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Hello, It’s the summer holidays. South Devon is beautiful, sunny and bustling. People are just popping in to visit LandWorks, non-stop! Often, they completely miss the shop and start wondering around the site looking lost (we…

Hello, There’s a warning of gales… I thought I was awakening to the shipping forecast (I normally do). I wasn’t, I was lost, dreaming. Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire. But it was seagulls shrieking outside that…

Hello, “Chris lad, what you don’t understand is, it’s a long, long way from here to there”, Jay 2014. I (helpfully) got a Bruce Springsteen song stuck in my head… Long Walk Home Jay was exposing my naive…

Hello, Last weekend the LandWorks team, trainees, graduates, trustees, supporters and volunteers were all out supporting a lovely event held in aid of LandWorks. It was a weekend open garden, raising funds for the charity, held…

5 June 2025 – An Open Gardens weekend at the Sandridge Park estate, held on Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June 2025, was a resounding success, raising an incredible £20,000 in support of LandWorks. Over…

Hello, The sun is out, the garden team are muttering about a drought, and I am going around urging people to wear a hat (incl me). “Get ahead, getta hat” is my latest encouragement! “Get ahead,…

21 May 2025 – LandWorks is excited to announce the establishment of a new Jewellery workshop, thanks to a generous donation of jewellery making equipment which has found its way to us via the Worshipful Goldsmiths’…

Hello, You find me busy doing something that we do a lot. The record is 5 in one day, showing people around LandWorks. The ‘follow the brolly’ LandWorks tour is the same for everyone, whether it…

Hello, We have learned a lot over 12 years. Everyone who arrives here has much in common, but also, we have discovered the importance of listening to and understanding an individual’s story. Nobody is the same….

Hello, Essentially what we do at LandWorks is support people to re-discover who they were before getting into trouble (back then), and before they got involved in the criminal justice system. So many people coming here…

28 February 2025 – Anyone who has visited the LandWorks shop on the Dartington Estate can’t fail to have noticed the beautifully glazed and coloured range of mugs and bowls for sale by the One Armed…

Hello, “Chris, surely it’s just all about employment, that’s the answer, just get these people working… simple”. Well, err I suppose in an ideal world, yes. But as Doris (LandWorks trainee 2022) said, “If you just…