire prisons and prison leavers rebuilding their lives in the county. Small grants are offered via HMPPS towards essential items or towards employment training courses.
aims to improve responses for young people before they get caught up in offending and when they first have contact with the justice system.
located in Westminster, helps people facing poverty and the threat of homelessness with support. It also provides immigration and asylum advice.
trains prisoners and prison leavers in skilled textiles production and provides prison leavers with work experience and mentoring, employment and resettlement support on release.
helps improve the food served in prisons across England & Wales by delivering holistic food education, training prison catering teams and developing healthier recipes and menus.
aims to reduce reoffending by training and employing women with lived prison experience in horticulture, installing and maintaining indoor plants for clients across London.
supports men and women on long sentences take their next step in life by making financial awards and by publishing a Directory of support services.
buys books for those attending courses in prison, dictionaries for prisoners whose first language is not English, and large print books for those with dyslexia.
provides free family law advice and representation to mothers in prison to help them re-establish and maintain contact with their children during their sentence and upon release.
helps free those who have been in prison from the cycle of reoffending. O&U's first project, XO Bikes, trains men to refurbish, refinish and sell used bikes.
aims to deliver the world's leading sports-based mentoring programme for young men in the criminal justice system.
aims through its Good Jobs Project to transform ways businesses consider the recruitment of marginalised groups - including those who have been in prison.
supports men in prison in London via intensive courses which help in the development of key life skills, communication, leadership, CV preparation, and mock job interviews.
helps vulnerable men, including those who have been in prison, get into employment by providing suitable interview clothing, interview advice, and mentoring.
Men Changing Lives is a people-led community-based initiative supporting men involved in criminal justice in Cardiff to support each other. Supporting men with confidence, addiction recovery, and wellbeing. initiatives.
Guidelines
Applications for financial support are sought on an ‘invitation-only’ basis.
CHCT supports charities and CICs.
The charities and CICs supported by CHCT assist prisoners, prison leavers, and those at risk of offending.
CHCT is interested in those organisations which focus on education, training, and employment, and the strengthening family/social bonds.
Whilst only a guideline, much of CHCT’s support has been focused on charities and CICs with annual expenditure of c£300,000 or less.