Golden Gates Housing Trust (GGHT) part of the Torus Group are leading a large multi-agency partnership called New Leaf to deliver the building better opportunities programme across Warrington and Cheshire East and West.

On average 270 women go through the 3 custody suites / under civil enforcement actions in Cheshire every month, approximately 50 % are for minor / low level offences, of the 135 women, a percentage will be unemployed and economically inactive and with intensive interventions could be supported into positive destinations and diverted from the criminal justice system. The New leaf Partnership want to provide services to those which are hardest to reach and engage, therefore GGHT wish to appoint suitably experienced organisations to provide a service to these women throughout the LEP area, between 4.2018 and 9.2019.

On average 270 women go through the 3 custody suites / under civil enforcement actions in Cheshire every month, approximately 50 % are for minor / low level offences, of the 135 women, a percentage will be unemployed and economically inactive and with intensive interventions could be supported into positive destinations and diverted from the criminal justice system. The New leaf Partnership want to provide services to those which are hardest to reach and engage, therefore GGHT wish to appoint suitably experienced organisations to provide a service to these women throughout the LEP area, between 4.2018 and 9.2019. This service is to engage with unemployed and economically inactive female residents of Warrington, Cheshire East and Cheshire West who the police have contact with for minor offences. Projects can provide combinations of mentoring and / or specialist support as required to remove barriers facing these women.