Kainos Community delivers classroom and community-based offender rehabilitation programmes within prisons, with the aim of reducing reoffending and enabling offenders to live purposeful and stable lives during their sentences and post-release.
Impetus support package:
Impetus investment period: 2011 - 2012
(Planning phase investment*)
Planning phase funding: £37,500
Pro bono services donated:
£27,000
Investment management value: £84k
Total funding package to date: £148k
Impetus has invested in Kainos as part of the Impetus for
Reducing Reoffending Initiative.
Background to the investment:
Kainos is strongly embedded within the structure of the prisons
in which it operates and has an increasing level of data to
demonstrate the rehabilitative impact of the programme in addition
to the longer term impact on reoffending rates.
The impetus for our involvement is that Kainos has developed a
well-defined and distinctive model which is scalable and measurable
and which produces short and long-term economic and social
benefits. Kainos has ambitious growth plans and approached
Impetus as an engaged funder, which can support its scale-up
plan.
Focus of Impetus expertise 2010/11:
- Workshops for the CEO and Chair on strategy development and monitoring and evaluation
- Cost-benefit analysis of the Kainos Challenge to Change programme in prisons
- Review of strategic options in response to changes in the external market.
Key achievements 2010/11:
- Programmes renewed in all three prisons for at least 12 months, despite the economic uncertainty
- Kainos programme achieved high ratings in Prison Service audits.
Read more about Kainos Community.
| Year prior to investment 2009/10 |
Latest year end 2010/2011 |
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| Income (in millions) | £0.48 | £0.60 |
| No. of participants who completed the programme | 164 | 146 |
*Planning phase investment is an initial investment period to
develop the plan for growth. It is usually followed by further
investment over a longer period.
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Impetus pro bono expert