The Lived
Experience Project

Built on lived experience

Skills. Real work. A future you can shape.

We’re building routes into skills, work and ownership with people affected by the justice system.

Community projects and commercial digital work are part of the model: practical work that helps fund the mission.

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THE LIVED EXPERIENCE PROJECT

Same door.
Same width.
For everyone.

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A community interest company. London, UK. See how it connects

The work pays
for the mission.

People bring expertise. Organisations bring real problems. Together, we’re building a route from learning to a future people can own.

Commercial fees Contribution comes back into the project.

This is the ambition we’re building towards, not a guarantee of training, employment or ownership.

Different routes.
One shared purpose.

Community connections, practical skills and a longer vision for life after prison. Here’s what each part is for, and how to get involved now.

01 Connect

LDN:KNEKT

Useful digital work. Stronger community connections.

For London charities, community organisations and businesses with a problem to solve.

Starting with conversations and real briefs

What this could look like

Websites, digital tools and practical AI support shaped around what an organisation actually needs. The model includes free work for eligible charities, community rates and paid commercial projects.

We discuss scope, eligibility, capacity and any cost with you first. Sending an enquiry does not confirm a free build.

Discuss a community project
02 Build

UP:SKILL

Learn by making something that matters.

For people interested in practical skills, and organisations that can bring a brief, tools or expertise.

Training pipeline in development

Training and support

The aim is to learn through real work, building a portfolio and useful experience. Partners can help shape it with projects, technology and mentoring.

RE:SET is the supporting part of the model: purpose, confidence and behaviour change alongside practical skills. The scope and availability of support are discussed directly; this is not a clinical treatment offer.

Cohort dates and places are not confirmed here. Request information to hear about next steps.

Ask about UP:SKILL
03 Rebuild

RE:ENTRY

A future beyond the gate.

A developing model for support before and after prison, with lived experience at its centre.

Future programme · not open for enrolment

The vision and who can help

The vision is a year of support, starting with sport, mentoring and trust, followed by practical skills and work. It depends on building and proving the model first.

We welcome early conversations with prisons, resettlement services, universities, funders and potential delivery partners. This is an invitation to help develop the programme.

Explore a partnership

Bring us a
real problem.

A clearer website. A process that takes too long. A useful tool that doesn’t exist yet. That’s where a conversation can start.

Illustrations of the work we can discuss, not completed TLEP case studies.

Websites & digital presence

Make it easier to find you.

Clear, accessible websites that help people understand your work and take the next step.

Discuss a website
Tools & automation

Give people their time back.

Practical digital tools and AI support built around the work you already do.

Discuss a digital tool

Commission a project. Help fund the mission.
Paid work is scoped separately from training and community offers.

Discuss paid work

Built by people
who care about this.

Lived experience and practical technical skills. Different perspectives, working towards the same purpose.

Theone

Founder

Released in 2007 and rebuilt a life through skills and a refusal to be written off. TLEP grows from that lived experience and the belief that people deserve a real opportunity.

Meet Theone

Josè

Website developer / Director

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Bring your skills

Have skills, time or an idea to contribute? Tell us what you’d like to work on.

Start a conversation

Everybody loves a good
comeback story.
Until it’s time to hire one.

Lived experience deserves more than applause. We’re working towards practical opportunities: a brief, a useful skill, a chance to contribute and a future with more choice.

Evidence, with context

The Ministry of Justice publishes national reoffending and employment evidence. It helps explain the problem. It is not evidence of TLEP’s impact.

Explore the national evidence

There’s more than
one way in.

Bring a project, share what you know, help shape a programme, or follow the story as it develops.

Start a conversation.

Email us with a little about your idea and what you’re hoping to do. Please leave out sensitive personal, health or offence details.

Community projectTalk through a need, scope or eligibility. Partnership, funding or researchBring a brief, tools, expertise or support. Paid digital workDiscuss a commercial project and budget.

These links open your email app. You can also write to hello@thelivedexperienceproject.org.

Ask for information.

Choose a programme, or opt in to general updates. An information request is not an application or a confirmed place.

You can request programme information or updates by emailing hello@thelivedexperienceproject.org.