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An independent charity providing a supported route into employment and the community for people leaving prison or at risk of going to prison.
www.landworks.org.uk
Overall Winner - The Charity Awards 2024
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One Day is an award-winning short film about LandWorks, produced by our supporters, Graeme and Jennie Montgomery. It is a great introduction to the work we do at LandWorks and the experiences of people on placement here.
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A film by Jennie and Graeme Montgomery about the award-winning criminal justice charity, LandWorks, based in South Devon. www.landworks.org.uk
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'“Yeah, I’m not saying I want to go back inside, but I don’t really care, Chris. I’ve got f*** all in my life.”

Latest blog from Chris now available, including a link to buy our latest Recipe book - "The Big Thank You".

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#landworks #recipebook #charity
Ripe ground - LandWorks Blog
Hello, “Yeah, I’m not saying I want to go back inside, but I don’t really care, Chris. I’ve got f*** all in my life.” He pauses; he’s just finished a four-year stretch. I think we’re both...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Big congratulations to Amy – winner of our LandWorks bench prize! 🎉

Thanks to our supporters, we’ve welcomed 150 new members to the LandWorks community!

Read more on the story and how to become a supporter below.

#landworks #supporters

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And the winner of the garden bench is.... - Prisoner Training & Education - Prison Mentoring
23 October 2025 – A huge thank you to all our wonderful Supporters for helping to spread the word about LandWorks. We want more people to know that there is a better way to work with...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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'Last Wednesday, Her Royal Highness Princess Anne visited LandWorks – and yes, we were expecting her!
It was a wonderful day. Barry, who has been on placement here for a few months, told me it was the proudest day of his life...'

Latest blog available below:

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HRH and Acceptance - LandWorks Blog
Hello, Last Wednesday, Her Royal Highness Princess Anne visited LandWorks – and yes, we were expecting her! It was a wonderful day. Barry, who has been on placement here for a few months, told me it.....
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October 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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'So after coming out of prison I thought my life was gonna be amazing,[…], I would go back to normal life but without the stresses and the dramas of being on bail…that wasn’t the case.'

Read more here:

#landworks #reducingreoffending #transforminglives

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Cherry says: “one thing I struggled with, coming out of prison, is feeling like I was being judged by everyone.”
“So after coming out of prison I thought my life was gonna be amazing, […], I would go back to normal life but without the stresses and the dramas of being on bail … that wasn’t the case. […]…
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October 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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We were delighted to welcome Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to LandWorks yesterday.

It was a wonderful acknowledgement of the hard work and commitment of our staff, volunteers and partners - and not least the individuals on the project here - who prove every day that change is possible.
October 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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'I’ve just been reading a newspaper article – Ministers are pushing through powers to photograph and publicly name and shame people in the justice system who have been ordered to complete unpaid community work in England and Wales...'

Read the full blog here:

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Name and Praise - LandWorks Blog
Hello, I’ve just been reading a newspaper article – Ministers are pushing through powers to photograph and publicly name and shame people in the justice system who have been ordered to complete unpaid...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded this grant. We are very grateful to the members of The Mercers' Company. It feels like a huge endorsement of what we are doing and it will make a real difference here.

#themercerscompany #Charter600

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October 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Officially launched at our Annual Supporter’s Day in August, The Big Thank You is the second edition of the LandWorks Recipe Book, building on the success of our first volume, It Is What It Is.

Follow the link below to buy your copy.

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#recipebook #landworks
"The Big Thank You" - LandWorks Recipe Book - Volume 2
The Big Thank You is the second edition of the LandWorks Recipe Book. So successful was our first volume, it is what it is, that the team and trainees were determined to follow it up. It is a testamen...
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October 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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"I was so nervous, I just didn’t know what to expect. I just didn’t know anything. I did go online and watch the film...'

Latest blog from Kara now available.

#landworks #pen #blog #woodwork #reducing #reoffending #transforming #lives

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Kara says: “I just thought oh my god, I can be like you, I can do it as well.”
“I was so nervous, I just didn’t know what to expect. I just didn’t know anything. I did go online and watch the film. I cried my fucking eyes out, I was just crying all the way through it, y…
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October 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Finding Common Ground: Hannah’s Week at LandWorks

Our latest news story reflects on Hannah's time volunteering at LandWorks.

#landworks #volunteering #standout

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Finding Common Ground: Hannah’s Week at LandWorks - Prisoner Training & Education - Prison Mentoring
25 September 2025 – When Hannah Stevens first set foot in LandWorks in early August, she was stepping into more than just a new volunteering opportunity  ̶  she was stepping into a living embodiment o...
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September 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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“Chris, do you believe in Jesus?”

Oh. Bit unexpected, and it made me think. A lot...'

Chris' latest blog now available.

#landworks #blog #reducing #reoffending #transforming #lives #faith

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Faith - LandWorks Blog
Hello, We’d been chatting about a dog that had come into her life. Her life had been a bit up and down since leaving LandWorks, and this small (clearly adorable) sentient being was life changing. “Chr...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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"That’s what I always liked about it, it’s just a … you know you can come here and feel safe."

Latest blog from Patrick now available.

