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Imagine If Theatre

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imagine if aims to actively improve disadvantaged people’s lives through arts-based interventions, workshops and productions. Over the last nine years we have worked predominantly with prisoners and people with convictions who have a range of disadvantages including mental health issues, homelessness, victims of abuse, low literacy levels, unemployment and low socio-economic backgrounds.

Whilst rehabilitation is important, prevention is key to tackling

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the UK prison crisis. From 2024, we will use our vast experience of working with prisoners/people with convictions to focus on engaging with and enacting progressive change in the lives of young people aged 16-25 with lived experience of the care system in Leeds: “There were 1,365 children looked after in Leeds at the end of March 2022 (a rate per ten thousand of 80)” Leeds City Council Performance report for 2022-23 – and this number is expected to rise. Although this is a new area for imagine if to work in, one in four prisoners have lived experience of the care system, which equates to 2,250 of the 9,000 prisoners we have worked with to date.

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