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28 May 2025

Join us: Why now is the perfect time to become Chair of Why me?

This is a blog by Will Jacks, Why me?’s Vice Chair of Trustees.   Why me? is a small charity

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28 May 2025

New Sentencing Review: What is it and what does it mean for RJ?

This is a blog by our CEO, Sara Dowling.   Last week, the Government published their long-awaited Sentencing Review, led

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21 May 2025

Meet the practitioner: Karen Holgate

This is an interview with Karen Holgate, Operations Manager at Victim Support.   What is your name? My name is

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20 May 2025

Restorative responses and interfaith instincts

This is a blog by our Restorative Justice Trainer and Service Coordinator, Mark Hamill.   The Interfaith Restorative Justice Project,

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14 May 2025

Creating a safer Criminal Justice System 

This is a blog by our Communications and Campaigns Manager, Keeva Baxter.   Last week I spoke at a Research

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12 May 2025

Violence in Schools 

This is a blog by our Restorative Justice Lead, Mark Hamill.   Last month, Mark attended an online meeting of

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8 May 2025

“It seems that we missed a major opportunity for restorative justice”

This is a guest blog by Penelope Gibbs, Director of Transform Justice, originally published under the title “I just went

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30 Apr 2025

Capturing the stories of Restorative Justice

This is a blog by our Communications and Campaigns Manager, Keeva Baxter.   Storytelling is an integral part of the

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23 Apr 2025

Overhauling a broken system: The Times Crime and Justice Commission Report

This is a blog by our Communications and Campaigns Manager, Keeva Baxter.   Last week, The Times newspaper’s Crime and

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16 Apr 2025

Getting answers through parole hearings

This is a blog by our Communications and Campaigns Manager, Keeva Baxter.   As of the beginning of this month

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28 Mar 2025

Why me? at Punch

This is a blog by our Communications and Campaigns Manager, Keeva Baxter.   Yesterday, (Thursday 27th March), the Why me?

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27 Mar 2025

Mitigating risk in Restorative Justice

This is a blog by our Communications and Campaigns Manager, Keeva Baxter.   Last week, we held our first forum

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26 Mar 2025

Calm and chaos: A story of probation

This is a blog by our Communications and Campaigns Manager, Keeva Baxter.   Simon Armitage, the Poet Laureate and a

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26 Mar 2025

Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline Through Restorative Practices

This is a guest blog by Faye Sellers, a volunteer for Why me? who is currently studying a Masters degree

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26 Mar 2025

Breaking out of the Justice Loop

This is a blog by our Communications and Campaigns Manager, Keeva Baxter.   Recently Why me? attended the Centre for