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The Programmes Team is looking for a dynamic individual required to develop our new programme Man Up in a wide range of male prison delivery sites and community based organisations.  Circa £26,500 per annum, pro rata 4 days per week, for eight months with the possibility of extension Safe Ground promotes relationship skills as tools [...] Read more »

David Binder decribes his time working as a research and policy volunteer at Safe Ground. David is currently employed as a Family Fiscal Policy Consultant for CARE. Given the somewhat tricky jobs market many graduates are finding themselves in at the moment, and with the current climate set to continue for some time, many have [...] Read more »

Safe Ground On The Run It was chilly and it was dry. Perfect conditions for a 10k run. The occasion was warm and lively – an atmosphere perfected by Safe Ground for public events. As morning ascended, not quite shaking off the night and settling as a billowing grey sheet of cloud, Safe Ground staff, Race [...] Read more »

Public transport in London can be like a prairie in the Wild West, intervals so empty, arid and desert-like that only the absence of tumbleweed asserts urbanity. The slightly embittered wind whispered a chilly discontent in my ears as I waited at a disconsolate bus stop for the 319 to take me to Clapham Junction. [...] Read more »

Here is the playlist of tunes listened to by me, inspired or submitted by readers of my blog, for week seven of training for Safe Ground On The Run.We need your support on the day, so tell everybody in your network and we’ll see at the start line at 9.30am. Here is Week Seven in [...] Read more »

Internally I have always debunked the liberal fallacy of ‘beauty in the inside’. In public and often times in private I have asserted, sometimes vigorously, the belief that it is those unseen constituent parts that make us. The intangible, the invisible and the deep are pre-eminent. If the Horsemeatgate ‘scandal’ speaks to anything authentic at [...] Read more »

Training Tip: 40mins Easy At 8.15am I was aroused, nipples saluting a glorious morning. However, it was irritation not eroticism, the cause of this discomfort and dull ache. It seems if one runs long enough that this sort of chaffing, caused by rubbing against one’s shirt, is not uncommon. My pleasure-plain threshold would appear to [...] Read more »

Training Tip: 10min Easy, 5min Brisk, 25min Easy He hurtled toward me and time collapsed. Everything was as honey as I multiplied. Flight was the first impulse, but momentum was Juggernaut. Sloe echoes of ‘Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down’ stirred defiance and the instinct to fight was borne. Shoulders squared and hands rounded [...] Read more »

Training Tip: 5min Easy, 15min Brisk, 20min Easy Roswell conspiracy declaims is a place of uneasy questions and uncomfortable answers. Truth is often an unidentifiable fleeting objective, as ordinarily we make it elusory or allow it to elude us. Even then it is diffuse, ephemeral and so at variance as to be extra-terrestrial. It is [...] Read more »

Here is the playlist of tunes listened to by me, inspired or submitted by readers of my blog, for week five of training for Safe Ground On The Run.We need volunteers to help us out on the day. Tell your networks, friends, families and work colleagues. Here is Week Five in sound: Music to Train [...] Read more »