CLIP is hugely grateful for support from the local community that has enabled CLIP to support activities carried out in these areas, mainly through the funding of tutors, materials and subscriptions. This has increased the prison’s capacity to undertake community projects and generate income through the sale of products.
They also provide prisoners with a positive environment where they can gain invaluable work experience, trade qualifications and life-based skills.
Main Workshop
Upcycling furniture and providing an area for prisoners to train in plumbing, painting, and decorating.
The Carpentry Workshop
CLIP fully funded the build and fit out of a separate unit within the perimeter of the prison, comprising a dedicated carpentry facility. It is used for crafting and restoring furniture and undertaking community-based projects.
Indoor Assembly Area
Mending and ironing Guernsey jumpers and creating World Aid Walk medals, designing and painting items for the CLIP shop and packing various documentation. The barbering salon is also housed here.
Education Block
Providing classroom environments, including an IT suite for in person and online learning.
To support our workshops, we have established contracts with several local businesses and other charities that provide both meaningful ‘real’ work for prisoners that supports the community and an income stream for CLIP.
Any profits generated are reinvested back into the charity to provide additional learning opportunities for prisoners. Current contracts include packing coffee for Bean 14, ironing and hand-finishing Guernsey jumpers for Le Tricoteur, upcycling furniture and servicing bikes for GO. In addition, our main carpentry workshop undertakes numerous community projects, for example, making benches for La Vallette and Floral Guernsey, planters for each parish, mud kitchens and outdoor activity equipment for schools, and seating in the children’s library, to name just a few.
Where possible, we are also committed to sustainability and recycle as much of our waste as possible with daily prison collections of cardboard, plastics, food and general waste. Sawdust produced in the carpentry workshop is also recycled using a machine supplied by CLIP to compress it into briquettes which are then sold as fuel for open fires and/or woodturning stoves.
