Creative Community Resettlement

CCR wants to challenge the misconception that people who have experienced adversity, trauma and incarceration are ‘other’.

CCR does not think that people who have served custodial orders are the same as people who have been sectioned under the mental health act or the same as people seeking asylum, but it recognises that individuals with any of the previous lived experience are likely to have faced multiple barriers and trauma and require a needs-based, flexible, person-centred, trauma informed and safe approach to working with them.

CCR adopts high quality theatre, arts-practice and arts practitioners, that is also underpinned by therapeutic, trauma-informed, restorative, strengths based and non-violent communication approaches.

CCR is community-led, meaning that the design and practicality of the programme respond to the needs of the people and the communities we work with.

CCR is testing new ways of working and not conforming to the status quo in how people who face experience racism, inequalities, disadvantage and discrimination engage with theatre, arts and culture.