The Charity

The Youth Empowerment Vision
The vision of the charity is for all young people who have offended, or those who are identified as being at risk of offending, to have access to the relevant support and information from appropriately trained ex-offenders. Further, for all ex-offenders to have the opportunity to deliver effective interventions to young people supporting their own successful rehabilitation and resettlement.

The Youth Empowerment Mission
Our mission is to divert young people from crime by challenging their attitudes and behaviours and empowering them to explore social responsibilities and lifestyle choices. Further, it is to support the resettlement and rehabilitation of ex-offenders by ffering training and employment opportunities thereby maximising the likelihood of successful reintegration into the community.

The Patrons

Lord Ramsbotham was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales from December 1995 to December 2001. On March 2005 it was announced that he was to be elevated to a life peerage. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. He is Chairman of the Koestler Awards Scheme and Vice Chair of both the All Party Parliamentary Group for Learning and Skills in the Criminal Justice System. He is President of Unlock, the National Association of Ex-offenders and an Ambassador for the charity, the Prison Advice and Care Trust.

Youth Empowerment is also pleased to announce that Jonathan Lord MP for Woking has also agreed to be a Patron of the scheme. Jonathan is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament for Woking at the 2010 general election. He has been a school governor of an inner city school and has served on numerous other boards and voluntary bodies including Cities in Schools (an educational charity) He is looking forward to advising and helping the voluntary sector.

David Burrowes MP for Enfield, Southgate is our latest Patron to support the scheme. David was first elected as Member of Parliament in May 2005. Following his re-election with an increased majority, David was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon Francis Maude MP, Minister to the Cabinet Office and Rt Hon Oliver Letwin. Minister responsible for Government Policy. Since September David has been reappointed as PPS to Oliver Letwin, providing support to Oliver’s policy role across government and in particular in relation to drugs and alcohol treatment reform and future policy development. He has taken a leading role in scrutinising significant legislation including criminal justice and immigration, armed services, legal services, local government and public involvement in health and human fertilisation and embryos. He is particularly interested in the policy areas of drugs and alcohol, the criminal justice system, family policy and the voluntary sector.

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The Trustees

Trustee and Chair: Jackie Malton is a retired Det Chief Inspector with the Met Police with nearly 30 years experience. She is also an independent story line consultant and has acted as a consultant for television programmes such as ‘Eastenders’ and ‘The Bill’. She also works with serving prisoners addressing drug and alcohol dependency. Jackie has an MA in Creative Writing and is currently studying for an MSc in Addiction Psychology.

Trustee and Treasurer: Pauline Newton is a youth worker who has been involved with voluntary Youth Work projects all her life. She has worked in Surrey in various roles connected with children and young people over the past twenty five years including being Project Administrator of the Coldingley Crime Diversion Scheme for 5 years to 2008, which included keeping accounts.
In recent years she has worked part-time as a Youth Worker Trainer / Assessor / Internal Verifier for the Lifetrain Trust and as an External Verifier for youthwork NVQ’s for the Awarding Body ABC. She has also worked as a Volunteer Mentor for ex-offenders, working in collaboration with Surrey Probation Service.

She is now a pensioner and says that her various voluntary roles now leave no time for paid employment - being Treasurer of Youth Empowerment has been a big challenge, but an exciting one!

Trustee: Stewart Dakers (BA Oxon) spent 10 years at Ford Motor Co and BEA as an Industrial Relations Officer. 6 years as an Estate Worker, Nature Conservancy, 10 years Countryside Ranger Waverley BC and 5 years Countryside Officer Waverley BC. Further Stewart has experience of 4 years part-time youth worker, 8 years worker in charge as Detached Youth Work Surrey County Council, and 15 years advice line worker for IPSEA (special educational needs). 4 years Trustee for The Coldingley Crime Diversion Scheme and 4 years outreach worker supporting ex-offenders. He is also a freelance writer for The Guardian Newspaper.

Jerry Horwood: Business Advisor to the Youth Empowerment Crime Diversion Scheme.

Following senior marketing positions with Volvo and BMW in the 80s, Jerry founded a series of online technology companies specialising in publishing and the automotive sectors. In 2006 he sold most of his businesses in order to concentrate on his voluntary work with disadvantaged young people and advising small business start-ups. Jerry holds a number of volunteer roles with the Princes Trust as well as being a business mentor for SMEs in Surrey.

Youth Empowerment Crime Diversion Scheme Ltd. Registered charity in England (1136013). A company limited by guarantee, registered in England company number 7142210. Registered office: 84 Coleridge Road, Cambridge, CB1 3PJ