Every game is a second chance.
Turning time served into time to shine.
The Twinning Project works with professional sports teams and correctional services to deliver coaching, mentoring, and training in custodial environments. Using the power of sport, we help participants build skills, confidence, and purpose creating pathways into education, employment, and community life. It’s not just about playing the game, it’s about changing it for good.
We all make mistakes. Don't let that be a reason to give up on somebody.
A large number of prisoners have no qualifications prior to custody. Many have been excluded from school and most leave custody without any employment or training opportunity.
Most prisoners are reluctant to engage with the mainstream educational and vocational training on offer whilst in custody. Surprisingly, although most prisoners self-report as being broadly inactive prior to custody, once in custody prisoners partake in sessions of physical activity.
The Twinning Project will support correctional facilities in their aim to increase and sustain this engagement in sport and thereby improve the mental, physical health and wellbeing of those in custody.
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How it's done
The Twinning Project is a partnership between Criminal Justice and professional sport with the objective of twinning custodial facilities with a local professional sports team. The aim is to engage prisoners into sports-based programmes to improve their mental and physical health, whilst providing up-skilling and life skills that will help improve their life chances and opportunity on release.
Never look down on someone, unless it’s to offer them a hand up.
Rev Jesse Jackson
Engage
Engage in rehabilitation services while incarcerated and foster connections between sports teams and correctional facilities.
Offer
Enhance skills and education while incarcerated to guarantee employability and opportunities. Improve mental and physical wellbeing.
Impact
The result is lasting change, individual transformation that contributes directly to a safer, more resilient society for all.
Inspiring stories
Discover powerful stories of transformation that reflect the true impact of our work. These voices reveal resilience, growth, and renewed hope among the individuals we support, showing how sport, education, and opportunity can change lives. Together, they demonstrate the strength of our community and the lasting difference rehabilitation can achieve.
Make a difference today
If you would like to support the Twinning Project and help us transform lives through education, sport, and rehabilitation, please reach out —together we can make a lasting difference.
Proudly supported by
The Twinning Project is proud to be supported by its valued partners, whose commitment and collaboration strengthen our mission to create positive change. Their support enables us to reach more communities, provide greater opportunities, and build lasting impact. Together, we share a vision of transforming lives through education, sport, and rehabilitation, fostering brighter futures for individuals and society.
