What we do

Create - Our members produce and perform in arts projects including theatre, film and music. Art reaches the heart, engaging people who have struggled in conventional education but who have a talent for expression. Creative projects require all the disciplines of life - teamwork, working towards a goal, taking direction, inhabiting roles - in a non-formal setting with an emphasis on personal discovery. And the experience of performance itself, with the pressure, attention and triumph involved in standing vulnerable before an audience, is transformative.

Belong - The causes of crime and social breakdown are relational - a lack of the right support, in the home or in the community, when we’re growing up. OC involves our members in a positive community of people (our staff, volunteers and the members themselves), making a place of safety and hope. We host weekly social evenings, as well as theatre trips, family days and weekends away.

Impact - OC’s members are talented, charismatic and inspiring: natural leaders with great potential to influence young people. They deliver arts-based crime prevention projects in schools and youth groups across London - speaking into students’ lives with authority and conviction, and finding a value and a redemptive purpose for all their own mistakes and misdemeanours.

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