A World Book Day Reading List

With World Book Day on March 7th just around the corner, and a horde of hungry readers on the Fine Cell Work team, we wanted to share a few of our favourite topical titles with...

Volunteer Opportunities - Durham, Cambridgeshire & Nottinghamshire

Fine Cell Work are looking for prison-based volunteers in Durham, Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire. Our volunteers are on the frontline of our work, and visit prisons on a fortnightly basis to teach stitchers. Volunteers should be...

The Festive Season in Prison

“I don’t see no festive, you just want to get them out the way... Christmas eve, Christmas day and Boxing day. Them three days you just want them out the way. And really to be...

Stitching and Training Tutor - Reading

FINE CELL WORK Fine Cell Work is a rehabilitation charity and social enterprise which makes beautiful, handmade products in British prisons. For over two decades, we have been changing the lives of prisoners and prison...

Sharing the festive spirit at our Apprentice Christmas Lunch

The Apprentice Christmas Lunch is a very special day in the Fine Cell Work calendar. Our staff look forward to it, as it really brings home what we are trying to achieve through our work...

Fine Cell Work Stitcher Awards 2023

As the year draws to a close, it's the perfect time to reflect on our achievements - and those of Fine Cell Work’s stitchers. In 2023 we gave out 206 Stitcher Awards and bonuses to...

Portraits in Poetry: a series of tapestries by Daisy Constance May Shields

Back in 2020, the Chelsea-based poet and artist Daisy Constance May Shields commissioned Fine Cell Work to produce a series of tapestries to recreate her typewritten poems. The finished works were recently exhibited on Kings Road,...

A Day in the life of Matt, a FCW stitcher

Stitcher Matt works as part of an in-cell stitching group.   Every day, as routinely as I do my daily ablutions, I assess my current stitching project with the discernment of an armchair virtuoso. Yes, I...

Meet the designer - Neisha Crosland

With her second design collaboration for Fine Cell Work launching this week, we wanted to shine a light on the work of the London-based designer Neisha Crosland. Having designed patterns for fabrics and wallpapers, fashion...