While the Butler Trust’s Annual Awards are for outstanding individuals – the Trust’s Ruth Mann Trophy is for notable custodial-based initiatives, which have brought significant benefits locally and could be rolled out more widely. All submissions for the Trophy are added to this site – and the most recent submissions and winners are listed below. For more information, visit the Butler Trust website.
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2021 Finalists
[Winner] Making visits autism friendly [Maghaberry]
See the Light (refurbishing fogged windows) [Full Sutton]
Problem Support Mentors [Wealstun]
2021 Submissions (All)
Community gardens regeneration project [Brinsford]
Decency-improvement residents party [Bristol]
Health Eating Initiative [Buckley Hall]
Survivors Manchester [Buckley Hall]
Enabling-Community Wing [Bure]
Complex Case and Support Plans [Coldingley]
Paving the Way project (supporting care leavers on release) [Deerbolt]
Charity Shop (Roses Boutique) [Drake Hall]
Freedom Programme (for domestic violence survivors) [East Sutton Park]
Improving Nutrition Project [Eastwood Park]
Airborne Initiative (outwards bound project) [Feltham]
ACCESS service (for women with complex needs) [Foston Hall]
See the Light (window repair and refurbishment programme) [Full Sutton]
Safer Custody Dedicated Cleaning Team [Full Sutton]
Still Walks VR initiative [Heathrow IRC]
Virtual Reality Induction programme [Heathrow IRC]
Hewell Wellbeing unit [Hewell]
Amends People Awards (for prisoners and staff) [Highpoint]
Hull Supporters (“listeners” scheme) [Hull]
Hull Wellbeing Unit [Hull]
HOPE Unit Progression Regime [Humber]
The Stoic programme [Huntercombe]
Eco Homes building project [Leyhill]
Liverpool Wellbeing Unit [Liverpool]
DIY-SOS: The Big Liverpool Refresh [Liverpool]
Making visits autism friendly [Maghaberry]
TRC – Training, Rehabilitation and Culture (horticulture initiative) [Oakwood]
Peterborough Accommodation Project [Peterborough]
Restorative Prison [Peterborough]
Feline Feral Friends (rodent control) [Risley]
Pet Dogs to Work initiative [Rye Hill]
Making Connections (mentoring on release) [Send]
Our Time (arts initiative) [Send]
Vulnerability Prediction Tool (VPT) [Serco prisons]
Stocken Buskers [Stocken]
Veterans Breakfast Club [Stocken]
Decency Team [Stocken]
In-house counsellor [Swansea]
The Mount Foodbank [The Mount]
Thorn Cross Farm Shop [Thorn Cross]
Digital prison hub [Wayland]
Problem Support Mentors [Wealstun]
Cat D survival course [Whatton]
Social Care Advocates [Whatton]
Parallel Visits (for prisoners with no visitors) [Whatton]
SMT Group Supervision sessions [Whitemoor]
Razor-blade free prison [Whitemoor]
