Lord Farmer's review highlights how our work "...uses proven methods to encourage key elements of desistance". In a Ministry of Justice Data Lab analysis on Fathers Inside, “only 24% of men who took the programme re-offended within a year of release”, in contrast to 40% for their counterparts whom did not participate.

“There isn’t another programme that does what the Safe Ground programmes do. The way they work with the men, and involve their partners, and children, the manner in which they create confidence, motivation, and self-efficacy is unique... Cheap at twice the price!” Head of Family Interventions – Custody & Community, HMP Parc, 2012

Fathers Inside participants are 16 percentage points less likely to re-offend!

'I would kindly ask you to appreciate/ recognise the resilience, steel and resolve of these young men standing here with me today...'

Our interactive Annual Report 2015-16 is available to read. Get to know more about Safe Ground, our programmes and policy work through the viewpoints of our programme graduates, volunteers, staff and trustees.

Following our entry to the 2015 Idox Innovation Awards, we are delighted to inform you that Safe Ground's 'GROUNDation Poetry Project' was selected as the 'Highly Commended project of Category 2: Innovation in Promoting Community Engagement.

The GROUNDation Poetry Project has been awarded a Gold Award by the Koestler Trust!

"This course just opens your eyes to what’s really important. It helps you understand how to be a better father. It helps you to see how being in prison really affects your whole family and how everyone suffers."

Jon was 17 when he found out he was going to be a dad...

"A big, big change. He came out different – oh yeah! The family comes first now. Before it was always himself..... I wonder if it’s the same man I married!"