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Nominations now open for 2017-18 Awards!

The dust may only just have settled on the Award Ceremony for last year’s winners, but nominations are now open for this year’s Awards (with a closing date of 30 June)!

The Awards are presented by our Patron, HRH The Princess Royal, and help give credit where it’s due to people who go above and beyond in their work in prisons, probation and youth justice settings (including volunteers and third-party employees).

You can find more about the Awards, and how to nominate someone, in the Awards section of our site. And you can view a short video about the Awards here.

Please note: the closing date for nominations is 30 June and the Trust will not be able to accept nominations received after this time.

Butler Trust on the BBC!

One Show videoLast night’s BBC One Show included a feature on Butler Trust Princess Royal’s Prize winner, Officer Bernadette Hare. The show kicked off with a 5 minute video from HMP Bullingdon about Bernie and the work for which she won her Award, and she received warm applause from the studio audience afterwards.

Commenting on the piece, our Director, Simon Shepherd, said: “While it would have been good to hear from some prisoners talking about the difference staff can make, it was great to see an officer being portrayed in a positive light for a change. This shows that there is an appetite for good news stories out there, and we hope there’ll be plenty more where that came from about the many hidden heroes working in our prisons, probation and youth justice services”.

[Watch the video here]

Princess Royal presents 2017 Butler Trust Awards

9 March 2017, St James’s Palace, London: The Butler Trust’s 32nd Annual Award Ceremony, hosted by HRH The Princess Royal, took place on 9 March, in the State Rooms at St James’s Palace.

The Princess presented 10 Awards and 19 Commendations to a total of 39 staff members and volunteers from prison and community justice settings across the UK, and the event was attended by over 200 people from across the criminal justice sector.

Officer Bernadette Hare receiving her AwardThis year’s Princess Royal’s Prize for Outstanding Achievement (the highest Award) went to Bernadette Hare, for her exceptional work as a prison officer at HMP Bullingdon.

Commenting on her Award, Bernadette’s Governor, Ian Blakeman said:

“Bernie is an outstanding Prison Officer and I am especially grateful that the Butler Trust has recognised this exceptional work that can often go unseen. Bernie demonstrates that Prisons can be places of hope by her caring approach towards those in her care.”

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The Butler Trust

The Butler Trust recognises, celebrates, develops and disseminates outstanding work and best practice across UK prisons, probation and youth justice.

The Trust is a registered charity, set up in 1985 and named after reforming former Home Secretary, “RAB” Butler.

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