FM/FI Network News

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 »

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 »

Here at Safe Ground we may have a writer in residence, sharing his exploits on the road to On The Run, however we are so participatory to the bone so here is our friend Ben Miles’ musings on running: “Shift it fatso” ,“Run piglet run” & “Moobs in Motion” Just a small selection of the [...] Read more »

Fathers Inside was featured as a model of good practice in the Family Strategic Partnership’s new report on supporting young fathers. Safe Ground was delighted to work on the project with a range of organisations doing great work with young dads in the community. Read more »

On the 14th January Safe Ground lost someone who proved to be a bedrock of  the change that we as an organisation are committed to. Mrs Williams who as a member of the Battersea community volunteered to appear as ‘Gloria’ in our film ‘Blinder’, which has not only impacted positively on the lives of prisoners, [...] Read more »

Charlie Weinberg, Executive Director, and Orla Hasson, Family Man Coordinator, attended HMP Parc’s What Next Day as part of Parc’s 8th Family Man. The Family Man team this time around were Hayley Morris, Samantha Bolger, Keith Wiltshire and Nigel Thomas. The 18 students all had supporters for the event, including partners, mothers, sisters and volunteers, [...] Read more »

In January 2012, Hampshire Probation service commissioned the first version of Family Man in the Community (FM in C). The aim of the programme was to help men on license that have been newly released settle back into the community. The Family Man in the Community pilot was formulated to find out whether the Family [...] Read more »

The Programmes Team is looking for a dynamic individual to manage the nationally acclaimed HM Prison Service/ Safe Ground Fathers Inside programme in a wide range of male prison delivery sites in the UK. Circa £26,500 per annum, providing maternity cover full time, from 1st April to 30th September 2013 with the possibility of extension [...] Read more »

Develop our Twitter, Facebook and all round presence Volunteer Marketing and Communications Assistant Make us famous! We want to increase our followerships on Twitter and Facebook. We want someone who will devise strategies in conjunction with the Commercial Manager and Executive Director to diversify our audience, increase interactivity, increase numbers and improve online and text [...] 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 »