Our goals are to help people who are serving sentences in prison or in the community to turn around their futures. We do this by providing training and 12 months paid transitional employment to people serving sentences. Alongside this they receive strength-based coaching to support them to achieve their own personal goals.
The Turnaround Project was set up with a vision of shifting the boundaries between the justice system and the wider community within Northern Ireland.
Our goals are to help people who are serving sentences in prison or in the community to turn around their futures; and to turn around the wider community, encouraging others to support people on that journey.
We do this by providing training and 12 months paid transitional employment to people serving sentences within our grounds maintenance social enterprise (Outwork) and our bike refurbishment social enterprise, Big Loop Bikes.
Alongside this they receive strength-based coaching to support them to achieve their own personal goals.
QUB and Hydebank Students have been involved with Big Loop Bikes from the very beginning. The idea for the social enterprise was theirs and the Big Loop shop on the QUB campus operates with transitional employees coming out of the justice system and QUB volunteers working side by side.