Our CEO and co-founder Penny Parker recently joined a StandOut workshop in HMP Wandsworth and reflects how, even in a shorter version of our full programme, the men found a safe space to be vulnerable.

Last year, we supported Joey via the StandOut Helpline service as he prepared to leave HMP Wandsworth. Almost a year later, we caught up with Joey to find out what prison was like during the pandemic and how StandOut supported him to navigate the challenges since being released.

After two years’ working in HMP Pentonville as a prison officer through the Unlocked Gradudate programme, John Sampson reflects on his first six months as our Lead Coach in Pentonville and delivering StandOut’s first face-to-face workshops since the pandemic began.

Louisa Laven, StandOut’s first Community Coach, joins us after two and a half years working as a prison officer through the Unlocked Graduate programme. Louisa reflects on what brought her to StandOut and how she has spent her first weeks with the team...

At the start of Erin’s first Pentonville course in February none of us could have predicted that it would be cut short two days before graduation, or that six months later we would still be having our team meetings via Zoom…