Anne Peaker Centre

The following announcement was posted on the Anne Peaker website in early 2010:

The Anne Peaker website has now been closed down and the work of the Anne Peaker Centre was transferred in full to the management of the Arts Alliance on April 1st, 2010. The funding for the Anne Peaker Centre, to develop the role of the arts in the criminal justice sector, was also transferred to the Arts Alliance on April 1st, 2010.

Background

Anne Peaker and Jill Vincent established the Unit for the Arts and Offenders in 1992 as part of the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University. The Unit for the Arts and Offenders was established as a registered charity and limited liability company incorporated on 21st October 1996. The organisation re-branded to reflect its remit as a national umbrella body, and was renamed Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice to honour its founder, who sadly died in 2000. Anne Peaker's pioneering work continues to inspire us and she left a legacy which forms the basis of the work of the Arts Alliance today.

In memory of Anne Peaker the Arts Alliance will host the inaugural Anne Peaker Debate opened by Geoffrey Peaker and chaired by Jude Kelly OBE, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre this September as part of the Arts Alliance National Conference.

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