Outloud Productions and Essex Victim Support brings you - Do The Right Thing

Doing the right thing isn’t always easy - should you stick by your friends or tell the truth and risk the consequences - even when you know what you should do it isn't always the path you take - two cousins, nothing to do and a lack of respect, add a knife and a boring Saturday afternoon and imagine the outcome - can the audience persuade the young men to Do the Right Thing?

This workshop aims to:-

• Explore the controversial issues facing the next generation.
• Inform and educate young people about the nature and impact of Violent Knife Crime and to increase their knowledge about what help and support is available for victims.

Each workshop lasts an hour, and to maintain effectiveness at least two or three workshops are normally performed in any one day.

Who are the workshops aimed at?

• Year 8/9/10/11 secondary school children aged 12 - 16
• College students aged 16+
• Teachers and support workers within schools.

Outloud in Wimbledon!

Summer 2009 tour in partnership with the Metropolitan Police.

Book your Do The Right Thing workshop before all the available dates are gone! Call 07946 357521

Act Now! For information on the courses we are running phone 07946 357521 and realise your potential or email us at:
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‘This is what my yr 10 group said - Without prompting: "Outloud lot were well good! I thought that bit of the day was brilliant- I got really into it!"’
Nadine Mcfadden
Teacher, Colbayns High School, Clacton, Essex

"Very informative and entertaining. The message was very clear. Everyone's talking about the show - the school's buzzing! Very impressed with the delivery, acting skills and manner of the presenter."
Head of year
Treetops School
Grays

"It was very hard hitting, well scripted/well pitched and the students engaged well in the Q&A."
Hannah Wilson
Harris Academy
Merton

Do The Right Thing update - Anti-knife crime workshops presented in Essex Schools during Inside Justice Week 2009

Victim Support in Essex, as part of Inside Justice Week, presented four days of knife crime workshops in schools in Essex.

Actors from Outloud Productions dramatically told the story of 18-year-old JayRay (Edward Board), who has become involved in gang culture and found himself convicted of murder after a rival gang-member was knifed.

Also involved were JayRay's mother (Sally Lawrence), his cousin Robbie (Shafiq Mirza) and P.c. Clarke (Rocky Rising), who acted out the scenario as part of the "Do the Right Thing" workshop presented by Victim Support's Hilary Marck and Lynda Ketteridge.

The attached pictures were taken during one of the workshops at Ockendon School on Thursday 23 October, which explored issues such as peer pressure to become involved in criminal activity, respect for others, the victims of crime and how, by making different choices, people's lives can be changed forever.

The workshops were aimed at to raise awareness of how young people may find themselves being pressured into getting involved with knife crime, and how they can "do the right thing" by turning their back on this lifestyle.

They were presented by Victim Support and Outloud Productions at schools in Shenfield, Ockendon and Southend, and are part of a range of outreach work taken into Essex schools as part of the preventative work they do with young people. Other issues addressed include domestic abuse, and bullying.

New cast for Autumn performances of Do The Right Thing

John Oakes
George Kemp
Sally Lawrence
Rocky Rising

 

For more information about the workshops, please contact Lynda Ketteridge, Young Victims of Crime Services Manager, for Victim Support in Essex, on 0845 456 5995 or Mobile: 07914 311005 or phone Outloud Productions now on 07946 357521 and realise your potential.