our vision and goals.
Our vision is to see an inclusive community where everyone has hope and opportunity.
All of our work is aimed at achieving two goals:
To help turn around the futures of people who are serving sentences in prison or in the community.
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To turn around the wider community, encouraging others to support people on their journey.
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our values.
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.
The Turnaround Project
Strategic Plan
2020-23
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 team.
Richard Good
Anne Gilmore
Tara O'Hara
Rebecca Teeney
Our Outwork Crews, led by Supervisors Davey & Brian
Our team is strengthened by short term and long term volunteers.
our board.
has an extensive background in Northern Ireland’s public sector, having recently retired from the position of Deputy Secretary in the Department for Communities
ANDREW HAMILTON CBE
a consultant specialising in prisons. Rachel is Director of the RSA’s Transitions Project and has 30 years of experience working with charities, think tanks and government, with particular expertise around prison policy.
RACHEL O'BRIEN
who uses his experiences and expertise from both lived experience of the justice system and academic research to create awareness of criminal justice processes.
MICHAEL IRWIN
who brings her expertise from her professional career in government – most recently as a Deputy Secretary in the Department for Employment and Learning
CATHERINE BELL CBE
a Solicitor who works for the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service
SARA DONNELLY-CLEGG
of McCartan Muldoon Architects - an experienced architect in this prize-winning practice, who has led the development of a wide range of projects in the public, private and third sectors
NEIL MCCARTAN
Chief Executive of a leisure and tourism company, who has bought, built and sold successful commercial businesses
COLIN MAYRS
Deputy Secretary in the Department for Communities, with responsibility for the Department’s ‘Engaged Communities Group’
MOIRA DOHERTY
Dean of Queen's University Belfast's Graduate School.
PROFESSOR
MARGARET TOPPING
our partners
and supporters.
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:
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