CIRCLES OF SUPPORT AND ACCOUNTABILITY UK

Name

CIRCLES OF SUPPORT AND ACCOUNTABILITY UK

Website

https://circles-uk.org.uk

Company type

Private

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Restorative Justice Services

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Civic and Social Organizations (81341)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Reentry & Justice-Involved Support Services (BPAGAEAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Corrections (Probation, Parole & Reentry) (BPAIAFAE), Community Centers & Neighborhood Support Services (BPAGAEAL)

Keywords

• Restorative justice programs
• Offender reintegration services
• Community circle support
• Volunteer mentoring programs
• Criminal justice rehabilitation

Headquarters

HQ city

READING, BERKSHIRE

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Core offering

Circles of Support and Accountability UK is a community-based reintegration and support organisation that works with individuals following release from custody. The organisation arranges volunteer-led, group-based circles that provide practical and relational support to aid desistance and reintegration into the community.

Product overview

CIRCLES OF SUPPORT AND ACCOUNTABILITY UK operates as a community-based reintegration and support organization. No specific product or service portfolio information was available in the source data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Circles of Support and Accountability

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Direct peers

• Clinks: Clinks is the UK membership body for voluntary-sector organisations working in criminal justice. It is a direct peer in terms of the operating environment and funding ecosystem, although its role is infrastructure/membership rather than direct service delivery.
• Restart Network: Restart Network is a UK charity supporting people in contact with the criminal justice system into housing, work and stable lives after custody. It is a direct peer in the UK reentry and resettlement charity space, sharing volunteer engagement, statutory funding and policy advocacy dynamics.
• Howard League for Penal Reform: The Howard League is a UK charity working on penal reform, prison conditions and reducing reoffending through policy advocacy and frontline programmes. It is a direct peer as both operate in the UK criminal justice charity space targeting reintegration and rehabilitation outcomes.
• Prison Reform Trust: The Prison Reform Trust is a UK charity that works to reduce the prison population, improve prison conditions and promote rehabilitation. It is a direct peer as both charities operate in the UK penal-reform and rehabilitation ecosystem and engage with the same statutory commissioners.
• Shannon Trust: The Shannon Trust runs the Toe by Toe peer-led literacy programme in UK prisons, focused on reducing reoffending through education. It is a direct peer because both are small UK charities delivering volunteer-led in-prison and through-the-gate interventions to reduce reoffending.
• Nacro: Nacro is a long-standing UK criminal justice charity working on resettlement, reducing reoffending and housing support for people leaving prison. It is a direct peer given the shared reentry, rehabilitation and resettlement focus in the UK criminal justice sector.
• Lucy Faithfull Foundation: The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is a UK charity focused on preventing child sexual abuse, including through work with people who have committed sexual offences (Stop It Now! helpline and Circles-style programmes). It is a direct peer as it operates in the same UK niche of sex offender treatment, reintegration and public protection.
• Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA Canada): CoSA Canada is the originator of the Circles of Support and Accountability model that Circles UK implements. It is a direct peer as it operates the same volunteer-driven reintegration circles for people convicted of sexual offences in Canada, and effectively serves as the franchise parent and model licensor.
• Circles South East: Circles South East was one of the regional UK providers of the CoSA model before centralisation under Circles UK. It remains a closely related peer operating the same CoSA concept and engaging the same volunteer and statutory networks in the south of England.

Broad incumbents

• HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS): HMPPS is the UK statutory agency responsible for running prisons and probation. It is a broad incumbent peer as the principal commissioner and operational counterpart for UK reentry charities and effectively sets the policy and commissioning framework within which Circles UK operates.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/circles-of-support-and-accountability-uk

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

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