New Hall

Together Women continue to provide the gender specific resettlement services for women residing in New Hall prison. Based within the heart of the grounds, our women centre replicates the safe environment of our community women centres’ where customers can meet with staff, attend groups and have a coffee, which is a novelty within the prison establishment.

We have had a presence in the prison since 2007, as we recognise that some women will inevitably receive a custodial sentence. However, our services have developed significantly over the past 11 years. Our main areas of delivery include;

Support for women experiencing, or at risk of Domestic Abuse: A full time Key Worker and Qualified IDVA provide 1-1 support and risk management for women at risk of violence on release into the community. Support includes access to the Freedom programme, DASH assessment and MARAC referral where appropriate. In addition to this, each woman is screened on reception into custody and assessed according to risk of Violence. Our approach is preventative so we can minimise the amount of women becoming entrenched in unhealthy relationships.
Rape and Sexual Trauma Counselling: Our qualified counsellor is based within HMP New Hall full time, supporting women with their counselling needs.
Sex Work support: 1-1 and group support for women who are involved in the sex industry. Community organisations from across the Yorkshire and Humber region attend the centre to support the women pre-release. Courses and group work includes sexual health, keeping yourself self and exit strategies.
Generic resettlement support: The centre hosts a number of agencies to help women cope with their custodial sentence and assist with any practical and emotional needs they may have. These include Muslim Women in Prison and Prisoner Advice clinic who are legal experts.

The women centre was awarded a Butler Trust Commendation in the year 2013-14 for ‘Outstanding resettlement services for female offenders’. The recommendation was for all female establishments to replicate a similar model of through-care support.

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Together Women’s centre in Leeds delivers holistic support in a safe and confidential environment to women with multiple and complex needs in Leeds city centre and the surrounding districts.
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Our Bradford Together Women centre delivers holistic support in a safe and confidential environment to women with complex needs in the Bradford district. Please note the Bradford centre has now moved to Carlisle Business Centre. (See below for a map and directions to the new location).
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Sheffield's Together Women centre provides holistic and gender-specific support to women with a variety of needs across the city of Sheffield.

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Together Women are a charitable organisation, working to support women and girls with multiple and complex needs across the North of England.
Our Centres

LOOKING FOR SPACE? Together Women centres offer free space to groups or individuals looking to deliver or develop gender specific activities in the community. Get in touch
Sheffield

Sheffield's Together Women centre provides holistic and gender-specific support to women with a variety of needs across the city of Sheffield.
Gender Specific Mentoring

Together Women's Gender-Specific Mentoring Toolkit has tools and resources to help you develop an effective mentoring programme for female offenders. It will also support you in engaging with female offenders and implementing a gender-specific approach within your service or practice.
VIBE

VIBE (Voice, Influence, Be Empowered) is a project for and led by young women and girls aged 12-19 to have a say on issues affecting them and make changes locally, regionally and nationally.
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Together Women works to integrate women with multiple and complex needs in to the community to reduce isolation and increase social activity. Together Women invites customers, volunteers, agencies and community services to work alongside us and help provide a wider support network for the women we work with.
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GEMS Saturday café was set up and run by the young women that attend VIBE, providing young women with training, support and qualifications. The project was funded through the Aviva Community Fund to offer young women a safe place to meet up with friends and family to socialise and participate in themed activities each Saturday at a social café at our Sheffield Centre.
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Together Women’s centre in Leeds delivers holistic support in a safe and confidential environment to women with multiple and complex needs in Leeds city centre and the surrounding districts.