rock up
Our Youth Justice focused music programme.
Rock Up works with youth justice services across the northwest, offering high quality and creative music making activities. It is a responsive and flexible programme that meets the needs and interests of the young people, supporting them in their own personal journeys and inspires them to access mainstream and creative provision opportunities.
Since 2016 the project has provided meaningful, engaging and above all fun activities through a varied programme including intensive weeks of creative activities during school holidays. From 2020 we have delivered weekly sessions, embedding music within the core offer of the Manchester Youth Justice Service.
As part of the Rock Up program TiPP is supporting Manchester Youth Justice’s ambition to become an arts based service.
A major element of the programme is to enable young people to gain Bronze Arts Awards, nationally recognised qualifications. For many of the young people this is the first qualification they have gained and a number of them have gone to gain Silver Arts Awards.
Our commitment to developing the workforce extends beyond our current artistic staff. Our innovative training sessions for youth justice staff have proved to be not only incredibly enjoyable but invaluable in garnering the commitment of the youth justice staff who advocate for the project to the young people. Our partnership with the Philip Barker Centre for Creative Education sees us developing ways of using our experience and expertise to support their first-year students in bonding and settling into their course whilst also demonstrating to them the diverse applications of the arts.
The first two years the project was subject to a creative evaluation by Ros Hawley. You can download her report below, and one of the compositions by participating musicians features in the Rock Up video above.