• Release on Temporary Licence (RoTL) provide prisoners with the opportunity to go out to work within the community, helping to prepare them for resettlement on release.
  
  Prisoners who qualify for this privilege are subject to a thorough risk assessment to ensure their suitability for the scheme.
   
• We are always on the look-out for new RoTL opportunities to both strengthen links with the local community and maximise the rehabilitative support we can offer to prisoners.

Official Prison Visitor (OPV) volunteer

You can volunteer to become an Official Prison Visitor (OPV), providing support to prisoners who do not have any friends or family able to visit them in custody.

OPVs offer a friendly relationship to those they visit and provide regular contact which is sympathetic and sensible, but independent of the prison and its staff.

Confidences about family, past behaviour and prison life remain between the OPV and the prisoner, however OPVs must report any threat or security risks to staff, fellow prisoners or the prison that may arise from any conversations. OPVs provide a link to the wider community, ensuring that the prisoner knows that they have not been forgotten.

Find out more

To find out more about becoming an Official Prison Visitor contact PBChaplaincy@sodexogov.co.uk

Other volunteering opportunities

We welcome volunteers to help in many areas of the prison, assisting prisoners in their education and skills development.

Find out more

To find out more about volunteering opportunities and the roles available please contact Friends of Peterborough Prison.

To find out more about working in Sodexo Justice, please visit Working in our prisons (sodexo.com)