Anne Peaker Centre is the national umbrella association that promotes and supports the use of arts in criminal justice and social inclusion.

Our mission is to create an enabling social and political environment for arts to be embodied in the criminal justice system.
Our vision is to enable the arts to be recognized as a means of reducing re-offending and therefore contributing to a safer, cohesive and inclusive society.

Our aim is to improve communication and broker relationships between artists and organisations working with the criminal justice sector, offenders and ex-offenders, prison and probation staff, and relevant government personnel. We provide practitioners and service users with a voice through which to influence policy, a forum in which to exchange views, and a stand on which to promote and raise the profile of the arts in criminal justice sector. 

Background
Anne Peaker and Jill Vincent (current Chair of the Board of Trustees of Anne Peaker Centre) established the Unit for the Arts and Offenders (now Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice) 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 has been 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 Anne Peaker Centre today.

Anne Peaker Centre now has an established track record of valuable research, training, information provision and advocacy. The centre functions not as an external, confrontational lobbyist, but as an involved practitioner and umbrella body, working collaboratively with all parties. As such Anne Peaker Centre has gained respect from the prison service, government departments, arts organisations, educationalists and researchers.

Annual Report
Below is a copy of our annual report.