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During 2008-10 CJIW:
- Worked with over 4,000 service-users across Wales.
- Delivered 2,120 Open College Network units through our partnership with YMCA Community College.
- Supported 115 young people in the achievement of Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards and helped another 1400 gain sectional certificates.
- Ran 23 Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expeditions with 128 participants.
- Helped 673 service-users into employment or further education.
- Recruited, trained and deployed 106 volunteers to support participants across Wales.
- Employed 29 full-time and three part-time staff.
- Employed 16 young people under the Future Jobs Fund.
- Successfully delivered the Future Skills Demonstrator project on behalf of the National Offender Management Service.
- Provided Circles of Support and Accountability to 34 high-risk sex offenders.
- Devised, organised and ran two diversionary summer football academies involving 350 participants.
- Organised and supervised 8,200 hours of unpaid work for 16-18 year olds, with 87 successfully completing this element of their orders.
- Expanded our partnership with YMCA Community College growing from a total of 620 OCN units delivered in 2007/8 to a planned 2,500 in 2010/11.
- Continued delivery of the Endeavour Award, a modular personal development programme accredited by the Open College Network for those aged over 25.
- Developed delivery of the Adventure Services Challenge for 8-14 year olds in Swansea and Gwynedd/Mon Youth Justice Services.
- Helped service-users raise £10,000 through sponsored activities for the purchase of a cancer-care bed at Glan Clwyd Hospital, Denbighshire.
- Achieved 117 positive press reports highlighting young people’s positive contribution to their communities, as well as 16 broadcast media features.
- Supported the development of Arc Communities, a faith based project providing assistance to homeless people in Bangor and Colwyn Bay.
- Developed an agricultural social enterprise in Denbighshire providing horticultural training for 150 young people each year.
- Received £370,000 in new funding from the BIG Lottery, Tudor Trust and Rhyl City Strategy to support project delivery.
- Recognised by awards for good practice by North Wales Criminal Justice Board, Wales Council for Voluntary Action and the Howard League for Penal Reform.
