Tony supports service users as a peer mentor
Tony Trevor, who did unpaid work in Lincolnshire with HLNY, is now supporting service users as a peer mentor. David Hardy, Community Payback placement supervisor, says: “Tony has been out with me many times now and continues to be extremely pro-active always engaging with our service users especially if we have new starter. “He now…
Personalisation pilot training begins in Hull
A total of 25 staff participated in the first personalisation training event as part of a pilot which will be rolled out across the Community Rehabilitation Companies. Personalisation aims to deliver rehabilitative support packages that are co-produced with service users, enabling them to make personal change while also enabling the CRCs to deliver the court’s…
Offenders contribute more than £240,000 to communities in region
Offenders working in their communities after being sentenced for criminal offences have contributed tens of thousands of hours in North Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire. Humberside Lincolnshire & North Yorkshire Community Rehabilitation Company (HLNY CRC), which is responsible for supervising offenders on Community Payback and ensuring they comply with their sentence, delivered 30,548 hours in the…
Personal approach to reducing re-offending
by Caroline Marsh, independent consultant working with Interserve justice We can support people to make changes to their lives, but my firm belief is that it is only when an individual wants to change, that really crucial progress can be made. Interserve, which runs five successful Community Rehabilitation Companies, has recognised this principle and has…
‘Thank your lads for a job well done’
Parents, toddlers, pensioners and sporting groups in North Yorkshire have all benefited from the work delivered by offenders working on Community Payback at the East Thirsk Community Hall. A team from Community payback, which is managed by HLNY Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) have spent the past weeks painting the hall and tidying up the garden…
Drug abuse clean up in Grimsby
North East Lincolnshire Council and a Community Payback team from HLNY CRC were out on a Grimsby street, focusing on cleaning up an area to the rear of Halfords that has been plagued by anti-social behaviour and widespread flytipping. The teams were initially out to try and clear up a lot of the fly tipped…
Raising cash for the homeless
Trace Fitzsimmonspell is sleeping rough for a night to help raise awareness and cash for a charity dedicated to supporting homeless people in Merseyside. She will be bedding down in a cardboard box under a plastic sheet outside Liverpool’s St James’ Cathedral. Trace, Wakefield’s service delivery manager at the Professional Services Centre (PSC), is taking…
HLNY CRC supports Ripon Walled Garden
Ripon Walled Garden has benefited from the support of Humberside, Lincolnshire & North Yorkshire CRC (HLNY CRC) as offenders working on Community Payback have been delivering unpaid work as volunteers at the social enterprise. Ripon Walled Garden is a Community Link Project based in part of what was once the Bishop’s Palace Garden. The Walled…
Makeover for Bishopthorpe Road, York
Throughout April and May the Community Payback team at HLNY Community Rehabilitation will be working on conjunction with the City of York Council painting the railings on Bishopthorpe Road. This stretch of road leads straight to the heart of York alongside the length of the race course. The fresh painted railing really will make it…
Cleaning up after the Beast from the East
Residents in Lincolnshire have praised the work carried out by offenders working on a Community Payback for their work clearing sand from the Mablethorpe seafront. The team from Community Payback had previously worked with Big Local to clear sand from the town’s promenade to much acclaim. However, the Beast from the East wiped out all…