Become a Fine Cell Work Champion

Want to help Fine Cell Work to keep providing paid, creative and productive work to even more prisoners around the country, helping them to acquire skills, confidence and pride and to look forward to a...

Mental Health and Stitching

For those of you who read my blog post last year you will be aware that stitching was my life line when I was diagnosed with depression. This is still true, although I am not...

Roy's story

To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, we wanted to share with you a recent letter sent to us by one of our stitchers, Roy, who explains how Fine Cell Work has helped him cope...

Open the Gate - our post-prison programme

Fine Cell Work's Open the Gate Programme, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, supports prisoners with reintegration into society upon their release from prison.   The programme offers a range of support to prison leavers, who we...

How stitching has changed Mr S.

“I’ve been a member of Fine Cell Work for just over 8 years now and it has been the best experience ever, I never knew how to stitch before and now I can’t go a...

20 Years of Fine Cell Work

"There were a fair number of raised eyebrows back in 1997 when I described my new job selling prisoners’ embroidery, in Lady Anne Tree’s bold words, 'to top shops'. A sweet and rather lunatic idea,...