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Our two year programme offered tailored support for social entrepreneurs with ideas that reimagined the delivery of public services. The programme is now closed to new applicants, however we are working with ventures via the GoodTech Ventures programme.
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The programme, supported by the National Lottery Community Fund, included a full-time salary to enable
entrepreneurs to fully focus on the growth of their idea, guidance and feedback from Catch22’s frontline
delivery partners and experts, and desk space and support in our head office.
The social entrepreneurs we supported developed new approaches to ensure the wellbeing of young people and to overcome significant obstacles to employment, including those with learning disabilities or criminal convictions.
Our entrepreneurs worked towards Catch22’s collective goal of giving every person the pathway to having good people around them, a fulfilling purpose, and a safe place to live.
Catch22 have given us the structure and support we needed to be able to launch and now scale Unlocked. Catch22 incubation is invaluable: it is relational rather than transactional, and for me this aspect has made it particularly authentic and therefore effective.
Natasha Porter, CEO and Founder of Unlocked Graduates
Founded by Emmanuel Akpan-Inwang, Lighthouse Pedagogy Trust aims to revolutionise children’s care homes in the UK. After spending time in children’s care homes and researching best practice models across Europe, he has developed a model that aims to improve outcomes for the children that in live in these homes.
Natasha Porter was inspired to setup Unlocked Graduates after an influential 2016 review of prison education. Unlocked Graduates is working to change the way we develop society’s future leaders and how we think about prisons – by focusing on rehabilitation and addressing the terrible damage and cost of reoffending.
Launched in 2016 by Yorkshire’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Jacob launched Offploy to support people with criminal convictions into meaningful and sustainable employment. Offploy works with employers and employees, to address the UK’s chronic skills shortage, to reduce reoffending, and to make society safer for all.
Rachael Box created the London Village Network (LVN) in response to her frustrations at the lack of opportunities available for at-risk young people on her estate. The LVN app, programmes and opportunities database ensure that every young person has access to positive networks and an equal chance to reach their full potential.
Caught in the justice system for more than 10 years, Mifta Choudhury turned his life around and now supports young people. Youth Ink facilitates open discussions between young people and ex-offenders, to produce interventions for those at risk of entering the justice system.
Tracy Hammond wanted to help people with learning disabilities, mental health problems and autistic spectrum disorders enter the workforce. She created an ethical employment agency that will support adults with learning disabilities to find work.
Parenting is the greatest factor influencing a child’s development. Devie was a virtual coach to support parents’ goals and wellbeing alongside existing family support services, developed by designer Puja Balachander and early childhood educator Laura White.
David Hinton
Project Lead
The Incubate, Accelerate, Amplify programme is now closed to new applicants.
However, if you have created a tech-enabled solutions for supporting young people to access jobs and navigate the future of work, our GoodTech Ventures programme could be for you.
GoodTech Ventures is helping impact-led founders and leaders at early-stage tech ventures to design, build and deploy game-changing digital technologies into social and public service delivery.
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Catch22 may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:
Specific detail of each processing activity is provided below.
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Catch22 processes your job application data for the purpose of its legitimate interest to process your HR information.
For more information, please see the SmartRecruiters privacy notice.
Through the SmartRecruiters job application system, it is also possible to sign up for job alerts, which will let you know when new jobs that meet your criteria have been posted.
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For more information, please see the SmartRecruiters privacy notice.
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Catch22 will only process your contact details and send you newsletters following your freely-given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent.
You have the right to unsubscribe from any of our email mailing lists at any time. If you wish to unsubscribe from a Catch22 mailing list please click the unsubscribe link on the latest email or contact dpo@catch-22.org.uk to ensure that you do not continue to receive email newsletters from us. We will need to continue to hold your details after you have unsubscribed to ensure that we do not send you further communications.
For more information, please see the Mailchimp or Salesforce privacy notices as appropriate.
Catch22 processes the data submitted through any of our website contact forms for the purpose of receiving your message and responding to it under the lawful basis of consent, which you give when submitting the form.
We will only use the information supplied to us to deal with the enquiry and any subsequent issues, and to check on the level of service we provide.
These contact forms are processed using the WordPress plugin, Gravity Forms. When these forms are submitted to us, notification emails are automatically generated to send your enquiry to the appropriate team within Catch22 who will store your email for as long as is required to deal with your enquiry and any subsequent issues.
Form submissions are also stored within the Catch22 WordPress database for a period of 90 days. This allows us to identify if there are any issues with forms being received by our teams. After this time, forms and all accompanying personal data are automatically deleted from the system. Gravity Forms does not receive copies of any of forms, or any accompanying personal data, that are submitted via the Catch22 website.
