About us
Our vision and mission.
Our vision is to see an inclusive community where everyone has hope and opportunity.
Our mission is 'to work with society to enable people who have served sentences to turn around their futures'.
Our Values.
WE NURTURE HOPE
Each of us is more than our pasts. We use our past experiences to strengthen, and not to limit, our futures.
WE CREATE OPPORTUNITY
We enable, encourage and support each other to pursue new futures.
WE ALL PLAY OUR PART
Everyone works as part of the team, growing as individuals and helping to create more opportunities for others.
WE RESPECT EACH OTHER
We all have strengths and a positive contribution to make, so whatever our backgrounds, we work together to achieve our goals.
Our strategic plan.
Our Strategic Plan sets out the Outcomes and Objectives we will work to achieve over the next few years. But while we are clear about where we are going, we will be flexible about how we get there. We are open to exploring new ideas and approaches, and in particular to learning from people with lived experience of spending time in, and transitioning out of, the justice system.
We want Turnaround to be an organisation that works with people rather than for them. Rather than delivering pre-prepared solutions, we want to involve people in the creation and development of new approaches.
So, while our Strategic Plan sets out the broad framework within which we will work, it is also an invitation to work with us to redefine the boundaries between the justice system and the wider community.
Whatever you think you might be able to bring to the Turnaround Project – your ideas, experience, skills or enthusiasm – we invite you to join us as we work together to help turn futures around.
Our board.
NIALL CASEY
Our Board Chair, Niall is Director of Skills and Strategy Solutions at Invest NI, with a background in the private sector.
STEVEN BOYD
A Chartered Accountant and retired PwC Partner, Steven has worked globally throughout his career and has also led Corporate Social Responsibility programs. He is passionate about helping people overcome personal barriers to develop their interests and potential.
CHRIS BURNS
An experienced Consulting Director specialising in global transformation programmes, Chris is passionate about building effective team cultures and enabling meaningful, sustainable change.
EAMONN DONAGHY
An experienced tax consultant who enjoys working with people who are passionate about their business, with experience of charity and schools governance.
ANDREW HAMILTON CBE
Our Board Treasurer, Andrew has an extensive background in Northern Ireland’s public sector, latterly as Deputy Secretary in the Department for Communities.
SUE MCALLISTER CB
A former public servant who spent most of her career in the Criminal Justice System, Sue is a former Director General of the Northern Ireland Prison Service.
JUDITH THOMPSON
A Solicitor who specialised in litigation.
Our current funders.
The Turnaround Project has been developed through partnership and engagement with a wide range of organisations and generous financial or pro-bono support from others. Our current funders include:
