Welcome to our shop, selling items made by our trainees across the North East. Here, you can shop handmade wooden gifts, recycled plastic products and printed clothing, or commission your own bespoke item.
Every order helps create practical training and confidence, offering our trainees routes into employment or positive ways to spend their time.
I work as a prolific offender coordinator within police and my role is to reduce re-offending, I work with offenders who have been within court and prison system for numerous years.
Handcrafted has been instrumental in providing training, skills and support to help these most chaotic offenders in the local community. To a lot of people going to work each day would be a normal part of life. The majority of the prolific offenders within the offender management unit have very little or in some cases no work experience.
Handcrafted have provided the opportunity to build their confidence, self-belief, working with others and learning a trade. They get a huge sense of achievement working on various projects within Handcrafted. The staff are always very supportive and Handcrafted has become a valuable partner agency.