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Our Purpose

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Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation) was established in 1999 in order to develop innovative, arts-based approaches to working with prisoners and staff within U.K. prisons. We’ve retained a special emphasis on working in the Midlands where the company is based. The prisons where we’ve worked most extensively are HMPYOI Swinfen Hall, HMP Birmingham and HMP Dovegate, each of which have hosted a number of programmes. This prison-bound work has additionally extended to encompass national issues of prison and criminal justice reform.

Since 2014 our portfolio has diversified to also include work with non-offending populations, especially autistic adults and/or adults with mild learning disabilities who live in the North Staffordshire region.

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Current Projects

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2023-04-14T12:44:36+00:00

The Atlas to Recovery

Atlas to Recovery is a participatory arts project facilitated by B arts and Rideout during January, February and March 2023. Five lead artists were paired [...]

2022-04-06T08:42:39+00:00

Roundabout Tales

In Summer 2021, Rideout was commissioned to consult with serving prisoners to facilitate a contribution to the VOICES Transitions Prison Release Project. This involved the [...]

2022-01-09T15:25:06+00:00

Sounding Out

Sounding Out is a collaborative research project commissioned by Dr Sarah Bartley at University of Reading, and delivered in partnership with the Prison Reform Trust [...]

2021-04-30T08:44:33+00:00

28 Days

It has long been understood that prisoners who maintain good relationships with their family members while in prison are likely to have lower recidivism [...]

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Ghost Songs of the Conscientious Objectors (2019). Script and score for a ‘secular service’, created at HMP Stafford as part of Staging Time.
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Hard Labour – A New Biomechanic Etude (2019). Pamphlet setting out the physical movements for a new etude based on the motions experienced by Victorian prisoners undergoing hard labour, created at HMP Stafford as part of Staging Time.
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Past Time: Exploring the history of prison food (2018). Documentation of our project at HMP Hewell in Spring and Summer 2018.
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Past Time: An Evaluation by Natalie Quinn-Walker BSc (Hons), MPH, FRSPH, Institute for Community Research and Development, University of Wolverhampton (2018)
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Go to Jail: An evaluation by Dr Geoff Readman (2016)
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