Evaluations

Women at the HeArt Evaluation Report

Women at the HeArtwas a Thames Valley Partnership project, funded by Arts Council England,  The Monument Trust and Thames Valley Probation, building on the organisation’s experience of using the arts with vulnerable groups. Aims:

  • Creatively empower vulnerable women by offering participatory arts sessions
  • Embed good creative practice into support services ... read on →

    Author Alison Leverett-Morris (Thames Valley Partnership)

    Published February 2014

    Artforms Drama, Mixed Media, Visual Arts

    Organisation Thames Valley Partnership   Project venues Alana House Womens Centre, Crisis at the Old Fire Station, Elizabeth Fry Approved Premises

    Participant type Female Adult Vulnerable women

  • Summer Arts Colleges 2011: Final Outcomes Report

    An independent evaluation of the fifth consecutive year of the Summer Arts College programme (2011)  has shown that the programme continued to meet its objectives of reducing offending, increasing educational engagement and improving basic skills through the arts for young people at risk of (re-)offending. Comparisons across the five years ... read on →

    Author Maree Adams (Unitas)

    Published March 2012

    Artform Multi-Arts

    Organisation Arts Council England

    Participant type Male and Female Juvenile Offenders

    Sample size: 412

    Summer Arts College: Outcomes Report 2007-11

    This outcomes report and accompanying digest is part of a series of publications summarising the outcomes of the four years of Summer Arts Colleges run between 2007-11. The evaluation has shown that the programme consistently meets its objectives of reducing offending, increasing educational engagement, improving basic skills,achieving a qualification and ... read on →

    Authors Greg Brooks, Roger Tarling (Unitas)

    Published 2011

    Artform Multi-Arts

    Organisation Arts Council England

    Participant type Male and Female Juvenile Offenders, Male and Female Young Offenders

    Summer Arts Colleges 2008: Outcomes Report

    An independent report on the 2008 Summer Arts Colleges intitiative focusing on reducing re-offending, increasing educational engagement, improving literacy and numeracy skills and ETE progression routes. read on →

    Author Maree Adams (Unitas)

    Published

    Artform Multi-Arts

    Participant type Male and Female Juvenile Offenders

    Sample size: 277

    Summer Arts Colleges: Evaluation Report 2007

    An independent report on the 2007 Summer Arts Colleges intitiative focusing on reducing re-offeding, increasing educational engagement, improving literacy and numeracy skills and ETE progression routes. The findings show positive impacts for the young people in each of the key outcome areas of engagement in ETE, offending behaviour and engagement ... read on →

    Published November 2008

    Artform Multi-Arts

    Participant type Male and Female Juvenile Offenders

    Sample size: 156

    The Academy: a report on outcomes for participants

    An evaluation of the two-year experimental phase of Dance United’s Academy project, this report showed that the Academy’s dance-led education programme delivered measurable increases in their capacity to learn and imparted a range of so-called ‘soft’ skills, which can, in turn, be linked to very favourable ‘hard’ outcomes in criminal ... read on →

    Authors Andrew Miles, Paul Srauss (Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change, University of Manchester)

    Published 2008

    Artform Dance

    Organisation Dance United   Project venues Askham Grange, Bradford, Leeds, Wetherby

    Participant type Male and Female Juvenile Offenders, Female Juvenile Offenders, Male Adult Offenders, Male and Female Child School pupils

    Sample size: 64

    Summer Arts Colleges 2006: Evaluation Report

    An indendepent evaluation of the seven  Summer Arts Colleges programmes run in 2006, focusing on the effectivenss of an arts-based structured prorgamme, progression routes to ETE and reducing re-offending in the 2 months following the programme. The main findings of the Summer Arts College evaluation are largely positive. For most ... read on →

    Published November 2007

    Artform Multi-Arts

    Participant type Male and Female Young Offenders

    Sample size: 76

    Time Well Spent

    Time Well Spent shares some of the key lessons learned from Music in Prisons’ programmes of music projects over six years, focusing on the stages of project delivery and the impact on participants, staff and musicians.It follows the journey of all projects from the excitement of the initial idea or ... read on →

    Author Angus McLewin (Angus McLewin Associates)

    Published 2005

    Artform Music

    Organisation The Irene Taylor Trust (Music in Prisons)   Project venues Askham Grange, Bullingdon, Bullwood Hall, Frankland, Holloway

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