More Than Our Past
— is for prisoners, ex-prisoners, their family, friends and a healthier community...

More Than Our Past are here to help you. We are not here to judge anyone. We do not care if you, family or friends are innocent or guilty - our aim is to assist in yours and/or their future. At one level helping people from the police, charges, court process and getting away the revolving door of imprisonment. At another level assisting friends and families during the time of a loved ones imprisonment. Finally leading to creating a healthier community for one and all...

• More Than Our Past is not aligned to any faith, church, religion and/or denomination…
• More Than Our Past is here for the relief of poverty, misfortune, destitution, disadvantage, distress, dispossession, helplessness and suffering amongst prisoners, ex-prisioners, their families and friends…
• More Than Our Past is here to facilitate rehabilitative and restorative justice programmes…
• More Than Our Past is here to provide direct benevolent relief by way of services to prisoners, friends and their families to overcome and alleviate the causes of disadvantage and the effects of poverty, misfortune, destitution and helplessness including but not limited to:-
  •   1. More Than Our Past is here to provide dedicated volunteer support to prisoners, their family and friends…
  •   2. More Than Our Past is here to assist with food and accommodation for newly released prisoners…
  •   3. More Than Our Past is here to maintain contact with prisoners through regular and frequent visits…
  •   4. More Than Our Past is here to offer services to those prisoners who can derive comfort and benefit from connecting to another person…
  •   5. More Than Our Past is here to facilitate rehabilitative and restorative justice programmes…
  •   6. More Than Our Past is here to support the needs of prisoners…
  •   7. More Than Our Past is here to provide early support for prisoners living with a mental illness or disability…
  •   8. More Than Our Past is here assist with a prisoner’s transition back into the community…
  •   9. More Than Our Past is here to provide more pathways for safe and sustainable bail and parole…
  • 10. More Than Our Past is here to repair the harm caused to people, relationships, and communities by crime…
  • 11. More Than Our Past is here to reduce the chance of future reoffending…
  • 12. More Than Our Past is here to improve self-esteem, encourage social responsibility and teach basic life skills such as budgeting and cooking to prisoners...
  • 13. More Than Our Past is here to provide care and practical assistance for families of prisoners...
  • 14. More Than Our Past is here to provide opportunities for victims of crime to participate in restorative justice programs...
• More Than Our Past is here to provide assistance for the health, education, housing, employment, transportation services, communication services, training, maintenance, advancement and welfare of prisoners and their families in necessitous circumstances...
• More Than Our Past is here to undertake economic development opportunities for the benefit of prisoners and their families...
• More Than Our Past is here to represent the interests of prisoners and their families in the area of business, trade and commerce...

• More Than Our Past are not lawyers and do not provide legal advice…

• More Than Our Past is waiting to meet and get to know you…