TiPP

26/01/2026

TiPP has many birthdates, but January 1996 was when we were registered as a company. We will be sharing images and sounds from our 30 years over the next few months and this is by way of a taster.

16/10/2025

🎨 Exploring Creativity and Justice
Can the arts really help young people move away from crime? This event invites you to reflect on the role creativity can play in rehabilitation and change.
You’ll hear a short talk, watch two powerful films, and take part in an interactive art workshop designed to help you see through the eyes of young people engaged in arts-based justice programmes.
This isn’t about the arts as a “soft option”. It’s about understanding their proven potential to encourage new behaviours, inspire fresh perspectives, and open doors to brighter futures.
📅 Thursday 6 November, 5-7pm
📍 Martin Harris Centre
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../not-a-soft-option-how...
Join us in exploring how creativity can support rehabilitation and positively shape young lives.
Not suitable for those under 15.

04/12/2024

A rare opportunity to apply for a role with Geese Theatre Company.

Reasons to consider applying to work for Geese Theatre Company:
1 - this is a full-time role, with a salary, company pension, and 35 days paid annual leave;
2 - we provide training;
3 - we will cover reasonable travel costs in the UK if you are invited to audition;
4 - if you are successful you will never get bored - every week has a different challenge, whether performing in a prison, training probation officers, or making a film with young people who are at risk. You will be working with one of the longest established, most well-known prison theatre companies in the world;
5 - we work across the UK and internationally - recent projects have taken us to Berlin, Sydney, Stockholm and Cape Town;
6 - we have an informal Q+A session on 18th December if you want to know more.

More details: www.tinyurl.com/GeeseJobs

24/11/2024

TiPP are the 2024 winners of the Made in Manchester Culture Award.

28/10/2024

On Wednesday 23rd October 2024 we acted as host to the most marvellous Jan Cohen-Cruz. Jan is one run the UK to talk about her new edited collection See Me: Prison Theatre Workshops and Love. Here she is in the University of Manchester's John Thaw Theatre. There are some brilliant contributors to the book from TiPP friends far and wide including Saul Hewish, John Bergman and Jess Thorpe. And the forward is by TiPP's Director, Simon Ruding. It offers a new perspective on our work in prisons and is well worth a look.

09/10/2024

09/10/2024

We are incredibly pleased to announce that for the second year on the run we are finalists in the Manchester Culture Awards. We have been shortlisted in the Made in Manchester category for our work with Manchester Youth Justice Service with some of Manchester’s most underserved and hard to reach young people.