The newsletter for arts organisations working in criminal justice
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In this month's issue...
- National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice news
- Events and training
- Arts and criminal justice news
- Resources & publications
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National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice news
Booking is now open for our 2016 conference
On 5th October 2016 we will be holding our annual conference in York at HMP Askham Grange. 'Arts, culture and innovation in criminal justice settings: improving outcomes in a new policy landscape' is aimed at governors, Heads of Learning and Skills, Heads of Reducing Reoffending, health and substance misuse senior prison staff, CRCs and arts and voluntary sector organisations. The conference will see the launch of a new guide looking at how to commission arts projects in criminal justice settings in response to the Coates Review and the Culture White Paper. The conference and publication will highlight the unique role of the arts in supporting rehabilitation, including how arts can support safe and secure prisons and improve outcomes for offenders across the prison estate and in the community. It will provide evidence and best practice case studies to inspire governors and commissioners in a new autonomous environment. The event will include contributions from the Ministry of Justice and Arts Council England as well as leading arts organisations, universities and prison governors. The cost of the event is £60 per person. Click here for more information and to book.
Help us to map the training opportunities and gaps in the arts and criminal justice sector
There is still time to complete the National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice's (NAACJ) survey exploring the training needs, offers and expertise of people working across arts in criminal justice. We're welcoming responses from individuals and organisations working within the arts and criminal justice sector and across other associated sectors. Your responses will be used to support the NAACJ to map current training and establish priorities across the sector. The survey takes between 5 and 15 minutes to complete, and we'd be very grateful for your thoughts and feedback. The deadline for completing the survey is 20th August. Click here to take the survey.
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Our next newsletter will be sent on Thursday 25th August. Please email kate.davey@clinks.org with anything you would like included by Tuesday 16th August.
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Events and training
Rediscovering the Radical - international theatre conference
1st - 3rd September 2016 | Liverpool | £80 - £165
Tickets are on sale for Rediscovering the Radical; an exciting international conference exploring how theatre can contribute to radical social and political change in the 21st century. Developed and hosted by Collective Encounters and the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts in conjunction with Unity Theatre, this event offers an opportunity for artists, activists, academics, change-makers, researchers and arts managers from around the world to share their thinking and practice, learn from each other, and develop new ideas around Theatre for Social Change. Key note speakers include Professor John Holloway, University of Puebla, Mexico, and Jan Cohen-Cruz, Syracuse University. Click here for more information.
Prisoner Learning Alliance Conference and Awards 2016
16th September 2016 | Cardiff, Wales | Free
This year's Prisoner Learning Alliance (PLA) conference explores the changing policy environment through a range of speakers including a governor of one of the new reform prisons. Delegates will have the chance to discuss the challenges and opportunities these policy changes may bring. There will be a focus on sharing good practice on personalised and peer-enabled approaches. The annual award ceremony will celebrate the achievements of teachers, officers and peer mentors, and there will be a chance to hear from former learners and other experts on how we should be measuring the wide-ranging impact of prison education and how the PLA's new 'Theory of Change' evaluation framework can help. Click here for more information.
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Arts and criminal justice news
New justice and culture secretaries
Elizabeth Truss has replaced Michael Gove as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister. The Secretary of State has oversight of all Ministry of Justice business and is responsible for making improvements to the criminal justice and prison system so that it better serves the public. In addition to this, Karen Bradley has been appointed as the new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Click here for more information on the new ministerial appointments.
The Guide to New Trusts 2016/17
The Directory of Social Change's annual guide tracks new grant-makers and shares their details in an easy-to-digest format. It includes 100 new funders, registered with the Charity Commission or the Scottish Charity Regulator, whose giving criteria are general enough to be relevant to the greatest number of charities. The guide includes up to date and essential information, including details of what grant making charities do and don't fund. Click here for more information.
Changes to Arts Council England's investment approach
After consulting the sector about how they should invest in art and culture, Arts Council England have made some changes to their investment approach for 2018-2022. These changes will mean that for the first time, museums and libraries will be part of their investment portfolio. In addition, funding agreements from ACE's National Portfolio Organisations will be lengthened from three to four years; the National Portfolio will be made up of three bands; and a new category of Sector Support Organisations will be introduced. For more information on these changes, please click here.
Born Ready magazine
Terry Eckersley's comic, Born Ready, hopes to use the messages of Christ to transform the lives of those in prison. The magazine is useful for outreach and events, and for those with literacy issues. Terry also gives talks at services and special groups and events. He has visited Chaplaincies in various prisons, including HMP Whitemoor: "Terry visited our prison for Sunday Worship recently and was excellent. He has a real ability to connect with men and with prisoners in particular. As an ex-offender he understands their issues, problems, temptations and battles." Click here to buy the magazine.
Prison education: what is it for?
What is prison education for? This is the question the members of the Prisoner Learning Alliance (PLA) have been asking since its formation in 2013. Education contractors used output focused measures of success, such as number of hours teaching and numbers of accreditations. But the PLA felt these measures were missing something - that they led to a tick box culture that met the targets, but missed the point. The PLA have developed a new Theory of Change incorporating five different strands: wellbeing; human capital; social capital; knowledge, skills and employability and culture. The PLA hope governors and education providers use these ideas to formulate a holistic vision, strategy and delivery model for education across the whole of their prison to make the most of its wide ranging benefits for individual prisoners, as well as creating a culture of learning in their establishments. Click here for more information.
