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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 final playlist of tunes listened to by me, inspired or submitted by readers of my blog, for week eight of training for Safe Ground On The Run. The day went amazingly well and my own run wasn’t too shabby either. Here is Week Eight in sound: Music to Run By Music to [...] Read more »

As we count down the hours to Safe Ground on the Run, none other than Paula Radcliffe has stopped by to provide some last-minute tips exclusively for Safe Ground (and maybe Nike and the Guardian too). 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 »

Charlie’s article on New Philanthropy Capital’s website detailing how relationships are at the heart of change and the heart of Safe Ground’s work. Read more »