Month: October 2024

The Prison Phoenix Trust has reached a milestone of 10 contracts providing yoga, meditation or mindfulness programmes to prisons throughout England.

People serving sentences in HMP Maidstone now have the chance to take care of their mental and physical health with regular yoga and meditation classes in the prison’s new sports hall.

The contract to deliver a year of yoga classes was awarded through the Ministry of Justice Dynamic Purchasing System and guarantees reliability and certainty for prison staff and students.

Courses lasting 6 weeks will run 7 times over the course of the year, allowing more than 200 prisoners to take part over the year. Continue Reading

Two new faces have joined The Prison Phoenix Trust, expanding and strengthening its staff team and board of trustees.  

Rebecca Durrant, has joined as deputy director.  She has over 15 years of experience working in small charities in operations and deputy director roles, including most recently managing a food bank in East Oxford. She is helping the organisation plan and implement systems changes needed for it to meet the demand for its services from a growing prison population.  

Stefan Lerche, joins The PPT’s board of trustees.  He lives in Hertfordshire and has a background in human resources, learning and development and organisational development. He works as a business psychologist and executive coach in the IT sector.   Continue Reading