Meet the designer: Snowden Flood

With Summer Solstice just around the corner, we thought we'd shine a light on our Stonehenge Cushion. Part of our bestselling Landmarks needlepoint collection, this iconic design has become a Fine Cell Work classic. We spoke...

Volunteers' Week 2024 - Meet Sarah Ashford

Volunteers' Week, running from 3rd to 6th June, celebrates the amazing contributions volunteers make to communities across the UK. It’s a chance to recognise, celebrate and thank the UK’s incredible volunteers for all they contribute...

Volunteers' Week 2024 - Meet Leah Jensen

Volunteers' Week, running from 3rd to 6th June, celebrates the amazing contributions volunteers make to communities across the UK. It’s a chance to recognise, celebrate and thank the UK’s incredible volunteers for all they contribute...

Lara's Story - building hope and resilience

Easter is often seen as a time of opportunity: new beginnings, rebirth, reconsideration and hope. For people living and coping in the tough world of prison, it is hard to have hope.They often have nothing and no one...

Meet the designer - Kit Kemp

We are incredibly lucky to have a longstanding working relationship with the celebrated interior designer, Kit Kemp MBE - as both a design collaborator and as a dedicated trustee of Fine Cell Work. Her creative talent...

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...