Custody and Community Programme
WomenCentre Calderdale is one of the projects supported by the Women’s Diversionary Fund (WDF), to which LankellyChase has contributed £250,000 this year. The WDF is managed by the Corston Independent Funders’ Coalition, a group of 21 charitable trusts, foundations and individual philanthropists set up to sustain a shift from imprisonment to community sentencing for vulnerable women offenders. Please read on.......
Since 2009 a coalition of endowed grant-making trusts have been working together to ensure that the recommendations concerning the treatment of women offenders as set out in Baroness Corston's 2007 report were not consigned to the back of a dusty shelf. The Corston Independent Funders Coaliton (CIFC) employed Antonia Bance as their Advocate Please read on.........