Riding Lights has a long history of touring to prisons and Roughshod offers
full-scale performances and theatre workshops in prisons and young offenders'institutions.

Dozens of one off performances and workshops have taken place over recent years, including a national tour of Walkout! (an adaptation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress ) in 1993.

Most recently, in 2004, the company undertook a National Prison and Church Tour of Hope opera performing free of charge (thanks to a generous grant from the Anchor Foundation) 32 times in 26 prisons across the UK.

Riding Lights Roughshod, the community company which operates as part of Riding Lights, has undertaken the bulk of the company's prison work since 1992. This year has seen Roughshod perform in Northallerton Young Offenders Institution, HMP Wealstun, HMP Full Sutton and Wetherby YOI, with forthcoming dates in HMP New Hall, HMP Lindholme and HMP Wakefield.

Roughshod offers a highly entertaining and vibrant 45 minute show bases on a variety of storytelling techniques, the company always allows time following the performance to talk individually with inmates, and to encourage and discuss any questions which have been raised by the performance.

As part of Riding Lights' vision to take Theatre to places where Theatre is rare, and Christian communication often difficult, the company operates on an ability-to-pay basis .

Funding to support the company's prison work comes, in part, from awards made by trusts specifically for that purpose and from donations made as a result of Roughshod's other touring performances.

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