Community / Space2face expands into Orkney as ‘seven year dream’ becomes reality
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LOCAL restorative justice charity Space2face has expanded its services to Orkney.
The charity’s Clair Aldington and Amy Colvin were in Kirkwall last week to train three members of staff who will be working as restorative justice facilitators.
Established in 2016, Space2face is an independent charity that uses restorative practices and the arts to support dialogue between those harmed by crime and those responsible for causing that harm.
The award-winning charity aims to help anyone affected by a particular incident to play a part in repairing the harm and finding a positive way forward.
Space2face founder and director Aldington said the three Orcadian practitioners have been recruited over the past few months with the aim to establish an Orkney hub in Kirkwall.
Gael Cochrane, a Space2face team member from Edinburgh, said: “We are thrilled to now have three new staff members in Orkney of such high calibre.
“We first started having conversations with the Orkney Community Justice Partnership seven years ago about the possibility of launching a restorative justice service there.”
Aldington added: “For me this is the fulfilment of a seven-year dream to be able to offer the Orkney community the same service as we have here in Shetland.”
Whilst Scotland remains the only nation state in the UK where restorative justice is not legislated for, the future of the charity is always uncertain, Aldington added.
“However, this is an exciting development for the Northern Isles and for restorative justice in Scotland,” she said. “Space2face remains the only such service in the Highlands and Islands.”
This move has been supported with funding from Community Justice Scotland – the umbrella organisation for restorative justice in Scotland.
The charity launched its own mini film festival last year as a way to raise funds.
Charity in ‘precarious’ position launches restorative justice film festival
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