Changing Focus – Changing Lives workshop (February 2026)
Moving away from crime requires acceptance, employment and housing. Much good work is done to tackle that directly, but here at the Sir Halley Stewart Trust we have been struck by the ways in which other, more indirect, methods can release potential that can otherwise feel locked-in.
On 25 February 2026, the Sir Halley Stewart Trust held a one-day workshop – “Changing Focus – Changing Lives” – aimed at:
• Enabling charitable projects to exchange experiences of working in non-linear/indirect ways to help reduce re-offending and increase resettlement for offenders, and to provide new networks to support future opportunities.
• Influencing public policy around these complementary ways of supporting people out of a criminal lifestyle and living more settled and contributory lives.
• Enabling funders to develop their grant-making in this area.
With the help of our Nifty Fox live scribes on the day, the attendee projects, funders, criminal justice network and magistrate representatives produced this set of key recommendations and action points, relevant to all organisations with an interest in this field.
You can view the full gallery of live scribe outputs from the workshop here [https://www.niftyfoxcreative.com/gallery/changing-focus-changing-live], including summaries from each project that presented their work on the day.
If you have any questions about this event, or ideas for how the Trust might be able to work with your organisation to further progress in this area, please contact our Clerk, Liz Fathi.