Jump to navigation OUR SERVICES ABOUT JOBS NEWS LOG IN DONATE SEARCH THIS SITE MENU OUR SERVICES OUR ORGANISATION OUR THINKING HOME » OUR ORGANISATION » ABOUT SACRO Our President Board Staff About Sacro Offices Recruitment Governance Strategy Volunteering Gender Pay Gap Feedback and Complaints About Sacro Sacro is a Scottish community justice organisation which works to deliver life-changing services that empower people, give hope and protection, and help to build safe communities. Sacro provides a wide range of direct, innovative services in Community Justice, Public Protection, Care and Housing. All our services are designed to help build safe communities by reducing conflict and offending. The organisation works with a broad range of people, including those harmed by crime and those responsible for that harm. As a Scotland-wide voluntary organisation, we are committed to providing services that contribute to positive transformational changes in the lives of our service users. We work independently and collaboratively within Scotland’s communities to provide support, prevent conflict and challenge offending behaviour wherever the need arises. Our services are based on research evidence, service user feedback, international standards of good practice and a commitment to development and innovation. Since its inception, Sacro has grown and developed services all across Scotland for individuals who need our support, guidance or monitoring to reduce the risk of further conflict or offending. Sacro has played its part by contributing to reducing reoffending with the figures for recorded crime in Scotland decreasing year-on-year. Sacro’s work has a tangible and far-reaching benefit for the people of Scotland, its communities and society. Although the organisation has changed and evolved over its 50 years, we know that supporting and guiding our service users through positive transformational life changes contributes greatly to a reduction in their conflict and offending. Sacro’s Vision Scotland will be a place of safety, inclusiveness, and wellbeing for everyone. Sacro’s Mission Our mission is to deliver life-changing services that empower people, give hope and protection, and help to build safe communities. Sacro’s Values and Principles Inclusion (EDI) Not judging Respecting people Trust Kindness Empowering people Inspiring people History Sacro has spent almost 50 years working to reduce conflict and offending in Scotland. Initially, volunteers provided a drop-in centre in Edinburgh, a hostel in Glasgow and a travel services for families of prisoners from the two cities to Scottish prisons. Over the years, locally managed Sacro services were set up throughout Scotland and in November 1971, formed The Scottish Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (SACRO). Much of the focus of this original Association is as relevant today as it was then. In these early years, SACRO volunteers provided ex-prisoners and their families with friendship, support and guidance following release. Problems of loneliness, homelessness and disassociation from society were constant barriers to effective rehabilitation and SACRO provided this vulnerable group with much-needed support. In 1992 SACRO’s independent local services merged into a single organisation. In 1998 the Board took the decision to rebrand the organisation by dispensing with the acronym and using the descriptor: “Safeguarding Communities – Reducing Offending”. This was to reflect a shift in emphasis of its work from working only for the welfare of individual offenders, to an organisation where services were working with communities and with offenders and their families to make communities safer. It was also to reflect that Sacro is working “with” not “for” offenders, respecting and believing in their capacity for personal responsibility and change. SACRO National Office 29 Albany Street Edinburgh EH1 3QN Tel: 0131 624 7270 Fax: 0131 624 7269 EMAIL CONTACTS Chief Executive: chiefexecutive@sacro.org.uk Events: events@sacro.org.uk Media: info@sacro.org.uk ADDITIONAL INFO PRIVACY COOKIES ACCESSIBILITY TERMS OF USE SITEMAP RSS Sacro is a company incorporated under the Companies Act, limited by guarantee. Company reg. No. SC086651. Registered charity No. SC016293. Registered office at 29 Albany Street, Edinburgh EH1 3QN. Honorary President: The Rt. Hon. Lord Carloway.