Organisations and institutions
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 which achieves excellent quality and value for money.
Evaluations as member organisation (2)
The Arts of Desistance: Evaluation of the Koestler Trust Arts Mentoring Programme for Former Prisoners
This report presents and discusses the findings of an evaluation of an arts-based mentoring scheme that is aimed at prolonging and enhancing desistance from crime through providing former prisoners with opportunities to continue engaging with the arts after release. The evaluation focused both on the implementation and effectiveness of the ... read on →
Arts Mentoring for Released Prisoners: An Evaluation Project - interim report
An interim report on the evaluation of the Koestler Trust's mentoring scheme. The evaluation concerns both the implementation and effectiveness of the mentoring scheme, and employs both qualitative and quantitative methods, including direct observation of mentoring sessions and hour-long, face-to-face interviews with both mentors and mentees. The implementation part of ... read on →
