As part of Safe Ground’s 21st Birthday celebrations, we held an Open House event at our Battersea offices to mark the charity’s inauguration day. This was a fantastic opportunity for the public to drop in and learn more about the organisation’s history. The day involved hearing first-hand accounts of the impact of Safe Ground’s programmes from Alumni members and delivery staff , watching film screenings from our archives, visits to the pop-up gallery space where Alumni art work was on display, and attending an object handling session with Stewart McLaughlin from Wandsworth Prison Museum.

Itinerary

10am – 10.30am Breakfast bites

10.30am – 10.45am  Executive Director, Charlotte Weinberg – Home in Hearts [Talk: Who is Safe Ground now?]

10.45am – 11am  Founder, Antonia Rubinstein – History of Safe Ground [Talk]

11.15am – 11.30am Alumni Member, Gus – Family Man, Transitions, Man Up + Safe Ground (inc. screening of “Transitions”) [Talk]

11.30am – 11.45am  Trustee and Head of Family Interventions, Corin Morgan-Armstrong – Parc Life [Talk]

12pm – 12.15pm Alumni Member, Michael Brown – Professional Love [Talk] TBC

12.30pm – 12.45pm Alumni Member, Jason Smith – Write Out [Poetry reading]

12.45pm – 1pm General Manager, Jatinder Kailey – Curator’s tour of exhibition

1pm – 1.30pm Lunch bites

1.30pm – 2pm Historian and Museum Curator, Stewart McLaughlin – History of HMP Wandsworth [Talk]

2.15pm – 2.30pm Artist, Matt Hopwood – Human Love Story [Talk]

2.45pm – 3pm GROUNDation explained + video [Talk & screening]

3pm – 3.15pm Katherine Low Settlement – Home [poetry readings]

3.30pm – 4.15pm Wandsworth Youth Council panel debate – Home and safety (young people’s ideas on prison, community and safety) TBC

4.15pm – 5pm Tea + Cake

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