Award Scheme - What are the Butler Trust Awards?

Butler Trust awards are the most sought after awards for people working with offenders in the UK. Entry is free and the prestige of winning is considerable.

The awards are given independently of the England and Wales, Scottish and Northern Ireland Prison, Probation and Criminal Justice Social Work (CJSW) Services who support them by affording award winners special leave to develop their work.

Butler Trust Awards:

  • identify and promote excellence and innovation
  • enable the development and dissemination of best practice
  • recognise and honour exceptionally dedicated, and often creative, work
  • provide professional and personal development opportunities
  • provide public recognition for a sector typically misunderstood by the general public.

These awards are available each year:

  • The Lord Woolf Award for resettlement work in partnership with other agencies
  • The Terry Waite Award for work with lifers and long-term prisoners
  • The Trevor Brooking Award for the Personal Development of Offenders through Sport
  • The Award for Excellence (supported by GSL)
  • Group Award for a group of three or more people working together
  • The Greening/Sustainable Development Award for environmental, waste management and greening initiatives (supported by HMPS)
  • The Wates Foundation Award for work with female offenders
  • The Diversity Award for work which promotes equality (supported by HMPS)
  • The Keith Bromley Award for education and skills training
  • The Helen Hamlyn Trust Award for education and skills training work with young offenders
  • The Health Improvement Award for healthcare and health promotion work (supported by NHS Prison Health)
  • The Sainsbury Centre Award for Mental Health Work
  • The Award for the Health and Well-being of Staff (supported by Atos Origin)
  • The Award for Court Escort and Custody work (supported by Reliance Secure Task Management)
  • The Award for Offender Management and Sentence Planning (supported by G4S)
  • The Award for Community Engagement and Civil Renewal
  • The Award for Public Protection
  • The Community Justice Partnership Award (supported by SPS and COSLA)
  • Development Awards: awards for work which The Trust feels it can help winners to develop and disseminate (one Development Award is supported by the Prison Officers’ Association)
  • Achievement Awards: awards for work which already constitutes accredited, approved or core programmes
  • Certificate Awards: several are available each year for other outstanding nominations.

Click here to visit the Award Winners page.

New Award for 2008

  • The Community Payback Environmental Award (supported by NOMS)