Storybook Dads

Formation2003; 21 years ago (2003)[a]
FounderSharon Berry
Founded atHMP Dartmoor
HeadquartersHMP Channings Wood
Location
Key people
Patrons:
Julia Donaldson
Terry Waite
Websitewww.storybookdads.org.uk

Storybook Dads is a non-profit charity in the UK founded by Sharon Berry and first launched in HM Prison Dartmoor in 2003. The charity enables serving prisoners and detainees to record bed time stories which can then be sent home to their children, and aims to maintain connections between serving prisoners and their families.[2] In women's institutions the project operates under the name Storybook Mums.[3][5]

By 2019 the scheme was in place in about 100 British prisons, including women's prisons[5] and has been adopted by members of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy on active service abroad.[6][7] The charity's headquarters is in HMP Channings Wood in Devon, and has inspired similar programmes in other countries, such as the United States, Canada,[8] Australia, Denmark, Hungary, Poland and New Zealand.[9][10]

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  5. ^ a b Shaw, Dougal (23 March 2019). "Reading bedtime stories helped me survive prison". BBC Stories. BBC News. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
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  7. ^ Kemp, Rob (31 October 2008). "My daddy is the man in the telly". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  8. ^ Sterritt, Spencer. "Storybook Dads program helping father figures in prison stay connected". Nanaimo News. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  9. ^ Dungey, Kim (4 September 2010). "Father's Day behind bars". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  10. ^ "Dartmoor Prison's Storybook Dads scheme wins award". BBC News. 25 June 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2017.


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