Founding Gatemate Partners

The Prince's Trust

The Prince’s Trust helps change young lives. The Prince’s Trust runs a programme called ‘Working One to One with Young Offenders’ which enables former offenders to support young adults through their transition from prison to community. We are behind the GateMate campaign because we want all young adults leaving prison to have the option of a mentor – a positive role model with similar life experience.

Clinks

Clinks provide support to voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations that deliver services to offenders and their families. We are behind the GateMate campaign because we believe strongly in the positive impact of mentoring on offenders, especially when they are released from prison back into the community.

St Giles Trust

St Giles Trust helps offenders and other disadvantaged people rebuild their lives through providing education, training, support into employment and housing. We are behind the Gate Mate campaign because re-offending rates will be greatly reduced if every prison leaver in the UK is supported in making the difficult transition from custody to community, when risk of re-offending is high. By helping ex-offenders stay crime-free, we build safer communites for everyone.

Catch22

Catch22 is the national charity that helps young people in tough situations. We believe every young person deserves the chance to get on in life no matter what they have done or how long it takes. We work with young people aged 10 to 25 giving them opportunities to learn, earn a living, have a safe place to live, steer clear of crime and give something back. We are behind the Gatemate campaign because too many young people leave custody with nowhere to go, nothing to do and no one to rely on. Many employers won’t have them and it can be all too easy to fall back into old habits. We want to help change that.

The Mentoring and Befriending Foundation (MBF)

MBF’s vision is of a society where everyone has access to a mentor or befriender to enable them to reach their full potential. The GateMate campaign therefore mirrors this perfectly which is why we are a founding partner and strong supporter. MBF believes that quality mentoring delivered as part of a resettlement package can reduce re-offending and calls for national coverage of mentoring services for young adults leaving prison. As the national body for mentoring, we promote the importance of quality standards and procedures in mentoring for offenders and ex-offenders within the GateMate campaign.

The Bonita Trust

The Bonita Trust is a Gibraltar-based independent philanthropic trust, founded in 2004. Bonita' purpose results from a personal commitment by its principals to work in partnership with communities at a local and national level, partnering with charities leveraging technology and internet-based solutions to deliver programmes in the areas of education, social justice, health and entrepreneurship.

The Bonita Trust supports the GateMate campaign because it believes that all young people leaving prison should be offered 1-2-1 support and the opportunity to rebuild their lives. We believe that the GateMate website will create a national resource for all those involved with the rehabilitation of young offenders, and create a cohesion which will raise the profile of the campaign as well as bringing the issue to the attention of policy-makers at both a local and national level.

Innovation Exchange

Innovation Exchange works an innovation broker for the third sector. We connect innovators with those who could support, commission and fund an innovation, to try to ensure that great third sector projects reach their full potential. We are supporting the GateMate campaign because we believe that providing mentors for young people leaving custody will help them to make better choices and create better lives for themselves, and seriously help reduce rates of offending. Innovation Exchange is proud to be a part of the strong network behind this campaign to make mentoring a universal right for young offenders.