Community Projects

What with the latest rhetoric about the ‘rehabilitation revolution’, it appears that Government, the Prison and Probation sectors and the media are as interested as ever in new and innovative methods of rehabilitation. Naturally then, Safeground, who have spent nearly 15 years pioneering innovative arts based interventions both within Prisons and the Community, have much [...] Read more »

Friends, Supporters, Graduates, Colleagues and members of the public, We are beginning the new year by being fabulous. We are really pleased to have made it through to the finals of the Glamour/Avon funding competition for pilot work with women!!! We are up against five other charities and the prize is £10,000! This funding will [...] Read more »

By David Binder As the ‘rehabilitation revolution’ gathers pace, still heralded at the heart of the Government’s Criminal Justice strategy despite ministerial changes , one of the more eye-catching proposed policies mooted in recent days has been the plan to link every prisoner serving less than 12 months with a volunteer mentor on release. Grayling [...] Read more »

Nana Ocran writes about her third and final day of teaching at HMP Wandsworth as part of the Transitions course     Reaching the final  So here we are, our third and final day. A re-cap of scenes, some tweaks and directorial debates about dialogue, visions, music and potential casting. Bursts of ideas came from our final [...] Read more »

Nana Ocran writes about her second day of teaching at HMP Wandsworth as part of the Transitions course     Finding a script Three stories, one script. Our mission, to bring together all elements of the group’s creative writing skills – character building, plot, image and seamless action – and place them within one central piece. Dragon’s [...] Read more »

Nana Ocran writes about her first day of teaching at HMP Wandsworth as part of the Transitions course.   The first day of creation Goodfellas, Scarface, Rain Man, Saturday Night Fever, No Country For Old Men….These are some of the cinematic shout-outs that came from the Transitions group, who are part of Safe Ground’s latest [...] Read more »

I continued working on Family Child today.  In the morning I did a little more editing of my lesson plan and added in a tricky moral dilemma to demonstrate different ways to make decisions.  I also wrote up a two page long revised sales pitch for the programme.  It includes details of what and how [...] Read more »

My second day at Safe Ground began slightly late as I wasn’t able to get my bike on the first train because it was so busy!  When I got here it was straight to work starting with a meeting about the Family Child programme.  It was trialled in schools during the development of the custody [...] Read more »

Hi, I’m Clementine and I’m at Safe Ground until Friday on a four day work placement.  I’m 16 so I’ve recently finished GCSEs.  I first found out about Safe Ground when I was googling charities that work with prisoners, thinking that I’d love to spend a week in the summer holidays helping them out.  I [...] Read more »

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 »