The Inside Out Trust is active in more than 70 prisons. Restorative projects involve prisoners in work which helps them to develop new skills and - most importantly - to improve the lives of other people. These include large scale park regeneration schemes, Braille transcription for blind children and adults, art for hospices, and wheelchairs for disabled people in Africa. Prisoners volunteer for this work, and it is important that they do so. Helping other people must be a deliberate act! Volunteers from outside support the prisoner project teams in a variety of ways: encouraging, training, praising and awarding certificates. The Trust believes strongly that each individual needs self-respect and a positive sense of having a place in the world to thrive, and that this must include the most vulnerable people in our society, particularly those in prison.
The Inside Out Trust is active in more than 70 prisons. Restorative projects involve prisoners in work which helps them to develop new skills and - most importantly - to improve the lives of other people. These include large scale park regeneration schemes, Braille transcription for blind children and adults, art for hospices, and wheelchairs for disabled people in Africa. Prisoners volunteer for this work, and it is important that they do so. Helping other people must be a deliberate act! Volunteers from outside support the prisoner project teams in a variety of ways: encouraging, training, praising and awarding certificates. The Trust believes strongly that each individual needs self-respect and a positive sense of having a place in the world to thrive, and that this must include the most vulnerable people in our society, particularly those in prison.