Updated Case Study - The Comedy School

 The Comedy School:

Website- https://thecomedyschool.com/prisons.shtml

Executive summary- The Comedy School is a performing arts school in London, which primarily offers projects for prisoners to take part in. Things such as workshops, residencies and shows based on performance and other art skills to prisons. The art forms are used as educational and rehabilitative tools. All activities are devised to address the specific needs of offenders.

Business overview- They deliver workshops, residencies and shows based on performance and other arts skills to prisons, Young Offenders' Institutions and secure units. The art forms are used as educational and rehabilitative tools. They offer these workshops weekly, and it obviously doesn't cost the inmates anything.

Sales and marketing- As they obviously can't charge inmates for their weekly lessons. The Comedy School gets a lot of its money from the Government as it is of course a school. When it comes to marketing, they market themselves to inmates via meetings or word of mouth. The Comedy School will often come to prisons and present themselves to the inmates and tell them what they're all about. 

Operations and resources- Being a performing school for inmates, there is quite a lot of operations that need to take place to ensure no bad behavior. They must, of course, consult with the prison authority and set up times, dates and where's. Police officers will likely attend to make sure nothing bad happens. When it comes to resources they use drama equipment, things like masks, microphones and such. They also have a building which they will use for the activities, it will contain stages, smart screens and likely a cafeteria.

Staff and management team- There is a board of directors which include;

- Prof. David Clutterbuck

- Roma Hooper

-Olivia Landsberg

-Judith Jacob

-Venice Johnson

Keith Palmer is the main director and founder of the business, while also being the company secretary.

Planning- Firstly, they of course need to plan their lessons for the inmates, setting up activities and making sure there are enough teachers/ careers. When it comes to the Cafeteria, they will need to make sure they have plenty of food and drinks. Also, they will need to make sure there are enough inmates taking part in the activities to assume the right amount of teachers and provide enough food.

Finances- Being that 'The Comedy School' is for inmates, they of course can not charge them anything for the lessons. That being said, this of course means that they get their income from people who donate money, as well as the Government who fund the school. I can't find any exact figures unfortunately, this is due to this business being a school so they don't list their finances.