We’re Food Behind Bars.
We believe that food has the power to transform lives.
We are looking for an experienced grower and gardener to help us transform an unused greenhouse at HMP Swinfen Hall into a working kitchen garden. This is an exciting opportunity to create something sustainable within the prison grounds that will benefit the population for years to come. As our Kitchen Garden Educator, you will deliver a day of outdoor education and hand-on work with a group of prisoners every other week for 12 months.
KITCHEN
GARDEN
EDUCATOR
To apply or find out more, please get in touch with us via info@foodbehindbars.co.uk
Our Impact
“Thank you so much for taking the time out to do this for the guys, it has been so fun to work with you and put a smile of the guys faces through a tough time. All the ingredients were superb and as an establishment we can’t thank you enough for funding it all and creating this initiative for us.”
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Our work addresses three questions:
What needs to be done to make tasty, nutritious food available to prisoners?
How do we encourage and excite prisoners about eating healthily?
What role should cooking and food play in prison life, to make an impact to a prisoners life?
About Us
We are the UK’s only Registered Charity dedicated to transforming the food served in British prisons. We work with prisons on the subject of food - to improve the lives of those eating it and support the people making it. Our aim is to positively impact the health and wellbeing of prisoners, by delivering practical food-based education, promoting healthy eating and designing exciting food and drink initiatives.
Our projects and activities cover every aspect of food, cooking, eating and hospitality. We work with prisons on a bespoke basis, co-designing original initiatives that enable prisons to champion wholesome, tasty and exciting food. Our work is shaped around each unique establishment and united by our philosophy of wholesome food for everyone in society.