News

  1. randomcake 1 1024x669 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    Random Cake…

    Hello, “Man, I love cake”, is often the shout at around 10.30am, just before tea break. Cake, for high days, celebrations, anniversaries, you name it, a cake is here. Cream, fruit, sponge, chocolate, iced, parsnip, carrot…

  2. website pic circles 1024x669 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    Circles…

    Hello, “Chris, do you think stuff just goes around, is life just a circle of continuous events?” That’s an interesting lunchtime question (I like these, gets everyone chatting) and this from a man who often poses…

  3. Believe sign for website e1706652128647 1024x440 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    You just have to be there…

    Hello, Building trusting relationships can, on the one hand, be deeply satisfying, on the other, it can be like sand slipping through your fingers. You just have to be there, through the ups and downs, just…

  4. An Oasis of Hope 1024x669 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    Sometimes it just goes wrong…

    Hello, Sometimes it just goes wrong. Even though everything is going right. Josh came here in the Autumn last year. It had taken months to get him to engage. He couldn’t deal with authority. Traumatised from…

  5. IMG 2770 e1700840856999 1024x571 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    Acceptance – The inside story of LandWorks

    July 2023 – Acceptance, a new book by LandWorks published to mark the charity’s 10th anniversary, is shining a much-needed light on the difficult and complex lives of offenders, the challenges of rehabilitation, and their potential…

  6. acceptance blopg photo 2 1024x669 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    Acceptance…

    Hello, I’ve been wondering for a while how to start this email. Best keep it simple… I guess over the last ten years (I will stop going on about it after this email) for me there…

  7. LandWorks supporters cropped 1024x613 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    Award-winning Devon-based prisoner resettlement charity cele...

    17 July 2023 – LandWorks, the pioneering prisoner resettlement scheme at Dartington, welcomed 275 supporters, volunteers, and partners to its annual Supporters Day on 14th July 2023 to celebrate 10 remarkable years of achievement. Despite the…

  8. 10th plaque pottery website 1024x669 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    Day 3650…

    Hello, Day 3,637 Jimmy, one of the first cohort (then a day release prisoner), just sent the following text… “I know that I’m hard work but something that you said and done that hit home with…

  9. Australian Oak Leaf Lettuce 1024x669 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    G’day…

    Hello, “Mate (Aussie accent), I’ve read your little blog thing for years and mate, all you do is moan. Why don’t you ever say how you would fix it?” Right-oh, good – always encouraging to get…

  10. wall 1024x669 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    Another brick on the wall…

    Hello, “Do you feel that, Chris? You know, the destruction of hope, the pervading sense that we just have to accept all this.” Oh dear, it’s Monday morning, and I had been quite hopeful of just…

  11. tile 1024x669 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    Can it go on Grandad?

    Hello, “Alright, Chris, you a Grandad then”. “Er, no”. “Oh, sorry mate, they said you turned 60, my Grandad’s much the same age.” I start to do the maths, but give up…  accepting probably everything is…

  12. Orange trousers website 1024x576 - Prisoner Training & Placements
    Orange Suits

    Hello, “When do you get the orange suits, Chris, the offender jump suits the Government want us to wear? I’m not wearing one of those.” I answer quite simply… “We’re not going to have them here.”…