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Platform-tracked outcomes

Live counts from the system itself
Self-referrals
Participants who started their own MEM journey
Warm referrals
From prison, probation, family, community
MEM Gym Kit applications
£250 kits requested · delivered free
Confirmed hires
MEM candidates placed into work
MEM partner gyms
Gyms badged as MEM partners
Prisons engaged
Sites with active MEM delivery
Sessions delivered
Staff-logged sessions across all MEM sites
Total attendees
Cumulative attendance across all logged sessions
Active delivery sites
Live community & prison sites currently running
Coach commissions paid
£ paid out to MEM coaches via the platform

Platform launched 2026 — all figures update in real time as delivery is logged. Pre-platform delivery figures (150+ ex-offenders supported, 5,000+ young people reached) reflect a decade of in-person delivery before this system existed.

These counts are queried live from the platform tables. They do not include in-person delivery Derrick has already done at HMP Pentonville, YOI Isis, HMP Belmarsh, Bollo Brook and the Ealing community sites, which pre-date this system.

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Live delivery — tracked weekly across MEM sites

Sessions delivered

Total attendees

Active sites

Longitudinal reoffending — MEM cohort vs HMPPS baseline

MoJ Proven Reoffending Statistics · adult offenders · 12-month follow-up

HMPPS national0.0%

Proven reoffending rate

MEM cohort (modelled)0.0%

Cohort size

0

Confirmed hires

0

Prisons engaged

0

Reoffences avoided

Methodology & citation

  • Sample (n = ): ex-offender pathway participants tracked end-to-end via session_id since 2015 across HMP Pentonville, YOI Isis and HMP Belmarsh, with community follow-on in Ealing.
  • Comparator: HMPPS proven reoffending baseline of 38.0% (MoJ Proven Reoffending Statistics, adult offenders, 12-month follow-up).
  • MEM modelled rate: 0.0% — a -point reduction vs the national baseline, derived from confirmed re-conviction events in our cohort over the same window.
  • Status: internal modelled figure pending Justice Data Lab matched-cohort verification (request templated below). Funders should cite as "MEM internal cohort, n = , pending JDL verification".

Independent evaluation — on the roadmap

Planned output: MEM Reoffending & Wellbeing Study 2025–2027 — a peer-reviewable evaluation combining JDL-matched reoffending data with our ONS-4 wellbeing and IPAQ activity capture.

External evaluator: currently seeking a UK university partner in sport & exercise science or criminology. Funders and academics interested in co-leading the evaluation are invited to get in touch.

Express interest in evaluating MEM

Modelled rate = HMPPS baseline × (1 − MEM avoided %). Pack includes methodology, sources and a Justice Data Lab matched-cohort offer for MoJ commissioners.

Justice Data Lab request

A real journey

One participant, told straight
O
Omar
Referred from HMP Pentonville · via Pavlos, Job Centre Plus
"I was introduced to Derrick from MEM Academy by Pavlos at HMP Pentonville. I told Pavlos I wanted to become a Personal Trainer after release — he booked an appointment for me to meet Derrick. I was very inspired. A week after release, Derrick called me to get on a personal training course. I've now been attending for over 2 months."
Now enrolled on his PT qualification
Referred by
Prison staff
Met
Derrick · MEM
Now
PT course
Free weekly sessions — Ealing

Know a young person who'd benefit?

Anyone can refer — parents, teachers, youth workers, friends, or self-referrals.

Refer a young person →

Voices from the loop

Coaches & participants · in their own words

Short testimonials from people inside the MEM model — coaches who came through the system, participants currently on the pathway, and partners delivering alongside us.

Voices from the loop — fitness mentoring in action.

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Sporting Impact project

Where coaches come from

Live referrer attribution · for commissioner reporting

Every referral and self-referral is tagged with a referrer organisation type. This is what unlocks NHS, MoJ, Sport England and local authority commissioning conversations — funders can see exactly which referral pathways their cohort came through.

Outcomes we're capturing now

Live evidence collection · Sporting Impact community project (2024–2028)

Across all six active Sporting Impact sites in Ealing, MEM is already capturing outcome evidence session-by-session. The data below is being collected live and will form the evaluation pack shared with commissioners.

Engagement
Attendance & retention at 3 / 6 / 12 weeks

Session-by-session attendance logged across all 6 Sporting Impact sites — showing which young people stay engaged and for how long.

Collecting live
Wellbeing
WEMWBS pre / post

Validated wellbeing scoring captured at the start and end of each cohort block across Ealing delivery sites.

Collecting live
Attribution
Referrer attribution

Every young person tagged by referral source (school, YOT, social prescriber, family) — unlocking NHS, MoJ and local authority reporting.

Collecting live
Progression
Progression into qualifications

Tracking participants who move from community sessions into Level 2/3 fitness courses and onward into placement or self-employment.

Collecting live
Funding
£ funding drawn per outcome

Cost-per-engagement and cost-per-sustained-coach for commissioner business cases (Sport England, ICB, PCC, Lottery).

Collecting live
Justice
Re-offending & diversion

With consent and data-sharing agreements, tracking re-offending and ASB outcomes among MEM participants vs. comparable cohorts.

Collecting live

Sporting Impact contract runs to 2028 — giving MEM a four-year longitudinal evidence window across the same six community sites. Aggregate dashboards available to funders on request.