Welcome
Safe Ground educates prisoners and young people at risk in the community. We use drama to help these groups resist the forces of social exclusion and institutionalisation.
You can’t hope to motivate students unless you take care to see the world from their perspective. Any good teacher will agree, and the principle is as true of prisoners as of children.
Our two courses Family Man and Fathers Inside have now reached 25% of the male prison population. We know they work because it was the prisoners who designed them.
We believe that imaginative, participative education is a fundamental right for every student, not a privilege for prisoners ‘with the furthest to travel’*.
* The Government’s Green Paper, ‘Reducing Re-Offending Through Skills and Employment’ (December 2005).