Venture Trust - Next Steps (Venture Trust)

Next Steps is for women whose backgrounds have led to their involvement in offending or to experience homelessness or misuse drugs or alcohol which may impact on their wellbeing, relationships and life circumstances.

Our programmes provide support for up to 9 months helping individuals to make and sustain connections to services and employment, education, training or volunteering opportunities within their communities. Participants showed increased self-confidence, improved their employability skills, showed behaviours and circumstances likely to reduce risks of reconviction, improved their relationships with those around them, and were making increased use of services and opportunities in their community (such as libraries, gyms or doctors’ surgeries).

How the programme works

• An initial conversation by phone/video call to decide if the service is right for you
• After an assessment period, you will be given an outreach worker to identify the changes you want to make in life and develop achievable goals
• Support with personal development and outdoor learning through face-to-face and small group activities, as well as by phone and digital platforms.
• Our face-to-to work will be delivered with small groups of participants within their local authority and in line with Government guidelines to minimise travel and transmission risks.
• Further community-based outreach support to encourage progression and embedding positive changes over a 9 month period.

Target group

Next Steps is for women whose backgrounds have led to their involvement in offending or to experience homelessness or misuse drugs or alcohol which may impact on their wellbeing, relationships and life circumstances.