Our Work
How we work
3Pillars Project provides sports-based mentoring through our GAMEPLAN programme to inspire, challenge and empower young men within the criminal justice system. They start their journey with us whilst in prison and through our Rugby Academy they become part of a team, boosting their physical, mental and emotional health on and off the playing field.
We work with every young man as an individual, to their time frame, whether this is for months or years.
Participants can progress on to our Fit For the Future Academy to help them resettle into the community post release. Through mentoring and helping them to gain qualifications, training and employment opportunities, our apprentices are able to build a better future whilst in prison and beyond. Many of our programme graduates join our Leadership Community to give back at the end of the programme.
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What are the 3Pillars?
Exercise
Our expert coaching improves both physical and mental wellbeing.
Education
We offer qualifications and workshops to enhance employment outcomes.
Ethos
Excellent role modelling and mentoring lies at the heart of our work.
The Rugby Academy
Our in-custody programme is underpinned by foundations of teamwork, physicality, and leadership. Over an 8-week programme, we engage, develop, and establish long-term support and mentoring relationships to develop in young people the tools necessary to thrive.
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Our programme takes a group of 15 individuals in custody over an 8 week intervention and teaches them to play rugby. We develop teamwork, communication, and self-control, whilst being paired with workshops that address areas such as: regulation of emotion, family, relationships, and goal setting. Participants also complete a coaching qualification where-in they learn to present in front of others.
Fit For Future Academy
The Fit For Future Academy is an influential post-release mentoring approach that engages young prison leavers through a comprehensive sports-based employability model. The model engages a diverse range of individuals through physical activity, qualification attainment, and personal development opportunities, which lead to sustainable employment within the community and beyond. The pathway addresses factors related to offending behaviour and supporting a successful and sustainable transition back into society.
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3Pillars Fitness employs apprentices and coaches who are on our post-release pathway, supporting former prisoners to gain the skills and qualifications to ultimately secure sustainable employment and reduce one of the root causes behind re-offending. It is also an opportunity to build the core 'soft' business skills alongside work experience and qualifications that greatly improve job prospects.
The Leadership Community
The Leadership Academy takes committed individuals into the next phase of their development by supporting them to become leaders in their own right. This includes being part of the 3PP Development Advisory Board which feeds into the strategic direction of the charity, and gives them the opportunity to help design and amend current and future projects. Often, those in the Leadership Academy are well on their way to being a success, we then exist to be an independent sounding board, provide counsel and ongoing support to ensure they achieve their long-term ambitions.
