Join the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB). The IMB helps to ensure that proper standards of care and decency are maintained in places of detention including prison and immigration detention centres. IMB monitor activity across the establishment to ensure individuals are being treated fairly and humanely. Applicants do not need any special qualifications or experience as we will provide all necessary training and support. Candidates need to be over 18 years of age and live within approximately 30 miles of the prison.
We welcome people from all walks of life and are keen to increase membership diversity, including younger people and those from minority communities. You just need to be over 18 and live within 30 miles of the place you’ll be monitoring. All necessary training and support will be provided during the 12 month induction and mentoring period.
Although this is an unpaid role, we pay travel and subsistence expenses, childcare/carer costs and, in certain circumstances, contributions towards loss of earnings.
If you think you may be interested, then book onto our next virtual open evening to find out more about the role and hear from some of our existing volunteers. Alternatively, please visit imb.org.uk/prison-volunteer/prison-volunteer-uk/and apply now.
Do you care about what goes on behind locked doors?
Do you believe that everyone should be treated fairly and humanely regardless of who they are or what they’ve done? Would you also like a role which provides insight into a world that few people see?
If so, then you could join our team of ordinary people doing an extraordinary role: independent monitors in prisons and immigration detention. Appointed by ministers, you would have unrestricted access to these closed places and all those within them.
We are looking for people who have the following qualities:
•A desire to help those who are shut out from society
•Integrity and honesty
•Objectivity, with the ability to analyse situations and make decisions accordingly
•Perseverance
•Good communication skills
•A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
•The ability to work with others in an open and fair manner
We welcome people from all walks of life and are keen to increase membership diversity, including younger people and those from minority communities. You just need to be over 18 and live within 30 miles of the place you’ll be monitoring. All necessary training and support will be provided during the 12 month induction and mentoring period.
Although this is an unpaid role, we pay travel and subsistence expenses, childcare/carer costs and, in certain circumstances, contributions towards loss of earnings.
If you think you may be interested, then book onto our next virtual open evening to find out more about the role and hear from some of our existing volunteers. Alternatively, please visit imb.org.uk/prison-volunteer/prison-volunteer-uk/and apply now.
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