“This is the best therapy available”: Mental Health Awareness Week
Mental Health Awareness Week is a good reason to celebrate the impact the work we do has on improving people’s mental health. The people we work with are some of most [...]
Music in Prisons
Back in the Windy City working with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Artistic Director Sara and experienced Project Leader Rex are back on the other side of the pond for our eighth commission from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Negaunee [...]
Postcards from our 6th & 7th projects with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Following five successful projects in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, we have been invited back to the Windy City for a sixth and seventh project with the Chicago [...]
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Thursday March 8th 2018 is International Women’s Day, so to celebrate we’re looking back over some of the work we’ve done with women over the years. In Prison Since [...]
Lullaby Project UK pilot research report
In summer 2017 the Irene Taylor Trust piloted Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute’s Lullaby Project for the first time in the UK. We partnered with the Royal [...]
Annual Report 2016-17 online
Our annual report for 2016/17 is available to read online now here. During the year, we marked our 21st Anniversary with a series of special projects and events, including [...]
Sara’s recent international conferences
Last November, our Artistic Director Sara Lee was busy attending two conferences across Europe (in Vienna and Glasgow) to share her knowledge and experience of arts education [...]
Music in Prisons on ‘The Rock’
Throughout May and June 2017, music written by the Music in Prisons team will be on display at ‘Art Escape at Alcatraz‘, a pictorial and historical tribute to [...]
Annual report 2015/16
Our annual report for 2015/16 is now available to read on-line here. The report includes details of our finances for 2015/16, reports from Sara Lee, our Artistic Director, [...]
Mental Health Awareness Week 2017
Figures released this Monday by the Prison Reform Trust to mark the start of Mental Health Awareness Week (8–14 May) reveal that prisoners in the UK are far more likely [...]
