Rebuild with Hope
Rebuild with Hope was established in 2021 to mentor and support ex-offenders post release by providing employment opportunities and wrap around support making a transition back to their communities as smooth as possible. Although there are a number of employers willing to work with ex-offenders on release, we have found through our experience of working with this group that employment is not always suitable or sustainable, leaving many individuals feeling that the progression and journey they have been on in custody amounts to very little once back in the community.
This group of people often return to some of the most deprived local communities and face the toughest challenges, living on the fringes of society through stigma, lack of skills, poverty, and complex health and mental health issues.
Rebuild with Hope provide a progression route and a seamless transition into the community, offering the opportunity of continuity of training and employment on release, alongside sustained mentoring and wrap-around support for individuals for at least 12 months post release to help keep them on track. We provide a safety net for individuals when it is needed the most, building trusted relationships and helping to prevent them from reoffending and returning to prison.
The business model for Rebuild with Hope is based on replicating and expanding the successful social-impact model delivered by Remade with Hope in custody, but in a community setting.
Remade with Hope who have been running industrial workshops inside 5 prisons across the North West working with serving prisoners to improve self esteem and personal responsibility through the routine of purposeful activity as well as enhancing their post-release employability by learning new skills.
We have set up a community warehouse where we undertake recycle and upcycling of high-quality high-street products, and providing warehousing, logistics, packing and retail training and employment opportunities for participants. We have opened three outlets one in Earlestown, one in Wigan and one in Kirkham and we also hold community sales in disadvantaged communities across the North West offering quality clothing and household goods at a significant reduced cost to local families and residents who are living in poverty or facing hardship.