Community Payback helping feed the vulnerable
People on Community Payback are packing and distributing fruit and veg to help people in need across Greater Manchester. Up to eight service users carrying out unpaid work sentences made by the courts are assigned across a four-day week at EMERGE 3R’s FareShare GM warehouse, at New Smithfield Market in Openshaw, Manchester. The warehouse collects…
Your probation appointments continue during COVID-19
We have undertaken a great deal of work to make our offices safe so we can continue to deliver our services as safely as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your safety is our highest priority. We will only invite you into one of our offices if it has been risk assessed and is COVID-19 secure.…
Butler Trust commendation for CGM CRC’s Helen May
Probation case manager Helen May has received a Butler Trust commendation after one of the women she helped embrace a new life nominated Helen for transforming her life. The Butler Trust promotes best practice in the prison, probation and correctional facilities sectors. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal is the organisation’s patron and each year…
Justice trio are finalists in top award scheme
A trio of colleagues from across Interserve’s justice business are finalists in this year’s Butler Trust Awards in recognition of their efforts supporting offenders to make positive changes to their lives. Senior probation case manager Mike Ward, Integrated Through the Gate manager Sonia Leake, and volunteer Ian Sparshott have all made it through to the…
Great gran is Pride of Britain for work she does supporting offenders
Great grand mum Dena Murphy has scooped a highly prestigious Pride of Britain ‘Community Hero’ award in recognition of her efforts working with offenders on Community Payback. The 92-year-old, from north Manchester, has earned the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain accolade for the work she does in her neighbourhood. Community-minded Dena helps run a luncheon…
Community Payback helping feed the vulnerable
John is one of up to 20 offenders a day helping a charity pack food for the region’s vulnerable. Every member of The Bread and Butter Thing (TBBT) receives three bags of quality shopping for £7.50. Food donated by supermarkets from across Manchester and Trafford is collected and driven to the organisation’s warehouse where it…
Parishioners praise Community Payback
Parishioners at St James Church in Cheshire have praised offenders for the work they have done carrying out Community Payback maintaining the grounds. The churchyard, in Birch Heath Lane, Christleton, is one of scores of churches across the region supported by the Cheshire & Greater Manchester Community Rehabilitation Company’s (CGM CRC) unpaid work teams. Offenders…
Hidden Heroes to get their day in the spotlight
Interserve is backing an event showcasing the work carried out by probation colleagues supporting people to make positive changes to their lives. The company runs five CRCs that deliver probation services to offenders on Community Orders, Suspended Sentence Orders or who are on custodial licence from prison. The Butler Trust is a charity that was…
Stephen praises probation
Stephen Bell believes probation has helped stop him reoffending after getting a 47-month jail sentence for selling cannabis and cocaine. The 32-year-old, from West Horton, Bolton, is being supervised on licence by Cheshire & Greater Manchester Community Rehabilitation Company’s (CGM CRC) probation case manager Nadine Roberts. Stephen got into trouble after developing a drug habit…
Protecting women from domestic abuse
Probation services across the region are taking action to protect women from domestic abuse during COVID-19. The Merseyside Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) and Cheshire & Greater Manchester CRC have implemented a range of measures to prevent women from becoming victims and to look at new ways to deliver services following restrictions imposed by the pandemic.…