Student Volunteering Week 2015

Student Volunteering Week 2015

        Last week (23-28th February) POPS took part in Student Volunteering Week! A range of academic institutions and organisations are involved to celebrate the commitment of students and the support they offer through volunteering. At POPS we took...
Troubled, who me?

Troubled, who me?

Troubled, who me? Understanding the needs of offenders’ families and why         The expanded Troubled Families (TF) programme has ambitious service transformation goals and will work with a broader range of multiple problems. Moving forward, the TF programme will...

Visitor Centre Worker Vacancy

We are currently looking to recruit a visitor centre worker to assist the Family Services Coordinator to develop the Visitors Centre at HMP Styal into a welcoming place, where people visiting the prison, can spend time before and after their visit.

Early Years Worker Vacancy

We are looking for an Early Years Worker to take responsibility for providing crèche facilities and improving the quality of visits for children and their families. By providing this service the post holder will, thereby be helping to maintain family relationships and...
Hands launched at BBC

Hands launched at BBC

In 2014 POPS applied to the BBC Community Doorway Programme to explore the possibility of creating a short film that would enable families to share their experiences of stigma and discrimination on their own terms. In doing so we hoped to create not just a ‘final...