AIRSPRUNG BEDS
Airsprung Beds Limited,
Canal Road Industrial Estate,
TROWBRIDGE,
Wiltshire.
BA14 8RQ
Prisoners at HMP SHOTTS make bed frames for AIRSPRUNG who sell their products to ARGOS, BENSONS & THE BED SHED amongst others. SPS charge them £2 - £3.50 per bed frame and these items sell for over £100 (including mattress) in the shops.
AIRSPRUNG have a neat system where they ship the materials up from their factory in Wiltshire. These are then made up at HMP SHOTTS and the finished bed frames are shipped back down to Wiltshire from the FAULDHOUSE depot. We also understand that AIRSPRUNG are trying to expand into HMP PERTH. [04/06]
STOP PRESS:
Have ceased trading with SPS Industries -
see AIRSPRUNG BEDS: THE GREAT TRANSPORT COSTINGS MYSTERY. [07/08] |
ALFRED McALPINE
Elevator Road,
Trafford Park,
MANCHESTER.
M17 1B
SPS prisoners make their wooden road frames (as seen on motorways). [12/06] |
ANDREW MITCHELL & Co. Ltd.
15 Dunivaig Place,
Easter Queenslie Estate,
GLASGOW.
G33 4TT
FAX: 0141 773 5455
Hospital trolleys. |
BELHAVEN BREWERIES
Sprott Road Industrial Estate,
DUNBAR,
East Lothian.
EH42 1RS
Contact: ADRAIN
FAX: 01786 465655 |
BISON SAFETY SYSTEMS
Unit 3,
Callendar Business Park,
FALKIRK.
FK1 1XR
Contact: GRAHAM HASTIE
FAX: 013240 633665
SPS help make the TRAILASAFE FALL ARREST SYSTEM for their lorries. [12/06]
STOP PRESS:
Have ceased using SPS Industries and prison slave labour due to the bad publicity. [10/07] |
BSW TIMBER
East End,
EARLSTON,
Berwickshire.
TD4 6JA
TEL: 01896 849255
FAX: 01896 848308
Email: marketing@bsw.co.uk
Have taken over production of timber side of HMP GLENOCHIL, supplying timber to be made into sheds, garden furniture, etc. made for stock and distributed from the SPS stores at Fauldhouse, Bathgate, West Lothian. [12/06] |
CHALLENGE FENCING
Downside Road,
Downside,
COBHAM,
Surrey.
KT11 3LY
TEL: 01932 866555
FAX: 01932 866445
Contact: ALEXANDER STUART CLARKE
STOP PRESS:
Have ceased using SPS Industries and prison slave labour due to the bad publicity. [10/07] |
CHAMPFLEURIE ESTATE LTD
Champfleurie House,
LINLITHGOW,
West Lothian.
EH51 0AU
TEL: 01506 847999
FAX: 01506 847174
Email: info@ChampfleurieEstate.co.uk
Sheds, garden furniture, dog kennels & a gate. [12/06] |
CRECA SAWMILLS
ANNAN,
Dumfrieshire.
DG12 6RP
Contact: ROBERT MAYOR
FAX: 01461 500645
Part of NORTHWEST TIMBER PRODUCTS [Manchester area]. Buy garden furniture & sheds. [12/06] |
A. DIAMOND & SON
35 Newmills Road,
COLERAINE,
Northern Ireland.
BT52 2JB
TEL: 028 7034 3452
FAX: 028 7034 3279
E-Mail: sales@adiamondandson.co.uk |
FORSET GARDEN LTD.
Units 291 & 296,
Hartlebury Trading Estate,
Hartlebury,
KIDDERMISNSTER,
Worcestershire.
DY10 4JB
TEL: 01299 251725
FAX: 01299 254858 |
GIBBS SANDTECH
Station Road,
Braughting,
WARE,
Hertfordshire.
