Organisations and institutions
Fine Cell Work
Fine Cell Work is a social enterprise set up 14 years ago to enable prisoners to practice a professional craft skill and earn and save money from it.
Fine Cell Work trains prisoners in paid, skilled, creative needlework undertaken in the long hours spent in their cells to foster hope, discipline and self esteem. This helps them to connect to society and to leave prison with the confidence and financial means to stop offending.
Category: Arts Organisation
Evaluations as member organisation (1)
Stitching a Future - an Evaluation of Fine Cell Work
An independent qualitative evaluation into the work of Fine Cell Work (FCW) in five prisons across England and Scotland, to identify the key benefits of being involved with FCW, establish why offenders participate and continue their involvement and investigate changes in soft outcomes such as behaviour, feelings about prison and ... read on →
Publications
Gerard Lemos, Create-Ability: the changing meaning of art and artistry (July 2011) Links: Lemos & Crane website
