Yellow Ribbon Community Chaplaincy
Charity 1168292
Overview
Summary
Yellow Ribbon Community Chaplaincy appears to operate as a practical bridge between prison release and community stability in Shropshire. Its model combines immediate material support, including accommodation, with relational support through mentoring and work-linked activity through furniture restoration and a cafe project. This suggests an organisation addressing resettlement as a connected set of housing, purpose, skills and social-support needs, rather than as a single service. Its stated remit also extends to people at risk of offending and families, although the available activity evidence is more specific to people leaving prison.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- Direct evidence from the Charity Commission identifies Birmingham City as an area where the charity operates, but does not identify any Birmingham ward, recognised place, service location or physical site. No supplied area identifier can therefore be included confidently.
- The organisation's current website describes its supported accommodation as being across Telford, Stafford, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Shrewsbury, while describing its broader support as operating in the West Midlands. It does not specify whether its Birmingham activity is accommodation, mentoring, through-the-gate work, partnership referral activity or another service.
- The available evidence supports a regional operational identity rather than a neighbourhood-, district- or Birmingham-citywide identity: the charity reports activity across Birmingham City, Shropshire, Solihull, Telford & Wrekin and Walsall, and its website describes services across several West Midlands and neighbouring locations. This is a reasonable interpretation of its overall footprint, not evidence that it delivers services throughout every part of Birmingham.
- No current public evidence located identifies a Birmingham physical site. The registered and contact address is in Telford and should not be treated as a Birmingham operational site.
- The website states that Yellow Ribbon works with prison chaplaincies and reducing-reoffending teams in prisons in the West Midlands, which may extend its reach into Birmingham through partnerships, but it does not name a current Birmingham partner or prison.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, service directory or contract information that distinguishes Birmingham delivery from the charity's wider West Midlands activity.
- Confirmation from Yellow Ribbon of the Birmingham services currently delivered, including whether activity is direct delivery, through-the-gate mentoring, accommodation, or partner-led referral support.
- Non-sensitive information sufficient to identify any Birmingham service area without disclosing safeguarded accommodation addresses.
- Names of current Birmingham-based delivery partners and the geographical scope of those partnerships.
Areas of work
- Accommodation/housing
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Defined Groups
How they help
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A multi-stage resettlement model
The available evidence suggests the organisation treats successful resettlement as requiring both stability and participation: accommodation may provide an immediate base, while mentoring and project activity may help people rebuild routines, confidence and connections.
Why it matters
This distinguishes the organisation from a provider focused only on crisis housing or only on training. Its role may sit at the point where several common barriers after prison overlap.
Show evidence
“The charity provides accommodation, a furniture restoration and cafe project, and mentoring to people leaving prison.”
Source:Organisation“Its charitable objects include mentoring, training, accommodation and support services.”
Source:Charity Commission
Work-like settings may be central, not peripheral
The furniture restoration and cafe project may indicate that economic participation is embedded within the organisation's support model, rather than being treated as a later, separate outcome.
Why it matters
If these projects offer meaningful roles or training, they could connect rehabilitation with visible community contribution. This may create a distinctive route from support into skills, purpose and employment-related experience.
Show evidence
“The charity provides a furniture restoration and cafe project.”
Source:Organisation“The charity identifies education/training and economic/community development/employment among its activities.”
Source:Charity Commission
Its formal remit is broader than its visible delivery focus
There appears to be a potential gap between the broad population named in the charitable objects and the narrower description of current activity, which focuses on people leaving prison.
Why it matters
This is useful for understanding both opportunity and uncertainty: the organisation may hold capacity or ambition to support families and people at risk of offending, or those groups may be less visible in the available evidence.
Show evidence
“Its charitable objects include people in prison, people leaving prison, people at risk of offending and their families.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity provides accommodation, a furniture restoration and cafe project, and mentoring to people leaving prison.”
Source:Organisation
- Whether the cafe and furniture restoration projects provide employment, training, income generation, volunteering or another form of participation.
- Whether people in prison, people at risk of offending, families and young people currently receive distinct support.
- How the organisation works with prisons, probation, housing providers, employers or other local services.
Remaining uncertainties
- Information on participant pathways, outcomes and the role of each project in resettlement.
- Details of referral partners, local collaborations, service capacity and beneficiary groups.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The charity is based in Shropshire where it provides accommodation , a furniture restoration and cafe project as well as mentoring to people leaving prison.
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING, EDUCATION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY OF THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE IN PRISON, THOSE LEAVING PRISON, THOSE AT RISK OF OFFENDING AND THEIR FAMILIES BY PROVIDING RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION SERVICES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROVISION OF MENTORING, TRAINING, ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES