A charity which gets prisoners stitching is holding an event to continue its good work
I have, at times, though guilty of nothing more than an outr’ taste in clothes, thought that going to jail might not be such a bad thing. Think of all the books you could get through! I contemplate it for about three seconds before realising what a tool I’m being.
But it is true that prisoners do have plenty of time on their hands – sometimes up to 23 hours a day, for years at a stretch. The problem with British prisons today is that most prisoners spend that locked up in their cells, rather than with any kind of purposeful activity – the sort of thing that gives them skills and helps to fit them for life after prison.
That’s why Fine Cell Work is such a great charity: it gets prisoners embroidering and stitching, producing retail-worthy cushions and cars and fulfilling private commissions from celebrities and royalty. You’ll be able to read a lot more about them in the next issue of Spear’s, but for the moment I wanted to bring to your attention their charity evening on Thursday 20 November.
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It’s being held in the grand surroundings of the Foreign Office’s Locarno Suite, with patrons Esther Freud and David Morrissey presiding. Freud and Morrissey will be doing the draw for a rather superb prize: for a ’50 raffle ticket, you stand a chance of winning an aquamarine stone worth over ’35,000, donated by ‘gem hunter’ Guy Clutterbluck. The prize also includes ’1,500 towards a setting by Georgina Skan, late of Garrard and Asprey. I hope to see you there.
Tickets for the champagne reception are ’75 from here.
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