Payback Pathways to Employment and Food Security
Giving skills to offenders through providing food for those in need
Working with Nornir Social Enterprise , HeartEdge and churches in Greater Manchester, Burnley, Hull, Nottingham, Exeter and North Wales to develop an innovative Community Payback model providing opportunities for offenders subject to unpaid work requirements to grow food and raise funds for food banks and alternative food-aid providers, whilst developing pathways to paid employment to lift themselves out of food poverty on successful completion of their unpaid work requirement.
See our evidence to the APPG on Ending the Need for Food Banks Inquiry ’Cash or Food? Exploring Effective Responses to Destitution’.
Putting into practice our policy development work at
“Putting the community back into payback” (2019) in Fox,A. and Frater, A. (eds) Crime and Consequence: what should happen to people who commit criminal offences? CLINKS/Monument Fellowship. London.
‘Giving Back by ‘Paying Back’: Recasting Community Payback as ‘Mutual Restitution’ through Financial Payback – Making a Restorative Justice System a Reality through Co-operatives and Values-based Purposeful Companies?‘ (2021) British Journal of Community Justice. Vol. 17: Issue 1.