Funding: £60,000 a year from the Football Foundation
Aim: To reduce re-offending by using sport to engage young offenders in custody
An innovative scheme in Bristol is attempting to reduce reoffending rates by getting young offenders involved with sport.
The Second Chance Project was set up last summer at Ashfield Young Offender Institution, Gloucestershire, as a result of a custodial programme designed to engage offenders and improve behaviour, achievement, skills and attitudes. It uses sport, including football, cricket, rugby and boxing to engage and educate young people, and works to find them sport-related work or training once they leave Ashfield.
Around 120 young men, a quarter of Ashfield's population, are members of the Ashfield College Sports Academy, with many others on a waiting list.
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