About the designer

Cath Kidston

Cath Kidston MBE is a British entrepreneur and designer known the world over for her pattern and print design.

After leaving her eponymous company in 2016 Cath has gone on to establish a new design studio Joy of Print working with international retailers on print design and strategy and collaborating with independent companies via her studio portfolio.

She has published a number of best-selling books, her most recent being A Place Called Home with Christopher Simon Sykes published by Pavilion books in 2020.

Cath is also the founder of a new geranium inspired body care brand, C.Atherley.

DONATIONS

Support our work

By purchasing from Fine Cell Work, you are making social change. However, 75% of our rehabilitation programmes are funded through donations and grants. We know that transformation is possible - for our stitchers, for our communities, and for our society as a whole. Your support - through donations or by purchasing products - will help to break the devastating cycle of reoffending and repeated imprisonment.

£10 donation
Provides a prisoner with the materials for one tapestry cushion (100 hours of creative activity). 

£20 donation
Will enable us to continue providing paid, creative and productive work to even more prisoners around the UK, helping them to build a brighter future.

£50 donation
Sponsors a prisoner to train as a volunteer 'class coordinator', teaching and mentoring other prisoners.

£250 donation
Covers the volunteer costs of a stitching class in prison.

£500 donation
Pays for the training, materials and support for one prisoner for an entire year, helping them to rebuild a meaningful, independent,crime-free life.

By giving prisoners hope that transformation is truly possible, they can envision a meaningful life after release. But nobody tells the story of how Fine Cell Work has helped them better than the prisoners themselves:

“Stitching allows me to use a totally different part of my brain and personality. I can move away from the more difficult reflections and anxieties and feel creative and purposeful. This means I no longer feel that my life has come to a halt and that I am of no use to anyone else.”

- Tom, FCW Stitcher -

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Gill Nolan
Beautiful!

Have just received my pencil case - and it is beautiful! I sew quite a lot myself and was very interested in your sewing project. The name on the item was Brown. Obviously a very talented person. Many thanks - I shall definitely be making more purchases. Thank you.