Sewing and Design Instructor
Actively Interviewing
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A unique opportunity to teach prison inmates sewing and designing skills while encouraging their own creativity.
Help engender greater self-belief and enhance potential employability upon release.
We will be using surplus fabric from the textile trade which would otherwise go into landfill.
This is not seen as a commercial enterprise so any profit made from selling marketable products would be invested in prisoner welfare.
We are recruiting a team of volunteers to teach cutting and machine-sewing skills in Pentonville prison, with inmates vetted for this project and with strictly applied safeguarding in place. MA students from Saint Martins Arts University, under the auspices of Professor Lorraine Gamman’s ‘Design Against Crime’ project will also be contributing time and creative input.
Ideally we foresee volunteers and inmates exchanging and developing ideas together in a supportive and creative space.
Volunteers will be asked to commit for at least six months to a minimum of 3-4 hours a week and would in a typical session together with at least one other volunteer be working with up to five learners. A one-session training on working in a prison will be provided.
Non Charity Employer The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
