Safe Ground wins The Longford Prize 2017!

Our interactive Annual Report 2016-17, celebrating 21 years of impact, is now 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.

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

We recently spoke to one of our alumni, Jason, about his experience of the arts, and how he hopes to take his passion forwards in the future.

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.

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

“Fathers Inside has the biggest and genuine impact on prisoners. It gets them to reflect and start to have some insight on what it means to be a dad.” - Andrew Bailey, Head of Learning and Skills, HMP Whitemoor.

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

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