Ex-cell

EX-CELL BASED IN HULME MANCHESTER

Wesley Enterprise Centre	Based in the heart of Hulme, Manchester, the Ex-Cell Programme provides access to accomodation and employment for homeless ex prisoners together with the long term support to make both accomodation and employment fully sustainable. Click here for Ex-Cell Power Point Presentation


Dave Nicholson Ex-Cell Co-ordinator	“ The Probation Service originated in the early years of the last century in the work of faith communities in advising, assisting and befriending ex-prisoners. Central to this was enabling them to gain access to sustainable employment and sustainable accommodation.The Ex-Cell Programme aspires to reinterpret those values in the context of the early 21st century.”


Barry Anderson	“I know from my own experience that trying to get a job after you’ve left prison is the hardest thing there is. No one’s interested in you if you’ve got any sort of criminal record.But Ex-Cell gave me a chance and now I’m helping them to help other ex-prisoners get into work."


Click on image to enlarge	In August 2006 Manchester Aspire Ltd partners Computer Aid International to supply refurbished computers to developing countries. In the UK over 70,000 PCs have been donated to Computer Aid International in just 6 years, enabling over 5,000 organisations in the developing world to benifit.


Click on image to enlarge	Manchester Apire Ltd loading container to Swaziland for Computer Aid International in November 2006.

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August 2006. Ex-Cell partners Manchester Aspire Ltd to supply refurbished IT equipment exclusively to Computer Aid International -- the world's largest non-profit supplier of computers to developing countries.

Ormand Williams, Director of Manchester Aspire Ltd said "This is a triple good news day! Firstly it creates a greater continuity of work for us, which provides a greater continuity of employment for ex-prisoners and a greater number of paid placements for Ex-Cell.

Secondly we can clearly demonstrate to our donors where their donated IT equipment will end up -- and show the good use to which it is being put in the schools and third sector organisations of the developing world. And thirdly it shows our continuing commitment to the increasingly important world-wide enviromental agenda"