Organisations
Arts Organisations (40)
Artlink Central
Artlink Central is a leading arts agency and charity in Central Scotland, developing artist led creative programmes for those who face barriers to participation due to mental health issues, disability or other social barriers. They use music, literature, storytelling, visual and performing arts to remove barriers that create or sustain ... read on →
Evaluations: 1 Category: Arts Organisation
Arts Accesss (Australia)
Arts Access Australia (AAA) is the peak national body for arts and disability - they work to increase opportunities and access for people with disability as artists, arts-workers, participants and audiences. read on →
Evaluations: 1 Category: Arts Organisation
Arts Alliance
The Arts Alliance is a coalition of arts organisations working in the criminal justice system. Its purpose is to improve communication and broker relationships between artists and organisations working with the criminal justice sector, offenders and ex-offenders, prison and probation staff, and relevant government departments. The Arts Alliance provides practitioners ... read on →
Evaluations: 3 Category: Arts Organisation
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, ... read on →
Evaluations: 2 Category: Arts Organisation
Clean Break
Clean Break is a theatre company with an independent education programme. Both strands of our work are rooted in the belief that theatre changes lives. read on →
Evaluations: 6 Category: Arts Organisation
Dance United
Dance Unites works with those who are marginalised in society and whose potential is often unrecognised or unfulfilled. Contemporary dance training and performance of the highest quality has the power to unlock this potential. Dance United delivers work that is tough, tightly-focused and highly disciplined. read on →
Evaluations: 1 Category: Arts Organisation
Fine Cell Work
Fine Cell Work is a social enterprise set up 14 years ago to enable prisoners to practice a professional craft skill and earn and save money from it. Fine Cell Work trains prisoners in paid, skilled, creative needlework undertaken in the long hours spent in their cells to foster hope, ... read on →
Evaluations: 1 Category: Arts Organisation
Geese Theatre
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 ... read on →
Evaluations: 4 Category: Arts Organisation
Good Vibrations
Good Vibrations is a registered charity that helps prisoners, patients in secure hospitals, ex-prisoners and others in the community to develop crucial life and work skills through participating in intensive Gamelan (Indonesian bronze percussion) courses. Since 2003 Good Vibrations has worked with more than 3000 participants in 40 different secure ... read on →
Evaluations: 9 Category: Arts Organisation
Koestler Trust
The Koestler Trust is a prison arts charity - its aims are:To help offenders, secure patients and detainees lead more positive lives by motivating them to participate and achieve in the arts.To increase public awareness and understanding of arts by offenders, secure patients & detainees.To be a dynamic, responsive organisation ... read on →
Evaluations: 2 Category: Arts Organisation
Motionhouse Dance
Motionhouse is one of the UK's foremost dance theatre companies, touring highly acclaimed and award winning productions to theatres and festivals throughout the world. Rooted in dance, our dynamic productions draw on theatre, circus, acrobatics and film. We're also renowned for our ambitious experimentation with the performance environment and for ... read on →
Evaluations: 2 Category: Arts Organisation
Music in Detention (MID)
Music In Detention (MID) works through music to give voice to immigration detainees and create channels of communication between them, immigration and detention staff, local communities and the wider public. MID was formed by a group of organisations and individuals inspired by a pilot programme in 2005 that took participatory ... read on →
Evaluations: 4 Category: Arts Organisation
National Youth Theatre (NYT)
National Youth Theatre (NYT) inspires, trains, and showcases exceptional performers and theatre technicians aged 14-21 from Great Britain and Northern Ireland. read on →
Evaluations: 2 Category: Arts Organisation
Only Connect
Only Connect has one vision but many missions. The group vision is:“We see prisoners, ex-offenders and young people at risk of crime becoming assets, not liabilities for London: using their talents to help both themselves and the community. Instead of costing society – financially and emotionally – by committing crime, ... read on →
Evaluations: 1 Category: Arts Organisation
Peoples Palace Projects
People’s Palace Projects (PPP) is an independent arts charity that advances the practice and understanding of art for social justice and is based at Queen Mary, University of London. People’s Palace Projects produces performances, installations, workshops, seminars and publications. These projects reach diverse communities of participants and audiences and provide ... read on →
Evaluations: 1 Category: Arts Organisation
Prison Arts Coalition
Established in 2008, the Prison Arts Coalition (PAC) is a national network for information and resources about existing prison arts programs in the United States. As a coalition, we represent a consortium of artists and arts organizations active and working in the field of arts and prisons, committed to building ... read on →
