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Art-Alive Art Trust |
| AAAT employs the therapeutic and educational benefits of art tuition and work with two groups: 1) young people of primary school age with behavioural and or learning difficulties and 2) ex-offenders and offenders in prison. |
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Arts Alliance |
| The Arts Alliance is the national body for the promotion of arts in the Criminal Justice Sector. |
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Changing Tunes |
| Changing Tunes is a registered charity that uses music teaching, rehearsing, recording, performance, improvisation and composition to aid the rehabilitation of prisoners and ex-prisoners. We have been doing this work for over ten years. The common purpose created through the shared experience of making music provides many opportunities to befriend, build self-esteem, educate, assist and change attitudes of offenders. |
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Clean Break |
| Clean Break uses theatre for personal and political change, working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system. Find out more about |
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Fine Cell Work |
| Fine Cell Work is a Registered Charity that teaches needlework to prison inmates and sells their products. The prisoners do the work when they are locked in their cells, and the earnings give them hope, skills and independence. |
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Geese Theatre Company |
| Geese Theatre Company is a team of actors and group workers who present interactive drama and conduct workshops, staff training and consultation within the Criminal Justice System. The company has an international reputation for innovative work with offenders and youth at risk and since 1987 has worked in more than 150 custodial institutions and with 42 probation areas. During this time, we have worked with more than 150,000 offenders and 30,000 other individuals. We work internationally with: * offenders in prison, on probation, or in mental health settings * young people who are seen to be at risk of offending and who have offended * professionals who work with these client groups |
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Inside Job Productions |
| Inside Job Productions is a unique new non-profit multi-media production company which works with women prisoners to produce highly professional video, print and multi-media products with a social purpose |
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Jail Guitar Doors |
| Jail Guitar Doors is an independent initiative which aims to provide instruments to those who are using music as a means of achieving the rehabilitation of prison inmates. |
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Koestler Trust |
| We are the UK's best-known prison arts charity. We have been awarding, exhibiting and selling artworks by offenders, detainees and secure patients for 47 years. |
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Music in Prisons |
| The Irene Taylor Trust ‘Music in Prisons’ delivers high quality creative music projects in prisons throughout the UK and has worked at the forefront of arts and rehabilitation since 1995. Bringing music-making to men and women of all ages, the Trust provides positive experiences and helps in the process of rehabilitation, education and the forming of life skills |
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Only Connect |
| Only Connect works to prevent crime by helping offenders restore their lives practically and emotionally. We assist our members in the seven pathways to reducing re-offending used by the National Offender Management Service. |
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Playing for Time |
| Playing for Time Theatre Company stages plays with prisoners and undergraduate students working together. Students act as mentors helping prisoners with aspects of their performance, for example, line-learning and aspects of self-presentation and performance. Plays are chosen for the learning that is embedded in the play itself in terms of content, themes and context. All plays are performed to an invited audience which includes prisoners’ friends and family members and members of the general public who have an interest in and support this work. All work is accredited through the Open College Network via a programme written especially for theatre work. The prisoners generally achieve between 3 and 4 certificates at either level 2 or 3. Playing for Time Theatre Company can offer small or large-scale projects to prisons. We can work for intensive periods of time, for example 2-4 weeks, or for 8-weeks for larger scale projects. |
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Prison Radio Association |
| The PRA is an award winning education charity that provides support, guidance and expertise to existing prison radio stations and advises prisons interested in setting up radio stations and radio training facilities. |
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Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation) |
| Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation) was established in 1999 in order to develop innovative, arts-based approaches to working with prisoners and staff within U.K. prisons. We've retained a special emphasis on working in the Midlands where the company is based. The prisons where we've worked most extensively are HMP & YOI Swinfen Hall and HMP Dovegate, both of which have hosted a number of programmes. |
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Safeground - using drama to educate prisoners and young people at risk in the community |
| Safe Ground educates prisoners and young people at risk in the community. We use drama to help these groups resist the forces of social exclusion and institutionalisation. You can’t hope to motivate students unless you take care to see the world from their perspective. Any good teacher will agree, and the principle is as true of prisoners as of children. Our two courses Family Man and Fathers Inside have now reached 25% of the male prison population. We know they work because it was the prisoners who designed them. |
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Storybook Dads |
| Storybook Dads is a registered charity based in Dartmoor Prison. Our aim is to maintain family ties and facilitate learning for prisoners and their children through the provision of story CDs. |
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Synergy Theatre |
| Established in 1999 Synergy Theatre Project works towards rehabilitation with prisoners and ex-prisoners through theatre and related activities whilst placing the wider issues surrounding imprisonment in the public arena. |
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TiPP (Theatre in Prisons and Probation) |
| TiPP work from the belief that theatre and related arts have the power to transform people's lives. We develop and implement participatory arts projects and undertake training for artists and for professionals working in the Criminal Justice System. |
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Writers in Prison Network |
| They are one of the premier arts in prison organisations in the UK working towards raising self esteem and discovering hidden talents amongst both offenders and staff. |
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