Downloads & materials

This page contains links to the materials that we publish as part of providing practical information and advice for people with convictions, as well as how you can make use of our materials.

• Downloadable materials
• Our publishing policy
• Getting copies of our materials
• Using our materials
• Linking to Unlock

Downloadable materials

• The materials below are available to download as PDFs. You may need to download Adobe Reader (free from www.adobe.com/reader) to access these files.
• If you’d like to get copies of our materials, see below.

Marketing – About Unlock

The below materials explain the support that Unlock provides to people with convictions and others.

Information publications

The information publications below are available as standalone PDF’s. Our online information on these subjects are regularly updated, so they may have been updated since it was last published as a PDF. You can download individual web-pages by clicking the ‘PDF’ button at the bottom of each page within our information section.

Our publishing policy

Unlock is an open access publisher. Most of our archive and all new marketing and publications are available in electronic form to download free from this page or from the publications page of our main website.

Our policy on others getting copies of our materials and using them are set out on this page and in our terms when using our materials.

Getting copies of our materials

By ‘materials’, we mean both the marketing and information publications above as well as any other information, publication or content that sits on this site or our other websites.

Getting electronic copies

All our publiclly-available materials are available to download electronically free of charge. You are welcome to download single copies for your own personal use, and multiple copies with our prior permission. See the using of our materials section for more details. A full list of Unlock’s publications is available here.

Getting hard copies

Single hard-copies of our materials are available for free to people with convictions. Please contact us directly.

Single hard-copies of our materials can be provided free of charge to organisations and practitioners on receipt of an appropriate stamped addressed envelope. Postage will vary depending on the size and weight of the materials you request. A large letter stamp with an A4 envelope is usually the safest option, but please mark sure you include adequate postage for what you’re requesting. Send it to Debbie Sadler, Advice Manager, Unlock, MCSC, 39-48 Marsham Street, Maidstone, ME14 1HH. Please include the following details:

1. your name
2. the details of the organisation you work for
3. what materials or resources you’d like
4. a brief outline of why you’d like them
5. a contact number and email address

Multiple hard-copies

Alternatively, we are happy to provide high-resolution print-ready PDF’s of our materials so that you can arrange multiple copies to be professionally printed at your end. To do this, get in touch and let us know:

• your name
• the details of the organisation you work for
• what materials or resources you’d like to print multiple copes of
• a brief outline of why you’d like to use them in this way
• a contact number and email address

Using our materials

By ‘materials’, we mean both the marketing and information publications above as well as any other information, publication or content that sits on this site or our other websites.