MEM Academy turns prison release, youth prevention and self-employment into one connected pathway, equipping lived-experience coaches to deliver fitness, mentoring and opportunity across communities.
MEM Academy gives MoJ, HMPPS, ICBs and Local Authorities a single piece of national infrastructure — gym network, AI tools, lived-experience coaches and live SROI — already built, already live, ready to commission.
Commissioners can buy a gym programme, a wellbeing app, an employment coach or an SROI consultancy — separately. MEM is the first platform that runs all four as one infrastructure, with lived-experience credibility at the centre.
Every link below opens a live tool already in use. All tools, explained · Self-employment hub · Business plan drafter · Finance & tax tools · Funding finder · Knowledge hub · Lived-experience hub · Coach directory · Clara — budgeting AI · MEM4PT playbook · Marketing hub · Income streams · Money & rates · Training hub · Curriculum — PT prep tracks · Go Live — train clients anywhere · Workout builder · Nutrition library · Corporate wellbeing hub
Live partner gyms across England with vetted lived-experience PTs ready to take referrals — no new estate required.
Clara (financial literacy), MEM Advisor, Marketing Coach, Grant Expert, Workout & Savings Advisors — all built on Lovable AI Gateway, using frontier models from Google (Gemini) and OpenAI (GPT-5). No per-user licences.
Coaches with direct experience of the criminal-justice or care system, supervised and safeguarded — the credibility layer commissioners can't fake.
WEMWBS-aligned wellbeing, employment, reoffending and taxpayer-savings dashboards. Evidence is generated by delivery, not by consultants.
DBS, MoU, prison-compliance workflows, data-sharing templates and audit trails — ready to drop into your procurement pack.
Universal Credit calculators, HMRC deadlines, business-plan drafter, grant-finder — turning service users into taxpayers, not repeat clients.
MEM doesn't end at release. The same person who walked out of the gate becomes a qualified lived-experience coach, partners with MEM, and delivers our prevention programme on their own estate — closing the loop before the next cohort ever reaches custody.
The platform carries them A to Z: curriculums to learn, tools to operate, and a Lived-Experience Hub to belong to. First of its kind in the UK.
Coaching pathway, prevention modules, self-employment, safeguarding — all CPD-mapped, all delivered in-app.
DBS, contracts, invoicing, scheduling, supervision logs, incident reporting — the back-office of a national service.
A first-of-its-kind network where lived-experience coaches share practice, get supervised and grow their reach.
Someone walks out of the gate with a release plan, a coach, and a live profile — not a leaflet.
They complete MEM's coaching pathway — fitness, mentoring, safeguarding, self-employment — and qualify as a paid coach.
They enter the Lived-Experience Hub — a peer network of coaches sharing practice, supervision and contracts. They stop being a 'case' and become part of a movement.
They run their own micro-enterprise on the platform: contracts, invoicing, DBS, supervision and CPD all handled.
They deliver MEM's prevention programme on their estate — reaching the next cohort before custody ever happens.
Book a 30-minute walkthrough of the platform, the evidence and the commissioning model.