If using our online chat service, Click4Assitance, data collected through the chat service may be shared internally within Catch22 to provide support and improve services.
You have the right to withdraw consent for us to contact you at any time by contacting dpo@catch-22.org.uk. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, which in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner’s Office.
For more information, please see the Gravity Forms privacy notice.
Complaints can be submitted using our online feedback form, by emailing feedback@catch-22.org.uk, or by post. Catch22 undertakes the processing of your complaints data as part of its legitimate interests.
When we receive a complaint from a person we make up a file containing the details of the complaint. This normally contains the identity of the complainant and any other individuals involved in the complaint.
We will only use the personal information we collect to process the complaint and to check on the level of service we provide.
We usually have to disclose the complainant’s identity to whoever the complaint is about. This is inevitable where, for example, the accuracy of a person’s record is in dispute. If a complainant doesn’t want information identifying him or her to be disclosed, we will try to respect that. However, it may not be possible to handle a complaint on an anonymous basis.
We will keep personal information contained in complaint files in line with our retention policy. This means that information relating to a complaint will be retained for six years from closure. It will be retained in a secure environment and access to it will be restricted according to the ‘data minimisation’ principle.
For more information, please see the Complaints, Compliments and Feedback policy.
The Data Processor (the organisation that does data processing on behalf of Catch22) is Totally.Tech.
Catch22 also works with third-party data processors to provide our:
We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They will hold it and retain it for the period we instruct.
Individual Catch22 services may work with additional third-party data processors in line with their contractual requirements. For more information, please see the relevant Service Privacy Notice, which can be downloaded from their service page on this website, or found by searching for the service by name in our Policy Library.
Catch22 may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or data processors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy notice.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:
Except as provided in this privacy notice, Catch22 will not provide your information to third parties without your consent.
Catch22 will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure, encrypted password and firewall protected servers. As data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
Where information is held on our behalf by data processors, we will ensure, to the best of our ability, that they hold your information securely and in line with data protection legislation. We hold contracts with all data processors to make sure that they cannot do anything with your data unless we have instructed them to do so.
We may update this privacy notice from time-to-time. Check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
Please contact the Data Protection Officer if you have any queries regarding this Privacy Notice or if you would like to exercise or query any of the following rights afforded to you under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
- right to access
- right to erasure
- right to object
- right to rectification
- right to be informed
- right to restrict processing
- right to data portability
- rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling
- right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) – via the Complaints page on the ICO website or by calling 0303 123 1113
For further information on your rights, please visit the Individual Rights page on the ICO website.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or of our treatment of your personal data, please email dpo@catch-22.org.uk or write to:
Data Protection Officer
Catch22
27 Pear Tree Street
London
EC1V 3AG
Catch22’s data protection registration number is Z1473239
Our services aim to prevent first-time entrance into the criminal justice system, intervene when young people have committed an offence, and support young people subject to youth justice.
Our primary schools and academies provide alternative and special education to children between the ages of 5-11.
Our services provide targeted, age-appropriate substance misuse services for young people, that put the young person at the centre of treatment.
Our children’s homes enable children in care to have the same opportunities as everyone else, using a social pedagogy approach that focuses on relationships and education.
Our core employability programmes equip individuals facing barriers to work with the skills and confidence they need to sustain in work or training.
Our services promote early diagnosis of a range of health issues through raising awareness of, and creating pathways into, health screening opportunities.
Our services work in prisons and the community to reduce the risk posed by gang-involved individuals and, ultimately, reduce the number of violent incidents.
Our services build personal resilience, through welcoming, non-stigmatising support that see and hear individuals where and when they need it.
Our services support young people leaving care as they transition to independence, to ensure that they have the same opportunities as other young people.
Our digital skills programmes are designed to provide opportunities for people from excluded groups to get working in digital or tech enabled roles.
Our secondary schools and academies provide alternative and special education to young people between the ages of 11-18.
Our post-16 colleges provide progammes for learners aged 16-19 who, for whatever reason, do not want to stay in a traditional academic environment.
Our services support individuals and families who are facing housing issues and/or who are at risk of homelessness, helping them to stabilise their situation.
Our services provide long-term support from the point of entry into prison to an individual’s transition back into the community, with the aim of reducing re-offending.
Our social action programmes enable young people to come together to meet new people and learn new skills whilst doing something positive for their local community.
Our needs-focused services empower victims and witnesses to cope and recover from the impact of crime and anti-social behaviour, by providing a range of support including emotional and practical guidance, advocacy and advice.
We provide support for young people, professionals, parents, and carers, with the aim of preventing or stopping child exploitation and missing incidents.
