Month: September 2024

We are delighted to announce that The Prison Phoenix Trust has been Highly Commended for supporting the health and wellbeing of people in prison in the 2024 Inspire Justice Awards.

Host Clive Myrie presented our Director Selina Sasse and the team with a Highly Commended Health and Wellbeing Employer of the Year award, saying: “Their work represents the best of us.”

Helen Judge, Area Executive Director HMPPS, recognised The PPT’s work with ‘some of the most troubled in society’.

In the UK’s only awards programme dedicated to recognising the achievements of the entire criminal justice sector, The PPT was praised highly for its innovative use of yoga and meditation to support the mental health of prisoners during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. This award builds upon the organisation’s 2023 Charity of the Year in the Om Yoga Awards and the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, which we have held since 2011. Continue Reading

The Prison Phoenix Trust helped Nicola to turn her life around in prison. She has now pledged a powerful legacy to the organisation that gave her the gift of hope

Author Nicola Henneveld has decided to support The Prison Phoenix Trust  with a major gift in her will. “The PPT does such valuable work. I want to leave what  I have to people who really need it and make sure as many people as possible benefit.”

Find out how you too can give the gift of hope.

Nicola’s decision was informed by hard-edged life experience. Twenty five years ago, ‘home’ for Nicola was a prison cell. She was beginning a sentence at HMP Drake Hall in Staffordshire.

“These days I’m living my best life,” laughs Nicola. Now a successful author, she lives in the pretty little cottage she owns in the leafy countryside.  “I’ve got my little house and my dog.  I’m the freest I’ve ever been,” she explains.  “But I saw the real world in prison,” she recalls. “It broke my heart.”

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