#landworks #pen #blog #woodwork #reducing #reoffending #transforming #lives

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Patrick says: ‘LandWorks; what I always liked about it, it’s just … you know you can come here and feel safe.”
“I’ve been here a bit longer than the usual six to nine months. Chris has helped me out with that coz yeah, I had to put things in place but I’m a lot more positive and confident leaving now……
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September 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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New Blog

A few weeks ago Chris Parsons asked Gary (at LandWorks in 2017/18) to write a guest blog.

Gary has written a brilliant and a hard-hitting piece, a great insight that needs to be heard...

www.landworks.org.uk/the-truth-about-reoffending/
The Truth About Reoffending - LandWorks Blog
Hello, A few weeks ago, I asked Gary Fulton (here at LandWorks in 2017/18) to write a blog. Gary has written a brilliant and a hard-hitting piece, perhaps slightly longer than our usual blog, but all....
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September 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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We're grateful to @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social for meeting with Chris and Julie Parsons this week and arranging a meeting with @nicdakinmp.bsky.social, Minister at the MoJ - a very positive session and one we hope will lead to further discussions with the Department about the LandWorks approach.
September 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Dittisham Music Festival starts tomorrow 🎵

We have been chosen as one of their charities for 2025.

Please find attached the details of the lovely programme.

#dittisham #dittishammusical #festival #landworks #charity #fundraising #music #september
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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'In six days at LandWorks I’ve accomplished more than six months out of prison, believe it or not. Six months out of prison I have done less work than in the six days at LandWorks.'

Read the latest blog from Jax below.

#landworks #pen #blog #woodwork

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Jax says: “LandWorks is doing something right. It’s gave me a new purpose…”
“Jarvis brought me to LandWorks. Now, it’s gonna sound quite weird but at first they were like how about you go LandWorks, you try this, you try that … I was like nah, f*** it, that ain’t for…
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September 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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A massive thank you to all our supporters who joined us for our Supporters’ Day Celebrations. We welcomed over 150 volunteers, and partners to our annual Supporters Day on Friday 15 August 2025 to celebrate another remarkable year of achievement. Read more here:

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LandWorks Supporters’ Day showcases proven resettlement model amid prison crisis - Prisoner Training & Education - Prison Mentoring
19 August 2025 – LandWorks welcomed over 150 volunteers, and partners to its annual Supporters Day on Friday 15 August 2025 to celebrate another remarkable year of achievement. The sun shone on the Qu...
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August 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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A great article about LandWorks published by The Guardian at the weekend. We really appreciate Sandra Laville visiting us, listening to the experiences of people on the project, and getting to understand what we are trying to do here.

#LandWorks #TheGuardian

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‘A natural antidepressant’: how working with the land is helping ex-prisoners
Reoffending rates are just 5% after a placement at LandWorks in Devon, where they grow, cook and sell their produce
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August 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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It’s been one year since we proudly took home the Overall Award for Excellence at the Charity Awards.

Follow the link below to read the positive impact it has had on us.

#landworks #charityaward #awardwinning #reducing #reoffending #transforming #lives

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Winning the Charity Awards – one year on - Prisoner Training & Education - Prison Mentoring
8 August 2025 – When LandWorks won the ‘Overall Award for Excellence’ at the Charity Awards in July 2024, it marked a major milestone  ̶  not just in recognition, but in momentum. “The timing couldn’t...
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August 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Thank you so much to the organisers of the Dittisham Music Festival for choosing us as one of their charities for 2025.

Here are the details of the lovely festival programme - Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September.

#landworks #dittisham #music #festival #charity #september
August 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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3 days to go...
August 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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'It’s the summer holidays. South Devon is beautiful, sunny and bustling. People are just popping in to visit LandWorks, non-stop!

Chris' latest blog available now.

#landworks #reducing #reoffending #transforming #lives

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Summer Bumper Special - LandWorks Blog - Reducing Reoffending, Transforming Lives
Hello, It’s the summer holidays. South Devon is beautiful, sunny and bustling. People are just popping in to visit LandWorks, non-stop! Often, they completely miss the shop and start wondering around ...
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July 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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'It’s amazing what you do here really....'

Latest blog from Chantal now available. Follow the link in our story.

#landworks #reducing #reoffending #transforming #lives #charity #winning #chairty #devon #totnes #blog #supporters #pen

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Chantal says: “It’s really like what you call therapeutic. When you’re making stuff you’re not thinking about stuff.”
“I was having a panic attack when I got here the first time ‘coz I’m anaemic and stuff […] My probation officer brought me here. I thought it was a bit of a weird setting. I think everyone wa…
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July 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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'There’s a warning of gales…

I thought I was awakening to the shipping forecast (I normally do). I wasn’t, I was lost, dreaming...'

Latest blog from Chris now available.

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The general synopsis - LandWorks Blog - Reducing Reoffending, Transforming Lives
Hello, There’s a warning of gales… I thought I was awakening to the shipping forecast (I normally do). I wasn’t, I was lost, dreaming. Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire. But it was seagulls shrieking...
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July 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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This is an important cause and one that is close to our hearts at LandWorks.

You can support the Just Giving fundraising campaign here: tinyurl.com/2s46uzmm

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Sister to carry Olympic torch-style Baton of Hope in honour of Torquay brother, 20
The sister of a Torquay man who died aged just 20 will be honouring her brother as she plays a leading role in the UK’s biggest suicide prevention event.
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July 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM