Furniture

The workshop supervisors help men and women to make garden furniture including rabbit hutches, hedgehog boxes and furniture for the home such as racks for DVDs. All wood used is from sustainable forests.

Please view pictures of the products on the left, and where these can be purchased below:

• Age Concern Birstall 0116 2672098
• Blaby 0116 2781208
• Lutterworth 01455 550029
• Melton 0164410099
• Oadby 0116 2717989
• Animal Aid 0116 2718208
• Barnardo’s L’boro 01509 264145
• Brookside School Cancer Research 0116 2394913
• Glenfield Allotment Association
• Harvey House
• Hoby Church
• Leicester Hedgehog Rescue
• Mind 0116 2885554
• Rainbows 01509 638000/online
• Ratby Pre-school Group
• Ridgeway School
• Rowley Fields Allotment Association
• RSPCA 0116 2242434
• Salvation Army 0116 2548901
• Shuttlewood Foundation 01530 244914
• Stanton Under Bardon School
• Stoke Golding Parish Council
• Victims Support 0116 2519050
• Washbrook Allotment Society
• Woodside Hedgehog Rescue 0116 2881333

TRUSTY BAGS

LRPT has recently installed five sewing machines for offenders to use, who are being trained by an expert sewing enthusiast. The teams of men and women are making the bags from donated curtain material, which are sold to raise money for victims of crime.

The Probation tailored design is called a Trusty Bag, which stands for:

• T Training
•  R Recycling
•  U Unpaid Work
•  S Sewing
•  T Trust in our bags
•  Y Your contribution to saving the planet. 

The programme initially began with offenders sewing Morsbags, a national campaign founded by Pol Morsman to get people making cloth shopping bags, which are given away free. The Probation Service is still contributing, but has launched its own design to generate funds for Victim Support and to cover sewing machine maintenance costs.

Sewing enthusiast Maddie Shipley, who also works for the Probation Service as a supervisor, said:

The new workers are sometimes a bit reluctant to begin with, but by the end of the day they became really enthusiastic. Both men and women feel positive about what they are doing and they can understand there are many benefits to their work.

FINAL CURTAIN

The Probation Trust is appealing for donations of old curtain material or blankets. Don’t just bin them, please bring them down to:
Victim Support Charity Shop, 12 Market Place, Leicester.