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Previous Bromley Trust
grants were made to:
Fine Cell Work
www.finecellwork.co.uk
Trains and pays prisoners to undertake professional
embroidery. Helping the prisoner to develop transferable
skills and save money while doing time.
The Bromley Trust grant - £5,000
Howard League-Barbed Graphic Design Studio
www.barbed.org.uk
‘Real
Work’ project at HMP Cordingly. Prisoners
apply and are interviewed for their jobs, receive ‘normal’ employment
rights, minimum wage, holiday, pension and undertake
normal responsibilities, such as pay tax, national
insurance, board and lodgings, save for release and
voluntarily donate towards Victims Support and aim
to become self funding within three years.
The Bromley trust grant - £15,000
London Shakespeare Workout
www.londonshakespeare.org.uk
Brings theatre, especially Shakespeare into prisons
and make it a central part of prisoners rehabilitation.
Currently runs Shakespeare workouts in 72 prisons.
The Bromley Trust grant - £5,000
Prisoners Education Trust
www.prisonerseducation.org.uk
Helps to reduce re-offending by funding distance learning
and other courses during custodial sentences and thus
improving the offenders opportunities of finding employment
after release.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000
Prisons Video Trust
Aims to improve communications
and assist the rehabilitation of offenders throughout
the UK by the production of honest and thought-provoking
educational videos.
The Bromley Trust grant - £10,000
Sheriffs' and Recorder's Fund
http://www.srfund.org.uk/
Since its creation two hundred years ago the Sheriffs' And Recorder's Fund has focused on helping ex-prisoners get a new start in life and on relieving hardship in the families of serving offenders. It now helps to reduce re-offending by making grants for training, tools of trade, clothing and household equipment. It also gives to families of serving prisoners, primarily to allow their children to enjoy holidays and other recreation.
The Bromley Trust grant - £4,500
Story Book Dads
www.storybookdads.co.uk
helps to maintain family ties between
prisoners and their families during the period of incarceration
through the production of Story CD. The prisoners
are recorded reading a story for their children. This
is then edited by fellow prisoners working in the editing
suite and sent to their family on the outside.
The Bromley Trust grant - £15,000
Suffolk Punch Trust
The Suffolk Punch Trust runs a stud farm at for the endangered Suffolk Punch providing work and training for inmates from HMP Hollesley Bay Suffolk.
The Bromley Trust grant £10,000 restricted to work with offenders
The Clink
theclinkonline.com
In 2009 The Clink will open its doors at HMP HIgh Down, serving gourmet and wholesome food to prison staff, visitors and the public, the end result of a visionary and unique educational programme. Rather than offering prisoners an opportunity to raise their sights unrealistically, The Clink offers every inductee the chance to gain outstanding catering qualifications, valuable experience within an exciting and accountable business and guidance to a full time job upon release. The Bromley Trust is supporting the work as part of our focus on prisoners working with catering.
The Bromley Trust grant - £30,000 restricted
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