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Over the summer The PPT brought together policymakers, prison leaders, practitioners and people with lived experience at the House of Lords for ‘Prisons: A Time of Change’, hosted by Baroness Jan Royall. As The Prison Phoenix Trust looks ahead to its 40th anniversary in 2028, the event explored change on multiple levels: changing policy, changing prison conditions, and perhaps most importantly, the possibility of profound personal change. Then prisons minister Lord James Timpson recognised the impact of The PPT’s work: continue reading
In 2025 The PPT created a 12-week yoga course, Freedom Inside with Yoga, for people to follow in their cells in HMP Erlestoke on prison service laptops, known as Launchpads. Part of a 2-year research project, this is a collaboration with colleagues in His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and Royal Holloway University of London. It aims to contribute to an evidence base that will help the wider criminal justice sector understand how digital learning and enrichment projects can be continue reading
The Prison Phoenix Trust is recruiting a new voluntary position of TREASURER to join our Board of Trustees. Who we are We are the leading yoga charity in the UK and Ireland, sharing meditation and yoga with people in prison since 1988.