Evaluations

Women at the HeArt Evaluation Report

Women at the HeArtwas a Thames Valley Partnership project, funded by Arts Council England,  The Monument Trust and Thames Valley Probation, building on the organisation’s experience of using the arts with vulnerable groups. Aims:

  • Creatively empower vulnerable women by offering participatory arts sessions
  • Embed good creative practice into support services ... read on →

    Author Alison Leverett-Morris (Thames Valley Partnership)

    Published February 2014

    Artforms Drama, Mixed Media, Visual Arts

    Organisation Thames Valley Partnership   Project venues Alana House Womens Centre, Crisis at the Old Fire Station, Elizabeth Fry Approved Premises

    Participant type Female Adult Vulnerable women

  • The Academy: a report on outcomes for participants

    An evaluation of the two-year experimental phase of Dance United’s Academy project, this report showed that the Academy’s dance-led education programme delivered measurable increases in their capacity to learn and imparted a range of so-called ‘soft’ skills, which can, in turn, be linked to very favourable ‘hard’ outcomes in criminal ... read on →

    Authors Andrew Miles, Paul Srauss (Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change, University of Manchester)

    Published 2008

    Artform Dance

    Organisation Dance United   Project venues Askham Grange, Bradford, Leeds, Wetherby

    Participant type Male and Female Juvenile Offenders, Female Juvenile Offenders, Male Adult Offenders, Male and Female Child School pupils

    Sample size: 64

    Time Well Spent

    Time Well Spent shares some of the key lessons learned from Music in Prisons’ programmes of music projects over six years, focusing on the stages of project delivery and the impact on participants, staff and musicians.It follows the journey of all projects from the excitement of the initial idea or ... read on →

    Author Angus McLewin (Angus McLewin Associates)

    Published 2005

    Artform Music

    Organisation The Irene Taylor Trust (Music in Prisons)   Project venues Askham Grange, Bullingdon, Bullwood Hall, Frankland, Holloway

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