This issue-based sound recording project took place over a 12-month period during 2003/04 with young people from Eyres Monsell and New Parks Youth Clubs, the Muslim Khatri Association in Highfields and the Contact Project on St Matthews Estate.

The groups produced a radio drama and chat show about anti-social behaviour, a radio chat show with interviews about the age of consent, and music and interviews about a youth club and how it keeps young people away from drugs and trouble. Some of the recordings were featured on the local Takeover Radio station and can also be heard at soundbytes.tv

There is a pack available with a CD and postcards made during the project available through the Soft Touch Shop.

Soundbytes was funded by a grant from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund.

This multimedia exhibition took place at the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham in December 2003. The installation was the result of a visual and audio dialogue between young offenders in Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute and a group of young men considered to be ‘at risk of offending’ from Nottingham. Soft Touch worked with the group in prison whilst the National Centre for Citizenship & the Law, based at the Galleries of Justice, and Apt Arts worked with the Nottingham group.

The Glen Parva inmates who worked on the project created images, poetry, rap music and voice recordings which convey the reality of life inside. This work was created as a response to questions about prison life which were sent to them in the form of poster designs and video by the Nottingham group.

"This is an excellent project for vulnerable teenagers. It helps them to look beyond a life of crime and prison. It shows there is more to life than crime and keeping up this big bad boy image". Glen Parva inmate

The project was funded by the Clore Duffield Foundation and the Baring Foundation.