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Experience an EGGâCELLâent Easter behind bars! Join in on our Easter activities as you hop down to Shrewsbury Prison, running from the 1st â16th April. Choose from two EGGâCELLâent escape rooms, the perfect way to get together as a family and enjoy a day out with a difference. From battling the locks and defying darkness […]
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The Apprentice 2023 Â Episode 8 gave everyone a little taste of Shrewsbury Prisonâs Team Building Behind Bars offering, albeit not exactly how our Prison Officers would have delivered the event. Our corporate experiences have been carefully thought out and developed into three easily digested packages; Enjoy & Reward, Engage & Inspire and Enthuse & Energise. […]
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10 years ago, in March 2013, the Ministry of Justice carried out the decision as part of the national reorganisation of prisons, to close seven âold and uneconomicâ public-sector prisons in a bid to cut costs. On the date of Shrewsbury Prisonâs closure, 31st of March 2013, the prison staff paraded through the prison gates. […]
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By now, you have no doubt seen the episode where our beautiful county, Shropshire, made a debut on The Apprentice. The episode saw the candidates split into two teams; Afinity and Apex, who competed at Shrewsbury Prison and Blists Hill Victorian Town respectively, hosting and delivering an immersive experience at both venues. They were tasked […]
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From bolshy boardroom squabbles to eye-rolling dramas, whoâs next in line to become Lord Alan Sugarâs next aspiring business partner of 2023? The BBCâs The Apprentice series 17 returned to our screens in January with 18 fresh candidates all eager to win, and you may have noticed glimpses of whatâs been happening behind the familiar […]
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Shrewsbury Prison puts âEducation Behind Barsâ with the launch of a newly created National Educational Programme for Schools, Colleges, and Universities. Created by a team of specialists in education and history, the Education Behind Bars Programme is aligned with the national curriculum and has been designed to support learning through thought provoking exercises and activities. […]
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2023 is the start of an exciting year for Educational Visits at Shrewsbury Prison. With a brand-new year ahead of us and hundreds of students already booked in we certainly have a feeling that this year is going to be one of our best. After February half term, our new Education Behind Bars Programme is […]
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Whilst December is known for its month-long excuse to celebrate, January and the start of 2023 has not slowed down one bit at Shrewsbury Prison for our events and activities teams. Whether running fun filled childrenâs Birthday parties, orchestrating Team Building Behind Bars, a package focused on corporate days out, or showing a group of […]
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Over 3 days, Shrewsbury Prison has enrolled a training programme, allowing our team members to grow in their development and strengthen the skills that each of our employees here at Shrewsbury Prison aspire to improve. The training session covers a range of development programmes and sessions. This immersive training opportunity, allows development, interaction, improvement and […]
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It feels like weâve only just entered 2023, but already February half term is fast-approaching, so much so, that most may not have had the chance to give a second thought to how to entertain the whole family during this little break. Stuck on what to do with the kids? Shrewsbury Prison has come […]
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Amongst the hustle and bustle of December with Christmas arriving quickly, Educational Visits at Shrewsbury Prison were coming to an end for 2022. From quotes from one school saying, âIt was the best school trip they had ever done!â to stories of the shock on students faces when being issued with their standard issue orange […]
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Over the weekend of the 10th and 11th December Shrewsbury Prison held our annual festive Christmas Market. Following the success of last yearâs market with a difference combined with the recent cost of living crunch, we made the decision to once again give back to the public and residents of Shrewsbury by making entry to […]
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