Founder of StandOut: supporting people in prison to get ready for life outside @StandOut_HQ
Joined February 2011
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29 Apr 2020
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29 Apr 2020
How the resilience of @StandOut_HQ trainees is encouraging and inspiring the organisation's staff through #COVID19
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27 Jun 2025
🌟Meet our twelve finalists of the CSJ Awards 2025.
💪These small charities work hard to serve some of the most challenged communities across the UK.
🏆Keep an eye on our social media as we build up to announce our Award winners in November.
#SmallCharityWeek
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11 Jul 2024
This is a fantastic recognition of the life-changing work of @LandWorksHQ 👏🏻👏🏻🎉🎉
10 Jul 2024
.@LandWorksHQ takes top prize at the #CharityAwards 2024 🏆
Read the full article here:
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Delivered with overall awards partner CCLA
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Penny Parker retweeted
5 Jul 2024
From @guardian, our CEO's response to news that 74% fewer people in prison took a rehabilitative course in 2023 than in 2010.
Charities like ours fill gaps left by government. We hope for a sensible debate on our justice system & an end to the crisis in our prisons.
@StandOutPP
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28 May 2024
What happens when you encourage people in prison to connect with people in the community?
From building confidence to systems change, we spoke about what it means to volunteer in prison as we celebrated @PA_Consulting reaching 100 StandOut volunteers.
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22 May 2024
Last year @DuniaShafik joined us for a week-long placement as part of @cjalliance ELEVATE CJS lived experience leadership programme
It was great to have Dunia as part of the team, to learn from her & listen as she told her story as powerfully & generously as she does in her blog
22 May 2024
When Dunia's son was drawn into a cycle of crime, life turned upside down in a matter of days.
In this blog, she shares her profound grief, systemic failures, and how heartbreak led her to found A Life of Choices, helping at-risk youth and men in prison. criminaljusticealliance.org/…
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19 May 2024
Hoping for a London transfer @JacobFreeeman! Congratulations for this &your tireless work to show the power of #restorativejustice
Your story is one I used for many years as a Sycamore Tree Tutor in prison: it’s a story that totally deserves the wider telling it is now getting👏🏻
19 May 2024
Another great article about the power of restorative justice and why everyone should see Punch
@mrJamesGraham
@JacobFreeeman
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19 May 2024
“I believe everyone is redeemable, if you approach their difficulties in the right light &treat them as worthy of trust” - a brilliant segue from a personal story of broken trust by @TommyShakes on @BBCr4 A Point of View. Thank you for your exposition of the challenges & 1/3
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19 May 2024
& your reflections of all that has gone wrong in our prisons,
& society’s attitudes to people in prison, but also for your rational exploration of what we want &need from our justice system. It is refreshing to hear a voice with no axe to grind over what works &why we should2/3
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19 May 2024
all be concerned by the state of our prisons and the shocking levels of remand.
Tom goes on to say “Prison brutalises too many rather than reforming people”. It also means that the work that the 3rd sector does bringing hope & person centred care is critically important. 3/3
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15 May 2024
@neill_bob again standing up to talk about #jointenterprise & the need to clarify the law so innocent people do not suffer #injustice There should be no argument.
It’s better 10 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man be wrongly convicted. @JENGbA @sounddelivery @Channel4News
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15 May 2024
This has been an important aim for a while. If you work in the justice space want to understand more about the impact of trauma and how you might respond in your work for the benefit of the people you support and yourself and your teams then we recommend @TheNelsonTrust
14 May 2024
Last week @TheNelsonTrust helped us reflect on what it means to be trauma informed in our work with people leaving prison.
We came away encouraged that - while there's always room to grow - our commitment to relational working means we’re absolutely on the right path.
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Penny Parker retweeted
8 May 2024
Why do HMPPS need to be ‘urgently notified’ about a prison that people have been telling them is in crisis for months? If they can now develop a plan within ‘28 days’ to fix it, why not before? If Katie Price was the problem why have they not already moved or supported her?
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7 May 2024
I’m proud to be handing over as Chair of the Employment Advisory Board network to Rosie Brown. When I started 4 years ago to help prison leavers find work, only 14% had a job after six months of release. We are now at over 30%, and 92 prisons have an EAB in place!
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29 Apr 2024
Another insightful, honest blog from @LandWorksHQ on the value of long term support getting to the root of the problem. sShort term thinking plagues so many areas of life. @StandOut_HQ we know what Chris says is true - we have a choice -currently our #cjs chooses to waste £.
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25 Apr 2024
We started this week on a real high, discussing a series of poems with men at HMP Pentonville - on the theme of resilience.
This line - from Invictus, by William Ernest Henley - resonated with us all.
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9 Apr 2024
Join us ? We’re building a great team, come and be part of the StandOut story
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9 Apr 2024
👟Dig out your trainers and tie up those shoelaces, we’re looking for runners to join our team for @RoyalParksHalf 2024!
Weave your way around London's world famous landmarks, all while raising funds to support our vital work.
Register your interest: bit.ly/3Ii41eO
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Penny Parker retweeted
27 Mar 2024
📑 Unrestricted funding in action! 💰 Dive into the latest @IVAR_UK briefing paper featuring insights from @RealLauraRoling from @bromleytrust and charity leaders Naomi Delap from @Brthcompanions & @StandOutPP Read more: ivar.org.uk/publication/unde… #UnrestrictedFunding #CharityImpact
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Penny Parker retweeted
27 Mar 2024
🆕 Can people in prison make choices?
Our participants at HMP Pentonville recently discussed just that.
👇 Amy shares the highlights of the session, which centred on the idea that our seemingly insignificant daily choices lead us to success or failure.
standout.org.uk/blog/the-sli…
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Penny Parker retweeted
23 Mar 2024
Great synergy between these two brilliant Corbett Network members. Delighted at this collaboration.
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