The prison has a variety of workshops where prisoners are allocated to work. The aim is to replicate what goes on in the community and we have established contracts with a number of local businesses and other charities which as well providing meaningful ‘real’ work for prisoners also provide a small income stream for CLIP with any profits being reinvested 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 for GO; servicing bikes for GO. In addition our main carpentry workshop undertakes numerous community projects (e.g. benches at La Valette, planters for each parish, Floral Guernsey benches, mud kitchens and outdoor activity equipment for schools, the Guille-Alles Children’s Library reading tree, etc. etc.) We also recycle as much of our own waste as possible with daily collections within the prison 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 &/or woodturning stoves.