Only Connect UK

Only Connect is Londons creative criminal justice charity. Our vision is a more connected society where we all choose a crime free life. The focus of our work is innovation to reduce re-offending. We work with Londoners aged 16+ with recent experience of the criminal justice system, equipping them with the necessary skills, attributes and positive networks to develop and pursue their life goals without harm. We believe in the idea of Handshake, not Handout. This means our Members are enabled to design and deliver solutions to their own problems, and problems faced by other Members and their peers across London. We aim to equip a generation of people with the resilience and skills to address the challenges they face, and become positive agents for change in their communities assets not liabilities for London. We achieve impact in two ways. Firstly, we work in four Londons prisons and across youth justice services in the capital. We worked with nearly 300 people in custody d...