The best road to a different future
In this month's Arts Professional David Bryan considers whether progress has been made with regards to diversity in the arts. He says "Culturally diverse artists are producing work of quality but they are not getting the opportunity to do so often enough. Too many are trapped in the 'white gaze,' doing versions of English classics, such as Shakespeare." He goes on to say "Our parameters for improvement need to be clear. Are we to gauge improvement by the increase in the number of black actors doing Shakespeare or a talking part in someone else's drama?" Bryan concludes that there are five possible solutions: creating a Diverse Centre of Excellence in each region; creating talent studios within each region to experiment, test and discover; insisting that every city bidding to be a City of Culture or Northern Powerhouse initiative genuinely indicates how its diverse community are included as contributors as well as beneficiaries, seeking to develop quality partnerships; and investing in the existing black expertise. Click here to read the full article.
Free legal support and advice for Clinks members
Clinks has partnered with Russell Cooke Solicitors to offer its members free legal support. The aim is to support smaller, local, voluntary sector organisations working in the Criminal Justice System, with an income of less than £3 million per year, to access legal support that is often too expensive. Clinks will cover the full cost of small quantities of legal support which will be provided by Russell Cooke Solicitors, on governance issues such as: contracting; collaboration agreements; reviewing governing documents; legal structures; intellectual property and data protection. This is a rolling programme, which will be available until all the allocated funding has been spent. For full information please click here.
Branding and marketing opportunity for artists with experience of the Criminal Justice System
Tap Social Movement is a start-up craft brewery, established to provide training and employment opportunities to people who have had contact with the Criminal Justice System. In addition to offering work experience, training and long term employment opportunities in their own brewery, they are working with other breweries to identify openings and make successful matches UK-wide in this growing industry. They are currently looking for artists with experience of the Criminal Justice System to help with their branding and marketing, including the possibility of featuring entire pieces of work on their products. If you or someone you know is interested, please email tapsocialmovement@gmail.com by 1st September 2016.
The Koestler Trust has a new online shop
In response to public demands, and with the support of the Triangle Trust, the Koestler Trust now has its own online shop. You can buy original art from the Koestler Collection, as well as books and merchandise. All the money spent in the shop will go towards supporting their aims, running the Koestler Awards and raising public awareness of prisoners' creativity as part of their rehabilitative journey. Click here to visit the online shop.
All Party Parliamentary Group Arts, Health and Wellbeing Inquiry
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Arts, Health and Wellbeing is collaborating with King's College London on an Inquiry into Arts, Health and Wellbeing. The purpose of the Inquiry is to develop policy recommendations and inform a vision for political leadership in the field of arts, health and wellbeing. The Inquiry will be informed by a series of roundtables at which practitioners, academics and people with lived experience come together to share perspectives on the benefits of the arts for health and wellbeing, and the challenges faced in making more good practice happen. The Inquiry is currently seeking examples of the arts and culture influencing health and wellbeing outcomes. The deadline for submissions is 19th August 2016. Click here for more information on how to contribute.
Creative Future's Tight Modern is now open for entries
Tight Modern is the world's smallest temporary pop-up gallery. It's an 8ft x 5ft miniature replica of the iconic Tate Modern, showcasing the UK's best marginalised artists. Submissions are now open for the 2016-17 tour of Tight Modern. Creative Future are looking for original artworks, photographs or computer generated images from marginalised and disabled artists in the UK. To fit the Tight Modern gallery, work submitted must be 13 cm x 18 cm in a portrait format with a maximum depth of 2 cm. There is a submission fee of £5 per artwork. Creative Future is an award winning Brighton-based charity that provides training, mentoring and showcasing opportunities for talented writers and artists who lack opportunities due to mental health issues, disability, identity, health or social circumstances. The deadline for submissions is 30th October 2016. Click here for more information.
Music in Detention is looking for an individual giving fundraiser
Music in Detention is looking for an individual with strong fundraising skills and experience to develop their individual giving base. Historically most of their income has come from grants, but over the past two years they have been raising funds from individual donors. They are looking for an experienced fundraiser who can build strong and productive relationships with donors, make rapid progress, work closely with colleagues, improve relevant systems and contribute to strategic development. The budget for this work is £7,000 and they are willing to consider a freelance or employment contract. The deadline for proposals is 1pm, Wednesday 3rd August 2016. Click here for more information.
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Resources & publications
Probation directory
The Ministry of Justice has released a new probation directory of National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Companies. The directory includes addresses and contact details. Click here to download the directory.
64 Million Artists
64 Million Artists is a national campaign to use creativity to unlock the potential of everyone in the UK. They use a simple, fun and free process called Do, Think and Share to support people who'd like to use creativity to express themselves and better connect with others. They passionately believe that everyone has the right to a creative life, that we are all instinctively creative but that it often gets knocked out of us at school or work. They work in a number of areas: with the arts and cultural sector; with employers; with towns and cities; and with people affected by stress, depression or other wellbeing issues. Click here to find out more about the project and what it has to offer.
Valuing volunteers in prison
This Clinks project, commissioned at the request of Andrew Selous MP, explores how to increase the amount and scope of prison volunteering across England and Wales. One of the National Offender Management Service's key priorities is supporting the use of volunteers in prisons. As a result of the project, Clinks has published two reports and 14 case studies that are intended to inform individuals and organisations involved with, or interested in, enhancing volunteering in prisons. The report explores the benefits of volunteering in prisons, current examples of good practice, the key supports and barriers to effective volunteer involvement, and actions to support more effective volunteering. Click here to find out more.
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This newsletter is written monthly by Kate Davey.
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