Trailblazers is committed to improving the lives of young offenders leaving custody by developing their abilities and self esteem to enable them to make positive choices.
Trailblazers run the only accredited mentoring programme inside a prison in the UK .
Our Education and Mentoring Programme has been running since September 1998 with a particular focus on improving the career prospects of young people leaving prison. Mentoring is now used widely among young people in the community. Unfortunately for those who have already made it to prison they will not have access to the huge range of mentoring initiatives outside which the Government is backing. This is where Trailblazers can fill this void and facilitate the inmate with a link to the outside world to help prepare him for his future. Young Offenders are also linked to a Volunteer Mentor from the community for one year.