Good works

We not only promote Good Investment but we also wholeheartedly believe in the power of doing good to change lives, strengthen communities and contribute to civil society.

We invest in a rolling programme of training for trustees and executives to ensure they are able to fulfil their obligations as good stewards. We provide a significant level of financial and in-kind support to a wide range of social sector organisations.

This activity is ‘organised’ through a wide network of long-term, sustainable relationships with key sector infrastructure bodies, and achieved by the application of our profit, people, premises, procurement, promotion and power.

CCLA provides core funding and event sponsorship; we resource research and policy-related activity, co-producing awards programmes to recognise achievement, as well as putting our offices and hospitality at their disposal without charge. Our staff are actively encouraged to get involved in the sector through trusteeship or volunteering. All of this engagement enables us to keep abreast of sector developments and ensures that we maintain a deep understanding of the issues facing our core markets.

Ever wondered where our images come from?

We support Koestler Arts. Koestler Arts is the UK’s leading arts charity. It is nationally respected for its ground-breaking work using the arts as a catalyst for positive change in the lives of people within the criminal justice system and in the public’s perception of their potential. Creativity can support prisoners to learn new skills and gain the confidence to live positive and productive lives. The impact of art in prisons is broad, often providing a springboard for positive change.

The images shown below are used on this website courtesy of Koestler Arts.

Please visit the Koestler Arts website to learn more about the good work they do.

Windmill Through the Reeds

HM Prison Glenochil, Silver Award for Ceramics 2013

Oban Bay

HM Prison Addiewell, Highly Commended Award for Painting 2016

Sun Rise

Hackney and Islington Probation Service, Bronze Award for Painting 2016, Monument Trust Scholar 2015

Meltdown

HM Prison Long Lartin, Patrick Holmes Platinum Award for Painting

Chameleon

HM Prison Addiewell, Maggi Hambling, Bronze Award for Drawing

Sunrise

NPS Norfolk and Suffolk, Mixed Media, The Monument Trust Scholar 2019

Apple For Eve!

HM Young Offender Institution Cookham Wood, Platinum Award for Painting

City Scape

HM Prison Lancaster Farms, Felix Kelly Commended Award for Watercolour and Gouache

Painting of a tree with positive attributes hanging off it

Communitree

HM Prison Cookham Wood, Bronze Award for Oil or Acrylic

Cubist Quilt

HM Prison Wandsworth, Norman Franklin Highly Commended Award for Needlecraft 2011

Favelas

HMP Wakefield

Organised Chaos

Ashford Probation Service (KSS CRC), Knox Cropper Highly Commended Award for Painting

Pop Arty Brush Stroke

HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Stoke Heath, Long Family Commended Award for Painting

Saturday is Match Day

HM Prison Whatton, Silver Award for Painting, The Monument Trust Scholar 2019

Time Lines

HM Prison Isle of Wight (Parkhurst), Berwick Silver Award for Drawing

Lollypop House

HMP Shotts, Highly Commended Award for Painting 2022

Everyone Needs Good Neighbours

HM Prison Northumberland, Mixed Media 2020

Untitled

HM Prison Wandsworth, Craft, Koestler Awards 2022

Savouring Natural Beauty

Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre, Highly Commended Award for Painting, 2022

Flock Together

HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Parc

A Break from the World

HM Young Offender Institution Aylesbury, Arts Society Chiltern Hills Area, Highly Commended Award for Painting

Relax in Green

HM Prison Bristol, Watercolour and Gouache, 2022

Nebu Eye

HM Prison Nottingham, Ed King Silver Award for Painting

Nocturnal Hallucination

HM Young Offender Centre Hydebank Wood

Sun Set Enjoy It

HM Prison Long Lartin

Flight to Freedom

HM Prison Standford Hill (Sheppey Cluster)

I'm Here for You

HM Prison & Young Offender Institution Grampian

Still Life

HM Prison Downview

Multipack with Circles

HM Prison Wandsworth

Sun Dreams

HM Prison Long Lartin

Shepherds Warning

Crossley Place

Koestler Arts - abstract image of the sky

Abstract Sunset

The Tower Hamlets Centre for Mental Health

Cogs

HM Prison Rye Hill

Apples

HM Prison Kilmarnock

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Supporting Koestler Arts

Good works

We not only promote Good Investment but we also wholeheartedly believe in the power of doing good to change lives, strengthen communities and contribute to civil society.

Corporate social responsibility report

Ever wondered where our images come from?