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The Prison Choir Project - £500 donation from the Ten Percent Foundation

  The Prison Choir Project - Ten Percent Foundation Award - £500 The Ten Percent Foundation trustees have made their first round of awards for 2022 and will be providing an outline of each charity we have donated to every month for the next 12 months. The first of these is the Prison Choir Project. The Prison Choir Project is a charity with the objectives to rehabilitate prisoners, ex-offenders and people experiencing mental disorder by the advance of the arts and culture, in particular through the performance of opera, song, and choral music. The charity hopes to provide a pathway towards establishing a reduction in reoffending, building self-esteem, improving self-confidence and employability skills for all those involved. The charity has an outstanding track-record - they have run eight major projects in four prisons (HMP Dartmoor, HMP Drake Hall, HMP Kirkham, HMP Wandsworth) including fully-staged performances of Carmen, West Side Story and Guys and Dolls; fea...