Changing Tunes' 2020 Annual Report : Looking back and looking ahead

 

Firstly, we hope that this finds you safe and well.

We wanted to share our 2020 Annual Report with you - just click here to view the full document.

This report highlights the creative ways that we’ve adapted our services to support our participants and partners during the pandemic.
 
Highlights from the past twelve months include: 

• The launch of five new distanced learning packs for prisoners to work on inside their cells
• Bringing Covid-secure performances to prisons in the pandemic
• The inaugural Changing Tunes Online Concert, featuring music, spoken word and testimony from our participants 

Musicians-In-Residence perform together virtually as part of the inaugural Changing Tunes Concert Film

Futures focus ...

Our 2020 Annual Report also looks ahead, envisioning how we will support recovery and rehabilitation in the wake of Covid-19.
 
Going forward, we will build on what we’ve learnt in 2020 and respond to the new operating environment that we and our participants find ourselves in. Here are a just a few ways in which we will develop our work this year:
 

• We’ll launch new post-release hubs in Birmingham, Plymouth and South Wales
• We'll be delivering trauma-informed music work to support prisoner’s mental health
• We’ll be supporting the development of employment skills, through vocational music training
• We’ll launch Red Tangent Records, which will support talented musicians who have  been in prison, helping them to build sustainable careers in a changing and challenging music industry
• We’ll develop our music learning work with young people in the criminal justice system, nurturing and celebrating Young Voices
• We’ll pursue our commitment to becoming an anti-racist organisation, building a culture of diversity and inclusion at Changing Tunes, which will also be reflected in the diversity of our musical offer

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support throughout these challenging times.
 
If you would like to donate to our work, please click here

Every donation makes a real difference to the people we work with, people who’ve been hit hard by the impacts of the pandemic. If you are already a donor to Changing Tunes, thank you for your generosity.
 
We look forward to updating you as we move forwards together.