“We are honoured to be receive this year’s Robin Corbett Award for Prisoner Rehabilitation. It is the most wonderful recognition of our work delivering intensive mentoring and behaviour-change programmes in prisons and communities across the UK, alongside our early intervention and resettlement work. We believe powerfully in every person’s capacity to live healthy, crime free lives if they are given the support, supervision and rehabilitation they need. We can’t thank you enough for recognising our contributions, alongside so many extraordinary partners, towards creating a more nurturing, person-centred, truly rehabilitative justice system.”

“We are extremely proud to have won such a prestigious award. The Robin Corbett Award is a National award which is one of the most sought after in the charity world. To have received “highly commended” in the House of Lords and from Lady Val Corbett herself, is a real honour for a small charity from Yorkshire. The money is invaluable as it will enable us to help some of our female offenders, as they are released from prison. All ex-offenders struggle with basic essentials on release, this prize money will purchase things like kettles, bedding and the likes and is part of their vital starter kit to help them settle back in to the community. The publicity will help on several fronts. It will give Tempus Novo national coverage from which in turn could well influence funders, employers and ex-offenders themselves to get in touch.”

“We were honoured to receive this award as we work in an area often overlooked. There is now a real energy to start social enterprises, so we have opened our residential unit which is staffed 24/7. This will enable us to rent out unused rooms at weekends. More importantly, the women are becoming involved, taking bookings, setting up the rooms and hosting with catering and refreshments. This is really helping them gain entrepreneurial and social skills. We intend using the prize money to buy catering equipment."

As a fairly new charity, it means a lot to receive this prestigious commendation recognising our impact. We wouldn’t be here today without our prison champions who go above and beyond to support our work. On behalf of our staff and trustees, I’d like to thank the judges for recognising the transformative power of coaching for those who live and work in prison. Winning the Robin Corbett Award has further strengthened our position as a leading organisation taking coaching into prisons.This valuable recognition of Spark Inside's programmes, allows us to raise awareness of coaching as an effective approach in our prisons and, most importantly, it helps us to reach more people in prison, changing their lives and deepening our impact. The prize money will go towards funding our programme delivery and their independent, external evaluations, which so far have shown the power of coaching."