SG11 2PB
Contact: MR GIBBS
TEL: 01920 822404
FAX: 01920 822909
Email: info@gibbsfinishing.com
Modular paint drying racks. |
GLENEAGLES HOTEL
AUCHTERARDER.
Perthshire.
PH3 1NF
Contact: INA
FAX: 01764 662134
Yes, those nice people that hosted the 2005 G8 Summit: surrounding themselves with £1M 6 foot high steel fence, protected by over 10 000 police (many armed), some of them part of a helicopter-borne attack force. All backed up with SAS teams, snipers and US Marines, at a total cost of over £100M, 700 arrests and 350 people charged. Just to provide a nice comfortable few days in the Scottish countryside for that gang of crooks that like to pass themselves off as 'world leaders'. Yes, they use slave labour.
The inmates of HMP LOW MOSS in Bishopbriggs, north east of Glasgow, can't see the mountains and glens of Perthshire, location of the self-styled "Palace in the Glen", from where they are. And they certainly couldn't afford to pay for a room (the cheapest double rooms start at £285 a night) at Gleneagles, even if they were not banged up in some of the worst living conditions found in Scottish nicks, [1] with the pittance they are paid for their prison work. However, these 'guests at her majesty's pleasure' can always comfort themselves in the knowledge that they make their little contribution to the smooth running of this exclusive hotel and the comfort of its better class of customer. Low Moss prison's 'customers' do their bit by having to make laundry bags, which SPS sell to the hotel for £1.75 each, together with other high class textile laundry items as part of their rehabilitation. Beats hard labour breaking rocks I suppose.
So, next time you find yourself in a Gleneagles hotel room, check out the label on the inside of the bag and you will see SLM, HMP Low Moss' identification tag.
1 "The living conditions in the unmodernised dormitories remain the worst feature of the prison. Twenty seven prisoners are living in one undivided room, which is almost impossible to keep clean and in which it would be very easy to feel unsafe. Successive reports have been highly critical of this entirely unsuitable accommodation." HM Inspectorate of Prisons, 2005. See: www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/04111236/12370
[12/06]
STOP PRESS:
GLENEAGLES HOTEL has pulled out of it's contract with SPS Industries due to the adverse publicity generated by it's being featured as one of CAPS Companies of the Month. [05/07] |
HILLHOUT LTD
Unit 18,
Ellough Industrial Estate,
Ellough Road,
BECCLES,
Suffolk.
NR34 7TD
Contact: WENDY DURRANT
w.durrant@btconnect.com
TEL: 01502 718091
FAX: 01502 718082
Garden furniture & fencing. [12/06]
STOP PRESS:
Have ceased using SPS Industries and prison slave labour due to the bad publicity. [10/07] |
KDM INTERNATIONAL
18, The Havens,
Ransomes Business Park,
IPSWICH,
Suffolk.
IP3 95J
Contact: IVAN WALSH
ivan@kdm.co.uk
FAX: 01473 276911
Athol garden furniture, sheds, etc. [12/06] |
LOMAX MOBILITY
Chalmers Building,
Charles Bowman Avenue,
Claverhouse Business Park,
DUNDEE.
DD4 9UB
Contact: JOHN RANKIN
TEL: 01382 503000
FAX: 01382 503550
Poly bags & other small items. [04/06]
STOP PRESS:
Have ceased using SPS Industries and prison slave labour due to the bad publicity. Have recently been taken over by Sunrise Medical, an American company who allegedly were more than a little distressed to find that Lomax were exploiting British slave labour. Pity that other US firms do not show the same ethical standards as Sunrise Medical, as the Prison Industrial Complex is even more rampant in the USA. [10/07] |
MARTEC ENGINEERING
58 Southcroft Road,
Rutherglen,
GLASGOW.
G73 1UG
Contact: JIM ANDERSON
TEL: 0141 647 6789
FAX: 0141 646 1056
Engineering, metal fabrication items – ramps, gates, etc. [12/06]
STOP PRESS:
Have ceased using SPS Industries and prison slave labour due to the bad publicity. [10/07] |
MIMS POTTERIES
76-80 Glentanar Road,
Balmore Industrial Estate,
GLASGOW.
