Author: Bounce Back

Roger Blackman of the Reasons Why Foundation speaks of the importance of understanding emotions. Shame and guilt are quite buzzy words across the criminal justice sector at the moment. They have been the feelings/emotions that a few inspiring and innovative practitioners have been focussing on in their...

It's the last day today at West12 Shopping Centre getting the area ready for the Petit Miracles expansion. It has been an exciting and vibrant project including astroturfing walls and painting an aubergine ceiling!  It's the first job for one of the guys on the team...

Last day today at West12 Shopping Centre getting the area ready for the Petit Miracles expansion into a bigger space. It has been an exciting and vibrant project - astroturfed walls and an aubergine ceiling…  All looking pretty amazing. It was the first job for...

Last week 40 employees from William Morris Entertainment joined us as part of their Corporate Charity Volunteer Day to "Walk the Walk" and help us in our new training centre. The task was to clear out, clean out and paint the workspace. The ability of...

Last week a team of 6 guys were hard at it at the Clissold Arms in Finchley where they were given 48 hours to completely re decorate the Gastro Pub. When the landlord called time at the end of the 2nd day the job was complete! Great work and a...

In celebration of Social Saturday, the event to raise awareness of Social Enterprises this coming weekend, we are launching our Kitemark to the social enterprise industry. The Kitemark will recognise the work of individuals and organisations that have a commitment to reducing re-offending by using...

We were thrilled to be referenced by Hazel Blears earlier this week in a debate in Parliament on the Social Economy. In Hazel's words: "Bounce Back is a social enterprise that trains people who are ex-offenders. It costs some £95,000 to keep someone in prison, but...

This week we started a lovely project to paint the Preachers house at The Charterhouse situated north of Charterhouse Square, London. This stunning former Carthusian monastery has served as a private mansion, a boy's school and an almshouse (which it remains to this day) since the dissolution of...

It's 2 Weeks to the UK’s first Social Saturday on 13th September. The 2013 State of Social Enterprise Survey showed whilst three quarters of the public support the idea of social enterprise, awareness remains low. Social Saturday aims to raise awareness of social enterprise and encourage...

We are delighted to report that participants from our course within HMP Brixton are now starting to be released and we see the rewards from our training first hand. The first two came out a few weeks ago and both are now working with us in...

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