Providers
Safe Ground
Safe Ground educates prisoners and young people at risk in the community. We use drama to help these groups resist the forces of social exclusion and institutionalisation.
Safe Ground practises the view that you can’t hope to motivate students unless you take care to see the world from their perspective. Any good teacher will agree, and the principle is as true of prisoners as of children. We believe that imaginative, participative education is a fundamental right for every student, not a privilege for prisoners ‘with the furthest to travel.
Safe ground's two flagship courses – Family Man and Fathers Inside – encourage prisoners to form their own interpretations. The use of drama liberates their creativity and gives their thoughts manoeuvring room. We make their experience active, not passive, and they come to own what they learn.