by Francesca Findlater, CEO, Bounce Back As a social enterprise as well as a charity, Bounce Back is a painting and decorating business that trains and employs ex-offenders. It is also a great example of an organisation that has flourished due to its social enterprise status. The...
This year sees the start of an exciting new project for Bounce Back - Project Shoreditch. The exciting task involves the re-decoration of this magnificent listed, historic building. This will run over the next year and is hugely significant being the first time the building has been...
Another great community project with Wates finished this week. Raw Material provide a range of training, mentoring and professional arts projects to change and improve the lives of young people, their opportunities and development, including mental and physical health issues. Great to be able to work...
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...
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