Projects

The TBPC has created links with many establishments, developing new work specifically designed to meet the needs of our beneficiaries.

Each of our projects result in a final performance, and our long-term projects provide the opportunity for participants to develop their own ideas and devise a performance from scratch. This is often a driving force for the participants as it is the coming together of all they have learnt. At the end of each project, the charity produces an evaluation report to highlight the successes and failures, in particular, in terms of cognitive and behavioral outcomes, which are impossible to measure statistically.

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HMP Channings Wood

Projects on the Therapeutic Community look at issues of addiction, families, support networks and release. This client group face disadvantage often due to their backgrounds and lack of education. Their drug use and criminal activity has led to an exclusion from society and prevents them from playing a useful part in the community. Throughout the work the group support and encourage each other, increasing self-confidence, motivation and commitment. Our radio play projects on the main prison wings reflect the cultural identity of prisoners. Prison life, by nature, strips inmates of the opportunity to make choices and maintain control over their lives and, as a result, they lose any sense of individual identity. The arts offer an ideal conduit in which to make creative decisions and to explore the notion of ‘self’ in different contexts.

HMP Dartmoor

HMP Exeter

Offenders in the community