WHAT WE DO
​Only Connect is a criminal justice charity, founded in 2005. ​Over the last 20 years we have worked in all London prisons and most London boroughs, in schools, probation settings and our base in King’s Cross.
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Our work stresses responsibility, creativity, and relationship as the keys to desistance from crime.
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Only Connect delivers the Love & Money Project in prison and the community. Love & Money provides through-the-gate support to prisoners before and after release, equipping them with the skills to make good relationships at home and at work.
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Love and money are powerful motivators. The life most of us want is to be in a happy family or a good relationship, and to provide for ourselves and our loved ones through a good and fulfilling job.
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To succeed in love and money, we need to succeed with other people, domestically and professionally. Research into criminal desistance shows the central importance of positive relationships, and relational skills, in the decision to cease a life of crime.
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Key to Only Connect’s model is the relationships that form between our members - prisoners and ex-offenders - their families, and our staff and volunteers. We get to know their parents and partners, visit them at home, and understand their family dynamics. And we understand their experience of, and attitude to, the world of work.​​​
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THE TEAM
Stefan Assall (Keyworker)
Stefan delivers one-to-one keywork support and helps facilitate the Love & Money project in prisons and the community. He has a background in Social Work and Psychotherapy and has experience working with refugees.
Charlotte Ball (Keyworker)
Charlotte delivers one-to-one keywork support and helps facilitate the Love & Money project in prisons and the community. She holds a degree in Sociology and Criminology, and worked for two years in a Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) school for boys with behavioural needs.
Martin Brett (Chief Operating Officer)
Martin has worked at Only Connect since 2017. His duties include finance, human resources, and health and safety. He has a young family and is a keen musician and artist.
Lara Jonah (Trustee)
Lara is a Registered and Chartered Forensic Psychologist, with over 20 years' experience working in prisons and other criminal justice settings. She is one of the national clinical leads for domestic abuse programmes in HM Prisons and Probation Services at the Ministry of Justice.
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Danny Kruger (Chair of Trustees)
Danny is the co-founder of Only Connect, and was chief executive from 2005-2015. He has been a journalist and worked in Parliament and in Government, including as Civil Society Advisor at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Since 2019 he has been a Member of Parliament and is now the Shadow Welfare Minister.
Charlotte Rendle (Trustee)
Charlotte is a former deputy governor of a large London prison. She is now a psychotherapist in private practice.
Emma Kruger (Chief Executive)
Emma is the co-founder of Only Connect. She is a former English and Drama teacher in mainstream secondary schools, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulty (EBD) Units and Pupil Referral Units (PRUs). Emma leads our work in prisons and the community, including with our members' families.
Savi Uppal
(Business Development Director)
Savi heads up Only Connect's co-working space in Kings Cross. She has a background in event management specialising in building relationships with high net worth, corporate and VIP clients. Savi previously worked for the Major Gifts Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.
GET INVOLVED
Sponsorship
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Offenders are inspired by examples of entrepreneurial success - people who, through effort, creativity and teamwork, have seen real personal victory. Only Connect works with a network of businesspeople - OC Sponsors - who support Love & Money with their own time and funding. Sponsors meet groups of prisoners inside prison and after their release in the community.​​​
Employment Partners
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Only Connect’s members are frequently entrepreneurial, creative and rich in potential. Through our work with them they develop skills for professional success and the commitment to seek and sustain employment. We work with employers who want to broaden their recruitment - whether for work experience, apprenticeship or full employment - to include this large but marginalised source of talent.​
Volunteer
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Only Connect has always benefited from the commitment of time and expertise by volunteers. Whether that’s helping with our courses in prison, providing mentoring or opportunities to our members after release, or helping the charity itself with operations, fundraising or strategy - volunteers are vital to our work and themselves derive real value from the support they give.
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Donate
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Only Connect’s core costs are funded by our social enterprise co-working space. For our front-line work with prisoners and ex-offenders we rely on donations, grants and contracts from the public, from trusts and foundations, and from HM Prison and Probation. With more money we could do more work in more prisons and with more ex-offenders.
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To find out more about opportunities to sponsor Only Connect’s members, become an employment partner, volunteer or donate, please contact our Business Development Director Savi Uppal on savi.uppal@onlyconnectuk.org
CONTACT US
If you have any queries please contact us via:
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Main Office Telephone: 0207 278 8939 |
General Enquiries: info@onlyconnectuk.org
Only Connect
32 Cubitt Street
London
WC1X 0LR​
CO-WORKING SPACE
Only Connect’s head office offers suitable businesses and charities a spacious, affordable and flexible coworking space, situated in a stunning Grade II Listed building spanning 3 floors with wonderful character and natural light. Situated in the creative quarter of Kings Cross, just 7 mins walk from St Pancras Station, we also house large meeting and event spaces giving your business the room to grow. For more information please see here.
