Community Projects Blog
Opportunity: Alumni Network Coordinator Volunteer
January 6th, 2012
The Programmes Team is looking for a volunteer to co-ordinate the activities of a small Steering Group of supporters, providing the group with help, guidance and support as necessary. The Steering Group will take the lead on establishing and managing an Alumni Network, comprising graduates (and their families) of our FM and FI programmes. We [...] Read more »
Book now: Fathers Inside Training, 6-8 March 2012
November 29th, 2011
Fathers Inside training, 6-8 March 2012, HMPS Newbold Revel Training Centre The Fathers Inside programme is a groundbreaking parenting course which aims to help prisoners contribute to society by teaching them how to support their children’s education and upbringing whilst in custody. Fathers Inside is currently delivered in 10 establishments across England and Wales. This [...] Read more »
Did you hear about Family Man on Woman’s Hour?
April 26th, 2011
Family Man featured on Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour today – here is a link to the show. If you would like to support our work with prisoners and their families, you can donate here. All donations help Safe Ground to design, deliver and manage a range of interventions inside and outside prison in order to [...] Read more »
Family Man feature on Woman’s Hour
April 21st, 2011
A Family Man graduate will be featured on Woman’s Hour on Tuesday 26th April. Tune in at 10am to hear Scott talk about his experiences of the programme, and to hear from his mum Patricia about what it’s like to have a son inside. For more information see the Radio 4 website – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010m7kv Read more »
Marc’s Marathon update!
April 21st, 2011
A MASSIVE thank you to Marc Thurgood who ran the London Marathon for Safe Ground. Marc ran in an incredible 3 hours and 32 minutes raising over £1200 to support our work in prisons and the community. We are still collecting donations, so if you’re as impressed as we are visit http://www.justgiving.com/Marc-Thurgood Read more »
Older Adults Set The Percussion Bar High
February 11th, 2011
The Common Ground team had a great session with a group of older adults at the Katherine Low Settlement in Battersea yesterday, where particpants took part in a fascinating discussion about community, as well as pulling off a pretty impressive percussion performance under Tommy’s expert guidance. Can’t wait to feed back all of their input to the [...] Read more »
Beginning to Find Common Ground…
February 7th, 2011
A busy start to the New Year for us Common Ground team members, who spent the last week of January delivering full-time workshops to a group of 20 men at HMP The Mount. The group were presented with material that had been compiled for them during sessions with the Battersea Park School students, and were [...] Read more »