Empowering Change for those in the Criminal Justice System
At Rubicon Gate CIC, we aim to provide invaluable support to anybody currently navigating the complexities of the Criminal Justice System, both while they are in Prison and in the crucial period after their release. We also offer comprehensive assistance and resources specifically tailored for the families of those who are incarcerated, ensuring they receive the help they need during these challenging times.
We want to actively bridge any gaps in Communication and information, fostering a more connected and informed community. Our goal is to ensure that everyone has access to the necessary tools and support networks that promote healing and reintegration.
6%
Get
Recalled
13%
Become
Homeless
30%
Long Term
Unemployed
After leaving Prison, dont become a statistic
After Release
In July 2025, MOJ statistics confirmed that over 1000 people are released from prison into homelessness each month.
Which is a 40% rise from last year.
In London, over 1300 per year become homeless, facing immediate barriers to reintegration — no address, reduced access to employment, banking, Driving Licence or GP registration. 62% who are homeless after prison, go on to reoffend.
Reoffending costs £18 billion per year.
What we aim to do
Rubicon Gate doesn’t build houses.
We don’t promise accommodation.
We can’t solve homelessness
But we aim to help people on Licence become visible again.
We offer a virtual address for you to use just like a real home address. Providing you some continuity for all your paperwork.
That virtual address is a bridge between being physically homeless and the need to exist in a digital world that requires a fixed location for everything.
Empowering Change Through Our Services
RUBICON GATE provides a virtual address and mail handling service for anyone who has been referred to us by The Prison or Probation Service.
Enabling the user to
Register for essential services: DWP, Universal Credit, Council Housing Lists
Establish a fixed, stable contact address: Open a bank account, obtain ID, update their driving licence
Receive private and secure mail: GP letters, hospital appointments, legal correspondence
Make forward progress: Apply for jobs or education, send applications and enquiries
…And handle the everyday tasks many take for granted:
Register a TFL Oyster Card for replacements if lost
Register a SIM card to keep their number if a phone is lost or stolen
Sign up for Supermarket Loyalty Cards to save on essential shopping
Receive personal and emotionally valuable communication from family or loved ones
A single address—no matter the circumstance
Whether someone is staying in hostels, shelters, temporary flats, friends’ homes, cars, or even sleeping rough, and regardless of which London Probation Office they report to,
We provide one stable postal address for the entire duration of their licence.
Empowering Lives Beyond Bars
Where Stability Starts at the Gate
Rubicon Gate is a lived-experience-led service supporting people facing the complicated paperwork when going through the justice system. We also aim to support families with keeping in touch with those on the inside
Our work is grounded in understanding, not judgement — because we’ve lived it ourselves.
Everybody walks a different path along their rehabilitation journey and we are dedicated to offer support to everybody currently on Probation or still under Licence conditions.
Rubicon Gate CIC is managed by people who have also walked a path and had a ‘Lived Experience’
We are 100% committed to ensure that every person is treated equally. Regardless of their history, background, or protected characteristics.
Our Story
Founded by Experience
Driven by Change
Rubicon Gate was created by someone who walked the same path. Despite constant attempts during the final 6 months of their sentence, they left prison with nowhere to go and no address to use. Abandonded on Romford Road in Stratford at 3pm on a Friday, surrounded by bags.
The chaos of release without support, housing, or identity inspired a mission: to make sure no one else leaves prison into silence or invisibility. Luckily Friday Releases no longer happen. But Homelessness still doesnt care what day you walk out of the gate.
We are independent and not-for-profit. Created and built by ex-offenders to help others put in the same position — regardless of race, gender, religion, or offending history.
We have no shareholders, and are run by volunteers.
Our Name
RUBICON
Historically this means the point of no return – crossing it meant there was no going back.
GATE
Self explanatory !!
Once you’re through the prison gate and starting your probation journey – never go back.
Rubicon Gate hopes for one thing:
We believe that the gate should be the start of a new path, not a revolving door.
Rubicon Gate CIC
is a 'Not for Profit' Organisation.
Everybody walks a different path along their rehabilitation journey and we are dedicated to offer support to everybody currently on Probation or still under Licence conditions.
Rubicon Gate CIC is managed by people who have also walked a path and had a ‘Lived Experience’.
We are 100% committed to ensure that every person is treated equally. Regardless of their history, background, or protected characteristics.
