Arts with offenders

Arts Alliance
http://artsalliance.ning.com/
National body for the promotion of arts in the Criminal Justice Sector.

Changing Tunes
www.changingtunes.org.uk
Music projects in prisons and the community to aid the rehabilitation of offenders.

Clean Break Theatre Company
www.cleanbreak.org.uk
Uses theatre for personal and political change, working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.

Create
www.createarts.org.uk
Uses the arts to help transform the lives of disadvantaged people, including prisoners.

Dance United
www.dance-united.com
Changing people’s lives through contemporary dance – including prisoners and young offenders.

Escape Artists
www.escapeartists.co.uk
Drama and other workshops in prisons and other settings on the margins of society.

Fine Cell Work
www.finecellwork.co.uk
Teaches needlework to prison inmates and sells their products.  Koestler Awards namer.

Geese Theatre Company
www.geese.co.uk
Interactive drama workshops with offenders and staff in the criminal justice system.

Inspiring Change
www.motherwell.co.uk/inspiringchange
A year-long project, Inspiring Change, delivering high-quality arts interventions to 5 Scottish Prisons: HMP Barlinnie, HMP Greenock, HMP Open Estate (Castle Huntly), HMP Shotts and HMYOI Polmont.

Irene Taylor Trust
www.musicinprisons.org.uk
Music projects that enhance the education and rehabilitation of offenders. Koestler Award Namer.

Media for Development
www.mediafordevelopment.org.uk
Film and media projects in prisons and elsewhere.

Not Shut Up
www.notshutup.org
Magazine of creative writing from London prisons.

Pan Project
www.panproject.org
Pan-European networkabout arts education in prisons.

Prison Arts Foundation
www.prisonartsfoundation.com
Arts projects in prisons in Northern Ireland.

Prison Radio Association
www.prisonradioassociation.org
Supporting prison radio stations and setting up new ones.

Ride Out
www.rideout.org.uk
Creative Arts for Rehabilitation, including Creative Prison project in which prisoners designed an imaginary prison for the future.

Safe Ground
www.safeground.org.uk
Uses drama to educate and empower prisoners and young people at risk in the community.

Synergy Theatre Company
www.synergytheatreproject.co.uk
Works towards the rehabilitation with prisoners and ex-prisoners through theatre.

Writers in Prison Network
www.writersinprisonnetwork.org
Places writers in prisons to run creative workshops.  Koestler Awards namer.

Links for arts

Arts Council
www.artscouncil.org.uk
National arts development agency for England.

Arvon Foundation
www.arvonfoundation.org
Creative writing courses.           

Bloomberg Space
www.bloombergspace.com/
Principal supporter of the Koestler Exhibition in 2007 and 2008.

Institute of Contemporary Arts
www.ica.org.uk
Multi-media London arts centre.  Host of “Insider Art”, the 2007 Koestler Exhibition.

Magma
www.magmapoetry.com
Poetry magazine whose Spring 2007 edition included Koestler poems.

Paintings in Hospitals
www.paintingsinhospitals.org.uk
National charity that loans original artworks to healthcare settings.

Royal Society of Arts
www.thersa.org
Currently running a project on prison education.

Southbank Centre
www.southbankcentre.org.uk
National arts centre in London. Host of the Koestler Exhibition for the next 3 - 4 years.

Union Theatre
www.uniontheatre.biz
London Theatre which has staged Koestler Award winning plays.

Criminal justice system

Her Majesty’s Prison Service
www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk
Public sector prisons in England and Wales. Provides substantial in-kind support to Koestler Trust.

Kalyx Ltd
www.kalyxservices.com
Operator of HMPs Addiewell, Bronzefield, Forest Bank and Peterborough. Premium supporter of the Koestler Awards.

G4S Ltd
www.g4s.com
Operator of HMPs Altcourse, Parc, Rye Hill and Wolds and many other services. Premium supporter of the Koestler Awards.

Parole Board
www.paroleboard.gov.uk
Independent assessment of prisoners before release.

SERCO Group plc
www.serco.com
Operator of HMPs Ashfield, Doncaster and Lowdham Grange and many other services.  Supporter of several Koestler Awards.

National Offender Management Service
www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/
Government body that co-ordinates and commissions all criminal justice services for adults in England and Wales including grant funding of the Koestler Trust.

Northern Ireland Prison Service
www.niprisonservice.gov.uk
Commissions and operates prisons in Northern Ireland. Provides funding to the Koestler Trust.

Scottish Prisons Service
www.sps.gov.uk
Commissions and operates prisons in Scotland.

Department for Business, Universities and Skills
www.dius.gov.uk
Includes the Offender Learning and Social Inclusion Unit that commissions education and training for offenders.

National Probation Service
www.nationalprobationservice.co.uk/
For adults in England and Wales.

Probation Boards’ Association
www.probationboards.co.uk
National employers’ association for the Probation Boards of England and Wales.  Provides generous in-kind support to the Koestler Trust.

Youth Justice Board
www.yjb.gov.uk
Co-supporter of Koestler Exhibition.
Co-ordinates and commissions services for offenders aged under 18 in England and Wales.

Offender welfare and crime reduction

Action for Prisoners’ Families
www.prisonersfamilies.org.uk
Support for prisoners’ families.

CLINKS
www.clinks.org
National membership body for voluntary organisations that work with offenders and their families.

Hardman Trust
www.hardmantrust.org.uk
An annual award for an outstanding prisoners, plus information on funding for all prisoners.

Howard League for Penal Reform
www.howardleague.org
Works for humane and rational reform of the penal system. 

Inside Time
www.insidetime.org
National newspaper for prisoners.

NACRO
www.nacro.org.uk
Over 200 projects across England and Wales working with offenders to reduce crime.

New Bridge
www.newbridgefoundation.org.uk
Programmes to keep prisoners in touch with the outside world and help them rejoin it.

Prison Advice and Care Trust
www.prisonadvice.org.uk
Provides visitors’ centres and other services to support offenders and their families.

Prison Education Trust
www.prisonerseducation.org.uk
Educational opportunities to change the lives of men and women prisoners.

Prison Reform Trust - www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk
Aims to create a just, humane and effective penal system.

Prisoners Abroad
www.prisonersabroad.org.uk
Caring for Britons held overseas.  Promotes the Koestler Awards to UK prisoners abroad and administers their entries to the scheme.

SOVA
www.sova.org.uk
Projects around youth justice and offender rehabilitation.

Unlock
www.unlock.org.uk
National association of ex-offenders.

Victim Support
www.victimsupport.org.uk
For people affected by crime.

Women in Prison
www.womeninprison.org.uk
Campaigns and services for women in prison.