G22 7XS
TEL: 0141 336 2636
FAX:0141 336 2626
Email: sales@mimspottery.com |
P & A FENCING
Mold Industrial Estate,
Wrexham Road,
MOLD,
Flintshire.
CH7 4HE
TEL: 01352 752555
FAX: 01352 755200
E-mail: sales@p-a-group.com
Athol sheds and garden products. |
ROYAL MAIL
Royal Amil House,
Station Road,
CHESTER.
CH1 3AA
Contact: JASON SODEN
Email: jason.soden@royalmail.com
FAX: 01246 546215
Delivery trolleys parts. [Early 05/08] |
SPEEDY HIRE PLC
Chase House,
16 The Parks,
NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS,
Merseyside.
WA12 0JQ
TEL: 01942 720000
FAX: 01942 720077
Email: admin@speedyhire.plc.uk
The latest firm to negotiate a Contract Services agreement with HMP Shotts, in this case the refurbishments of tools and equipment. Currently they are refurbishing motorway works lighting equipment. Speedy Hire have also been trialling workshop training schemes with the EPS at HMP Garth and HMP Pentonville and have recruited a number of prisoners upon their release. [07/08] |
STEWART FENCING LTD
Blairlinn Industrial Estate,
11 Green Road,
CUMBERLAND,
Stratchclyde.
G67 2TU
TEL: 01236 727776
FAX: 01236 780313 |
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COMPANIES THAT HAVE ENDED OR MODIFIED THEIR CONTRACTS
WITH SPS
DUE TO BAD PUBLICITY
BRITANNIA GARDEN PRODUCTS
Britannia House,
Hertford Street,
ASHTON UNDER LYNE,
Lancashire.
OL7 0TJ
Contact: RICHARD WADDEL
FAX: 01244 354375
Email: sales@britfence.co.uk |
LOMAX MOBILITY
See above.
According to our contacts, LOMAX pulled out of contract to make wheelchair covers in SPS workshops due to adverse publicity. |
MERIT GARDEN PRODUCTS
Church Street,
Thurston,
BURY ST EDMONDS,
Suffolk.
IP31 3RG
Contact: EDDIE CLARKE
Tel: 01359 - 271363
Fax: 01359 - 270850
Email: info@meritgardenproducts.co.uk |
PETER SMITH GARDEN FURNITURE
Dick Lane,
BRADFORD,
West Yorkshire.
BD4 8JD
TEL: 01274 664000
FAX: 01274 667059
Garden furniture, etc. |
TREW GATES
Unit 2-3,
Yr Eifl Quarry,
Trefor,
CAERNARFON,
Gwynedd.
LL54 5LH
TEL: 01286 660 918
FAX: 01286 660 687
Email: info@trewgates.com |
WICKES
Customer Services,
Rhosili Road,
Brackmills Industrial Estate,
NORTHAMPTON,
Northamptonshire.
NN4 7JE
Used to use HMP GLENOCHIL to produce:
BOW TOP GATE [made for £15.00]
PALISADE FENCE PACK [made for £4.85]
FENCE POSTS [made for £1.28] [05/05]
but we are lead to believe by our contacts that the unwanted publicity towards the end of 2005 lead them to pull out of their contract with SPS. Up till then they had squeezed the price per item so much that SPS were loosing £2- per gate, not even covering the material costs. The stores at:
SPS HQ Industries,
Central Store,
Main Street,
Fauldhouse,
BATHGATE,
West Lothian.
EH47 9DJ
FAX: 01501 771835
Customer Services: 01501 773983
Sales: 01501 773980
still hold WICKES stock left from before their pullout. WICKES now claim that none of their products are manufacture in prisons or by prisoners in Britain or other countries. Although they are believed to be currently negotiating a new contract - we are awaiting news on this.
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