Sixty-One supports people in prison and community to lead meaningful lives away from crime. The Foundation has supported the work of Sixty-One since 2019 and this year gave a grant to help them to :
 

• Provide a goals-focused community mentoring programme for people with a criminal conviction, achieving a 95% reduction in reoffending.

• Resource and empower 5 community Hubs where people with a criminal conviction can share, volunteer and be empowered.

• Send 1,800 gifts to people in prison at Christmas and Easter time, periods when self-harm and suicide rates are high.

• Support partnership projects to deliver a Constructive Masculinity Course in HMP Bristol, a Beekeeping course for prisoners and produce a Goal-Setting Workbook.

The people Sixty-One work with can be some of the most isolated in our community. As one prisoner put it: “It would be easy for us prisoners to feel isolated from society, despised and feared, and abandoned from any kind thought or care. It is very uplifting to receive a concrete example of how some people at least do care and can direct not only kind thoughts towards us but kind actions.”​

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