Services we provide

SIG has several dedicated specialist interventions for women that are located across London, Bedfordshire, Brighton & Hove.

Our women’s services encompass community engagement through floating support, outreach, and accommodation-based projects. These services provide assistance exclusively to women with multiple and complex needs including:

• Domestic abuse, sexual violence and exploitation
• Forensic mental health and personality disorder
• Female offenders and women at risk of offending
• Homelessness – single women and families
• Substance use
• Lack of self-esteem/confidence
• Complex historic and enduring trauma

In addition to supporting women directly, we also support local partners in understanding gender-based trauma and share our learning through best practice.

To find out more about our work supporting women please follow our social links ate the bottom of the page.

If you would like to discuss working with us directly, or help for people you support, please contact us here and a member of our Development team will be in touch shortly.

SIG works with an extensive cohort of individuals where alcohol and/or drugs play a significant part in their lives either through addiction or recovery.

We operate Brook Drive, the only charitably run detoxification service in London that is publicly funded and Aspinden Wood, a specialist CQC registered care home that also supports people with long-term addictions to alcohol who are possibly resistant to changing their drinking behaviour.

Brook Drive and Aspinden Wood both have UK-wide remits for referrals, so please get in touch if you want to make a referral here:

• Brook Drive: admin.brookdrive@equinoxcare.org.uk
• Aspinden Wood: enquiries.awc@equinox.org.uk

If you would like to know more about the services we provide, please contact us here and a member of our Development team will be in touch shortly.

SIG Penrose provides resettlement support for people in prison, through the gates and in the community.

Our main focus is helping to reduce reoffending and ensuring recidivism rates are kept low by providing behavioural programmes, support to address the underlying cause of offending behaviour and help to obtain employment and accommodation and reintegrate into families and local communities.

Last year we supported over 9,000 people in prison and the community.

Supported Accommodation
We are the London accommodation provider for the OPD (Offender Personality Disorder) pathway, supporting men and women to reintegrate back into the community and equipping them with the skills and confidence to move into independent living. This is a high-support service commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and NHS. Over the past 5 years, less than 3% of the people we have worked with have been convicted of a new offence.

Custodial Services
Working in four London prisons, we provide resettlement support for prisoners nearing release, helping them to address the underlying causes of their offending behaviour. We also deliver immediate needs assessments and support for all prisoners during their first week in custody. Last year we supported over 6,000 people in prison.

Probation Work
As a partner and subcontractor of London CRC, our community team delivers end-to-end offender management for men subject to custodial orders. Based in every London borough, we support people from point of sentence, through the gate and on to their community licence; providing supervision and resettlement support to promote desistance from crime. 86% of our service users rated their experience with us as positive or very positive.

Employability Services
Our specialist Employability Team supports people in custody and in the community into training and employment. Our successful job fair model brings together service users and employers, offering a one-stop shop for people to access a range of employability workshops and one-to-one support, before meeting employers and trainers with opportunities. To date, over 700 people have attended our job fairs with 64% of attendees achieving a positive ETE outcome, including job offers, training courses and follow-up interviews.

Group Programmes
We are currently trialling a series of group-work programmes in prison and community settings, drawing on our expertise in mental health and wellbeing. Focusing on emotional management, resilience, motivation and self-awareness, these interventions equip participants with the skills and confidence to overcome the barriers to successful resettlement. The programmes will be available for wider delivery from April 2020. For more information please contact enquiries@socialinterestgroup.org.uk.

If you would like to find out more, please contact us here and a member of our Development team will be in touch shortly.

SIG as a Group of charities offers a range of integrated support services with emphasis on prevention, early intervention, integration and recovery for people at risk of losing their independence.

We offer a range of support services, interventions and opportunities through:

• Supported Accommodation
  Either temporary or longer stay projects for up to 2 years; with onsite staff support to recover from a period of instability, to prepare for independent living, and to offer a safe and secure home to those who need additional support whilst focussing on Service User asset building and becoming active citizens.
• Housing Related Floating Support
  A peripatetic service offering needs-based individualised support to enable Service Users to live independently and successfully in their own communities.
• Community Based Recovery Services
  Creating community-based opportunities for Service Users, members and volunteers to engage in social, learning and therapeutic activities and groups to develop skills, and reintegrate into their communities.

If you would like to discuss working with us directly, or help for people you support, please contact us here and a member of our Development team will be in touch shortly.

SIG Penrose and Equinox offer a range of innovative approaches in supporting people with Personality Disorder’s (PD) that negatively impact on theirs and others’ lives, serving areas across London and the South East.

We specialise in forensic personality services and provide housing and accommodation support services (HASS) in partnership with NHS England and the MOJ. Referrals are made pan-London for adults who are a risk to themselves or others due to their offending behaviour and personality disorder. They are likely to meet the diagnostic criteria of ‘personality disorder’.

We also provide a specialist HUB for Women with a diagnosed personality disorder that are living in the community and need additional specialist support to ensure they remain engaged with services and obtain support to live independently and gain access to employment.

Services are delivered over varying terms depending on the individual’s need. We work flexibly with Service Users while ensuring our service is consistent, reliable, and promotes autonomy and choice.

If you would like to discuss working with us directly, or help for the people you support, please contact us here and a member of our Development team will be in touch shortly.