Fine Cell Work
www.finecellwork.co.ukFine Cell Work is a charity and social enterprise committed to the rehabilitation of prisoners through providing them with purposeful activity. We do this by teaching them soft work skills, by training and paying them to do exquisite needlework to create beautiful products for sale. Our aim is to support prisoners to finish their sentences with work skills, money earned and saved, and the self-belief to stop offending and go on to live meaningful, independent crime-free lives. We enable prisoners and ex-prisoners to work within a successful social enterprise by training them to make high quality, commercial needlework and textile products which are sold to interior designers, private customers, museums and heritage organisations. The charity's model is sustainable; a quarter of its income comes from sales of prisoners' work. By providing purposeful activity to prepare prisoners to successfully reintegrate into the community post-release, we are working to improve prisoner well-being, key to reducing recidivism. Our emphasis on earning and saving for release is unusual in blending practical, material empowerment for prisoners with a process of psychological support and rebuilding. Stitchers earn approximately a third of income from sales and are encouraged to save for release. This allows our stitchers to save a real nest egg to provide financial security post release. With a small staff team, the charity has a wide reach because of the support of a national network of up to 200 volunteers providing frontline training and mentoring as well as support of sales, design, production and fundraising. Working with over 8,000 prisoners in 55 prisons over this time has given us extensive experience of prisons in the UK. We have created a strong, resilient infrastructure whilst retaining the flexibility to adapt our programmes to meet the ongoing challenges of working within the prison estate.
Read moreFine Cell Work is a charity and social enterprise committed to the rehabilitation of prisoners through providing them with purposeful activity. We do this by teaching them soft work skills, by training and paying them to do exquisite needlework to create beautiful products for sale. Our aim is to support prisoners to finish their sentences with work skills, money earned and saved, and the self-belief to stop offending and go on to live meaningful, independent crime-free lives. We enable prisoners and ex-prisoners to work within a successful social enterprise by training them to make high quality, commercial needlework and textile products which are sold to interior designers, private customers, museums and heritage organisations. The charity's model is sustainable; a quarter of its income comes from sales of prisoners' work. By providing purposeful activity to prepare prisoners to successfully reintegrate into the community post-release, we are working to improve prisoner well-being, key to reducing recidivism. Our emphasis on earning and saving for release is unusual in blending practical, material empowerment for prisoners with a process of psychological support and rebuilding. Stitchers earn approximately a third of income from sales and are encouraged to save for release. This allows our stitchers to save a real nest egg to provide financial security post release. With a small staff team, the charity has a wide reach because of the support of a national network of up to 200 volunteers providing frontline training and mentoring as well as support of sales, design, production and fundraising. Working with over 8,000 prisoners in 55 prisons over this time has given us extensive experience of prisons in the UK. We have created a strong, resilient infrastructure whilst retaining the flexibility to adapt our programmes to meet the ongoing challenges of working within the prison estate.
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Founded
1997
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