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Arts Alliance Annual Meeting The Wales Millennium Centre 14 th March 2014

Arts Alliance Annual Meeting The Wales Millennium Centre 14 th March 2014. Arts Alliance annual meeting The Wales Millennium Centre 14 th March 2014. About us. The Chair of the Arts Alliance is Tim Robertson the CEO Koestler Trust

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Arts Alliance Annual Meeting The Wales Millennium Centre 14 th March 2014

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  1. Arts Alliance Annual Meeting The Wales Millennium Centre 14th March 2014

  2. Arts Alliance annual meeting The Wales Millennium Centre 14th March 2014

  3. 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

  4. Which arts forms?

  5. New members Helix Arts Open Cinema Old Fire Station The V&A Odd Theatre Ribcaged Productions Finding Rhythms Media for Development Artichoke Arts And many more……………

  6. 2012/13 membership 370 members +36% 1000 newsletter subscribers

  7. 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 practicethrough our events and networks

  8. Arts Alliance achievements 2012/13

  9. New Arts Alliance website

  10. Web-stats • Visits1,060 • Unique Visitors:641 • Page Views: 3,626

  11. The Evidence Library

  12. 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)

  13. What our members say about us…..

  14. 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

  15. What have our members been up to?

  16. “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

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

  18. 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)

  19. What’s next for the Arts Alliance?

  20. ‘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

  21. You’re Getting Transferred, Anon, HM Prison Shotts Courtesy of the Koestler Trust

  22. 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

  23. Contact details

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