Category: Arts Organisation
Prison Radio Association (PRA)
The Prison Radio Association (PRA) was established as a charity in 2006 in response to a growing demand from prisons to engage in prison radio and aims to change the lives of serving prisoners through the power of radio. The PRA also provides support, guidance and expertise to existing prison ... read on →
Evaluations: 3 Category: Arts Organisation
Rideout
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. They have retained a special emphasis on working in the Midlands where the company is based. The prisons where Rideout has worked most extensively are ... read on →
Evaluations: 3 Category: Arts Organisation
Royal College of Music (RCM)
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Art including performance, composition, conducting, music theory and history. The RCM also undertakes research, with particular strengths in performance practice and performance science. The college ... read on →
Category: Arts Organisation
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO)
For more than seven decades the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) has been at the forefront of music-making in the UK. Its home base since 2004 at London’s Cadogan Hall serves as a springboard for seven principal residencies as well as more than forty-five concerts per year in long-term partnership venues ... read on →
Evaluations: 1 Category: Arts Organisation
Safe Ground
Safe Ground works to reduce the risk of offending and re-offending based on a continually developing understanding of the origins and impact of crime and a commitment to empowering people to change. Two flagship courses – Family Man and Fathers Inside– address the complex needs of male offenders. Safe Ground ... read on →
Evaluations: 9 Category: Arts Organisation
Soft Touch Arts
Soft Touch Arts, based in Leicester, is a participatory arts and community development organisation which aims to make a difference to people’s lives through personal development and gaining new skills. In 2011 Soft Touch celebrated its 25th anniversary, having run hundreds of creative projects with thousands of people in Leicester ... read on →
Evaluations: 1 Category: Arts Organisation
Storybook Dads
Storybook Dads helps imprisoned parents throughout the UK to maintain meaningful contact with their children, thereby reducing re-offending and improving outcomes for parent and child. read on →
Category: Arts Organisation
Superact
Superact is a not-for-profit arts organisation using creativity to improve the health and wellbeing of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and abilities. We use artists and musicians, both amateur & professional, to deliver highly successful projects in the healthcare, education and criminal justice systems. read on →
Evaluations: 3 Category: Arts Organisation
Synergy Theatre
Established in 1999 Synergy Theatre Project works towards rehabilitation with prisoners, ex-prisoners and young people at risk through theatre and related activities whilst placing the wider issues surrounding criminal justice in the public arena. read on →
Evaluations: 2 Category: Arts Organisation
Thames Valley Partnership
Thames Valley Partnership works in partnership with the statutory, private and voluntary sectors to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the problems of crime and social exclusion. read on →
Evaluations: 3 Category: Arts Organisation
The Irene Taylor Trust (Music in Prisons) (MiP)
Music in Prisons specialises in the delivery of week-long creative music projects working with men, women and young people in prisons across England and Wales. Project leaders are skilled, professional musicians, experienced in encouraging participation and supporting disadvantaged and vulnerable people through music in both prison and community settings. read on →
Evaluations: 4 Category: Arts Organisation
Tipp
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. read on →
Evaluations: 2 Category: Arts Organisation
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
In 2005, Trinity College of Music and Laban, leading centres of music and contemporary dance, came together to form Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the UK's first ever conservatoire of music and dance. Our innovative course provision, exciting performances and groundbreaking education, community and social inclusion work make ... read on →
Category: Arts Organisation
Writers in Prison Network
The Writers in Prison Network puts writers and creative artists into prisons to deliver creative writing, drama, video, music, oral storytelling, journalism, creative reading and publishing programmes. We aim to work with all levels of ability, from below level one literacy to beyond PhD, inspiring and engaging all members of ... read on →
Evaluations: 3 Category: Arts Organisation
Youth Music
Youth Music is the leading UK charity using music to transform the lives of disadvantaged children and young people. We support and develop exemplary music provision at every stage of a young person’s development. read on →
Evaluations: 2 Category: Arts Organisation
