Lady Edwina Grosvenor

During her time in Nepal, Grosvenor worked for The Esther Benjamins Trust, a charity which works to have innocent children removed from prison.[11] She also worked at the Central Jail in Kathmandu.[7] Lady Edwina commissioned research by the Corston Coalition into the needs of women offenders,[10][12] spent a year as a support worker at Cheshire's HM Prison Styal,[13] then worked in HM Prison Garth in Lancashire, helping with the restorative justice program.[13] She sits on the Advisory Board for Female Offenders under the Secretary of State for Justice[11][14] and, from 2007 to 2010, was an advisor to James Jones, then Bishop of Liverpool and Bishop to Her Majesty's Prisons.[2][10][15] In 2009, Grosvenor became the founding investor of The Clink, a British charity that identifies the training and support needed for prisoners to find jobs following release.[10][16] The Clink restaurant, a fine-dining training restaurant, opened in HM Prison High Down in 2009.[6] She became a trustee of the charity in 2011, before stepping down as a trustee in 2018. She now serves as one of The Clink ambassadors.[17]

In 2014, Grosvenor presented the BBC Radio 4 Charity Appeal for the Prisoners' Advice Service.[18][19] In 2015, she visited Ellesmere College and delivered a speech about prison reform and rehabilitation.[6] She founded One Small Thing, a charity that seeks to understand the trauma within the prison system and raise awareness of how compassion and respect can prevent women from re-offending.[10][20] One Small Thing trains prison staff about trauma, helps them change their behaviour to protect women inmates, and develops trauma services within prisons.[21] Edwina founded the Becoming Trauma Informed program across the Female Prison Estate in England and Wales.[21] In September 2017, One Small Thing collaborated with the Rumi Foundation to research women's prisons around the country.[20] In 2018, One Small Thing was awarded the Howard League for Penal Reform's Criminal Justice Champion Award.[22]

Grosvenor is a trustee of the Centre for Mental Health, and has established trauma-informed mental health workshops in women's prisons.[9][23] She is an ambassador of the No Way Trust, which educates students about the realities of prison life, and crime and consequences,[24] and hosts the podcast "Justice", in which she discusses the environment of British prisons.[25] Grosvenor became a member of the advisory board to the Centre for Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford,[10] and, in 2020, donated £90,000 to the University of Oxford to fund the Death Penalty Research Unit.[26] She is a member of the Vice Chancellor's Circle of Benefactors of the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law.[27] Lady Edwina works on a project called Hope Street, a healing community alternative for women who were in custody prior to sentencing or already served their sentences alongside their children.[8][28] She also works with Pathways, a London-based community regeneration program that helps to create sustainable businesses run by former offenders.[2]

In January 2022, Grosvenor became a founding member of the Global Philanthropic Advisory Board.[10] She is a patron of Paladin, a non-profit advocacy service for victims of stalking.[10][29] In March 2022, she became the High Sheriff of Hampshire.[30]

In July 2018, Grosvenor was awarded an honorary fellowship of Liverpool John Moores University for her contribution to public life.[24]