The Oswin Project

The Oswin Project (www.oswinproject.org.uk) offers second chances to prisoners and former offenders through: mentoring and training programmes within real trading enterprises based in HMP Northumberland; offering a bridge of opportunity to individuals on release through volunteering and employment in Oswin Project enterprises in the community; and providing a springboard from our own enterprises to paid work with external employers. Our primary aim is to break the cycle of reoffending. At a time when adults released from sentences of less than 12 months have a proven reoffending rate of 68.4% (Ministry of Justice, 2024) the Oswin Project’s reoffending rate is under 4%.