Arts Alliance Annual Meeting

The Wales Millennium Centre14th March 2014

Arts Alliance annual meetingThe Wales Millennium Centre

14th March 2014

About us• The Chair of the Arts Alliance is Tim

Robertson the CEO Koestler Trust• Steering group members include: Clean

Break, Rideout, Music in Prisons, Writers in Prisons Network, Geese Theatre, Good Vibrations, TIPP, plus independent members from: De Montfort University, Highpoint, Deerbolt and Helix Arts

• The Arts Alliance is managed Clinks

Voluntary Sector (including Charities, social enterprises and community groups)

Public (including prisons, NHS and Education)

Individuals (Including artits, free-lancers and interested parties)

Private (including private prisons and art based companies)

Unkown

Which arts forms?

New membersHelix ArtsOpen CinemaOld Fire StationThe V&AOdd TheatreRibcaged ProductionsFinding RhythmsMedia for DevelopmentArtichoke ArtsAnd many more……………

2012/13 membership+36%

370 members 1000

newsletter subscribers

What the Arts Alliance do

• Research and evidence - making the case for arts in criminal justice

• Raising the profile of our members through marketing and PR

• Influencing policy makers• Develop and share good practice

through our events and networks

Arts Alliance achievements 2012/13

• New Arts Alliance website

Web-stats• Visits 1,060• Unique Visitors: 641• Page Views: 3,626

The Evidence Library

Events• ESRC Seminar series (2nd one happening

19th April at the V&A)• Southbank Event – celebrating performance• Anne Peaker lecture • Peer learning sessions x3 (Clean Break, MIP

and Koestler)• Annual meeting and national conference on

14th March at the Millennium Centre (Wales)

• What our members say about us…..

Policy work• 3 X Arts Forums (representatives from MoJ, BIS,

DCMS, NOMS, YJB, DH, Arts Council England)• 2x OLASS 4 Forum for HoLSE • Recently being invited to sit on the Prisoner

Learning Alliance (PET)• Continuing to collect evidence re OLASS 4• Continuing trying to make the case at local and

national level• Responded to the recent Transforming

Rehabilitation consultation

• What have our members been up to?

“I am much calmer in myself now – it has

helped me stay out of trouble – I’m not getting worked up and am more positive in my thinking.

And I am proud of myself, which I have never been before”

Participant, Wolverhampton Probation

In 2011/12 we worked with: 16 prisons, 9 Probation Trusts, 5

Youth Offending Teams, and 4 secure hospitals, delivering

projects with over 1800 people

Photos by Brian Slater: Inbetween, choreographed by Helen Linsell and Carly Annable-Coop, featuring young people from Dance United Yorkshire

Odd Theatre

• 95% of the young people who took part completed the programme

• 95% of the young people gained a Bronze or Silver Arts Award qualification

• One young person progressed onto the Gold Arts Award. (The first recorded case of a gold award participant within the CJS)

• What’s next for the Arts Alliance?

‘Write to be heard’• The Arts Alliance is delighted to announce

that we were successful in securing a recent grant from the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to deliver the prison radio writing competition Write to be heard and further develop our arts network.

• We are extremely pleased to be working in partnership with the Prison Radio Association

You’re Getting Transferred, Anon, HM Prison ShottsCourtesy of the Koestler Trust

Direction of travel• Drawing in funding will mean offering

something different from what we do• Ideas include developing an action

research piece of work, similar to the Creative Scotland model (building on last years research work)

• We want to continue to develop a thriving network, which ultimately enables more offenders access to the arts

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