Funding secured to help develop practice

Interserve’s Community Rehabilitation Companies have secured funding to help develop the next phase of the company’s personalisation project. Personalisation involves focusing probation practice on an individual’s needs, giving them increased ownership over the service they receive. Interserve’s five CRCs have each piloted a unique approach to personalistion within a probation setting. Evaluation of the projects…

Hempland Lane Allotments Society get make over from Community Payback

Allotment owners in York have praised offenders working on a Community Payback project to help refurbish the gardens on a key community facility in Heworth. Hempland Lane Allotments Society recently requested the help of Humberside, Lincolnshire & North Yorkshire Community Rehabilitation Company (HLNY CRC) to carry out a Community Payback project on the allotments. Offenders,…

Offenders ‘building blocks’ to restore North Yorkshire’s dry stone walls

Offenders ‘building blocks’ to restore North Yorkshire’s dry stone walls image

A team of offenders in North Yorkshire are restoring the region’s distinctive dry stone walls in Upper Nidderdale as part of the Building Blocks community scheme. The conservation training project, managed by the Humberside, Lincolnshire & North Yorkshire Community Rehabilitation Company (HLNY CRC) as part of Community Payback, has involved teams of people on unpaid…

Community Payback workers transform North Yorkshire village church at Cundall

An historic church in the centre of Cundall village, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire has been transformed thanks to the of work by 13 offenders on Community Payback. The scheme, managed by the Humberside, Lincolnshire & North Yorkshire Community Rehabilitation Company (HLNY CRC), has involved teams of people on unpaid work orders clearing weeds from the…