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Welcome to Good Vibrations
Good Vibrations is a registered charity (number 1126493) that helps prisoners, secure hospital patients, ex-prisoners and others in the community develop crucial life and work skills, through participating in intensive gamelan (Indonesian bronze percussion) courses. Since 2003, Good Vibrations has worked with more than 2400 individuals in 33 different secure institutions...
Recent pictures and music
We've got together some pictures and music from our most recent "Working It Out" project, run in December. About twice a year, we run one week "gamelan challenges" at the Southbank Centre for young people doing an employability skills course called "Working It Out"...
Article in Inside Time
Nice article in recent "inside Time" including interviews with two Good Vibrations participants....
A Good Vibrations word cloud....
A word cloud created out of a large sample of Good Vibrations participants' feedback from 2010 and 2011... ...
Chief Inspector of Prisons speech focusing on central role of education in prisons, using Good Vibrations as good example
Nick Hardwick, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons (and former trustee of Good VIbrations) gave the Prison Education Trust Annual Speech on 18 October. His wide-ranging speech included looking at his experiences in the role, describing what has most shocked and surprised him in his first...
This page last updated Jan 30th 2012.
