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Longford Prize


The Longford Prize is an annual award presented in the United Kingdom to an organisation or individual working in the field of social or penal reform. The award was established in 2002 in honour of Lord Longford, a lifelong penal reform campaigner, and has been sponsored by both The Independent and the Daily Telegraph. It is organized in association with the Prison Reform Trust and is presented at the annual Longford Lecture.

The winner is presented with a cheque for £5,000. Additional prizes are awarded by the judges to highly commended individuals and organisations, and occasionally a lifetime achievement award is made, usually to someone who has made a difference by their own initiative and resourcefulness in prisoners' lives. Next year's prize will be awarded at the The 2017 Longford Lecture in November. The prize is now sponsored by the McGrath Charitable Trust.

The judges for the Longford Prize in 2017 were: Lord Ramsbotham (formerly Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons), Chloe Billington, child therapist, contributor to Inside Time and National Prison Radio, the journalist, Mary Riddell; Peter Stanford and a representative of the sponsors, The McGrath Charitable Trust. The panel is chaired by former prison governor and Longford Trust trustee, John Podmore.

The two winners of the Prize in 2016 were the charity Unlock. and the Shakespeare Trilogy project. Unlock, founded in 1999, is run by people with convictions for the estimated 10.5 million people living with convictions in the UK. It has the invaluable aim of countering the sometimes life-long disadvantage that can result from having a criminal record. The Shakespeare Trilogy is an outreach scheme by Clean Break Theatre Company, York Saint John University’s Prison Partnership Project and the Donmar Warehouse, developed from over four years of workshops in women’s jails.


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