For young adults inside or leaving prison. Delivered in collaboration with EY Outreach and an ecosystem of statutory and community agencies. The pilot programme at HMP Brinsford was funded by the Violence Reduction Partnership.
What Makes This Programme Different
At the heart of this programme is a creative intervention that most programmes would never attempt: each cohort of young adults writes, performs, and produces their own short film together as a group.
This is not a media exercise. It is an identity exercise. The process of creating their own story forces each participant to answer the question TIM builds everything around: who am I, and who am I becoming?
The finished film is a digital asset that belongs to them - a permanent, tangible record of a redirected identity that no one can take away.
Resettlement fails when it treats release as a logistics problem. Accommodation, employment, benefits - none of it holds if the person walking out of the gate still identifies as an offender.
Identity is the intervention that makes everything else hold.
From the Cohort
The young men on the Resettlement & Rehabilitation Programme at HMP Brinsford didn't just complete a 12-week course. They created something that belongs to them - a short film, a permanent record of a redirected identity, and a reminder of who they chose to become.
83% of participants left with a positive outcome. Every single one left with something no system can take away.
The Programme in Action
The promo film from the Brinsford cohort - evidence of what identity-led intervention looks like in practice.
HMP & YOI Brinsford · Resettlement & Rehabilitation Programme · VRP Funded
Specialist Input
In 2024, EY Outreach brought us in to deliver identity and mindset sessions at HMP ISIS as part of a programme they were commissioned to run by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC). It's a second commissioner, in a second region, choosing to bring TIM's content in as a specialist input, proof the method holds up outside one prison and one relationship, even where we weren't running the whole show.
Commissioned by the Mayor of London's
Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)
HMP ISIS · London · An EY Outreach programme commissioned by MOPAC · Identity and mindset sessions delivered by TIM
The Programme
Twelve weeks, delivered in four phases and built around the I.N.V.E.S.T. framework. Identity work, a creative intervention, and resettlement planning, integrated rather than bolted together.
| Foundation | Participants begin to separate who they are from their offence, their label, and their history. |
| Creative Development | Each participant shapes the story they want to tell. |
| Production | Participants create and feature in their own short film with professional support, and own the finished asset. |
| Integration | Resettlement planning runs alongside the identity work, with employment, education, and community connections secured through partner agencies. |
Full programme structure, session content, and facilitator materials are TIM's intellectual property, and are shared with commissioning partners under agreement.
Outcomes - HMP Brinsford (2022–23)
The Invested Man Ltd is the named Recipient and Accountable Body on the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner's grant for the Resettlement within Brinsford Project. When a project is delivered by a consortium, the Commissioner names the lead. That was us.
All outcomes tracked and attributed by the delivery partnership. Delivered at HMP & YOI Brinsford in collaboration with EY Outreach.
What Happened After
The part we're proudest of happened after. The participants who made it through didn't just leave, they became the people who run it. They designed and delivered a workshop to twelve school students on the edge of exclusion while still serving their own sentence, and they're still using the film they made to teach the programme to their peers today.
We don't run a programme and leave. We build something that keeps running without us in the room.
Who We Work With
TIM co-designs with prison leadership teams and integrates with the resettlement infrastructure already in place - not replacing it, but giving it an identity foundation to build on.
This programme uses a multi-agency approach - bringing together specialist partners across coaching, personal development, creative media, and statutory services to deliver a holistic resettlement experience.
| Prison SLTs | Co-designed with Senior Leadership Teams - built around the specific context of each institution. |
| EY Outreach | Lead delivery partner, bringing coaching capacity, creative expertise, and community connections. |
| Jordz Visuals | Creative media partner - supporting participants in the production of their own short film as a digital identity asset. |
| Compass for Life | Personal development - guiding participants through structured self-discovery and life-skills work. |
| Goldmine Coaching | Coaching partner - providing 1:1 and group coaching throughout the programme. |
| In House Records | Music production partner - working with young adults to create original soundtracks for their short films. |
| Prison Radio Association | HMP Brinsford cohort participated in a live podcast broadcast on National Prison Radio (NPR) - giving participants a platform and a public voice. |
| VRP | Violence Reduction Partnership - lead funder, recognising TIM's model as credible and evidence-based. |
| Statutory agencies | Probation, housing, benefits, and health services integrated into the delivery ecosystem. |
| Community orgs | Local organisations providing ongoing connection and support post-release. |
Our Delivery Partners
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