Spark Inside

✨ JOIN OUR TEAM AS A SERVICE DELIVERY MANAGER IN THE NEW YEAR! ✨    In January 2025, we'll be looking for a Service Delivery Manager (SDM) to lead the delivery of our coaching programme for young people working across London prisons.    The SDM role is perfect for someone who:   ⚡ Thrives when building relationships with young people ⚡ Is highly organised ⚡ Has the passion to achieve outcomes in challenging environments   You will be responsible for:   ⚡ Engaging young people in prison and in the community  ⚡ Managing our team of freelance coaches  ⚡ The smooth running of our programmes   We will be accepting applications from 2 January onwards. The deadline for applications is 9am on 29 January! 

We are thrilled and honoured to have received Zurich's Innovation in Diversity & Inclusion Award for our Black Hero’s Journey Programme! This award will allow us to continue to drive change in the justice system and unlock the potential of more young people. We dedicate the award to the young men who participated in the Black Hero's Journey; their commitment inspires us.

Fantastic to see our Black Hero's Journey report featured in The Voice Newspaper this month - in print and online! Love that they included this powerful quote from the report's author Dr. Noreen D.: “Programmes like Black Hero’s Journey demonstrate the transformative power of hope, identity, and culturally affirming spaces. May the stories shared here spark a flame that drives us towards a fairer and more equitable future.” 🔥 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e878b9ny

Service Delivery Manager role coming up very soon! ⬇️

‘From a prisoner’s perspective, their quality of life can be radically altered - for better and for worse – by the actions and attitudes of a single officer.’ Brilliant to read this important report by Prison Reform Trust today, highlighting the importance of the right training and support for prison officers, so they can positively impact the lives of people in prison. That’s why at Spark Inside, we provide coaching support to prison staff, which the University of Lincoln found improved their well-being, confidence and communication skills. As one officer commented: “It allowed me to stop for a few seconds, then interact, rather than just be reactive.” We also provide coaching skills training to officers in the gym at one London prison to improve their listening skills and enable constructive conversations. As one gym officer reflected: “I’ve learnt that helping someone to think is more powerful than telling them what to do.” 💪 PRT’s report also recommends increasing activities that build relationships and empathy between officers and prisoners. We have recently begun a pilot of The Conversation in another London prison, where we use Deep Democracy techniques to work with those who live and work in prison to support mutual dialogue and understanding. 💭 The work with prison gym staff pilot and The Conversation are both currently being evaluated and we look forward to sharing the findings in due course. We hope that the Ministry of Justice UK implements the recommendations of this timely report and we look forward to working with more prison officers and managers in the future, to support their professional development and create more rehabilitative prison cultures. 🤝 HM Inspectorate of Prisons Rosie Meek Unlock - for people with criminal records Unlocked Graduates Andi Brierley Zahid Mubarek Trust HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Paula Harriott Natasha Porter OBE Khatuna Tsintsadze Soruche Saajedi Adeyinka Olufemi L.

‘From a prisoner’s perspective, their quality of life can be radically altered - for better and for worse – by the actions and attitudes of a single officer.’ Brilliant to read this important report by Prison Reform Trust today, highlighting the importance of the right training and support for prison officers, so they can positively impact the lives of people in prison. That’s why at Spark Inside, we provide coaching support to prison staff, which the University of Lincoln found improved their well-being, confidence and communication skills. As one officer commented: “It allowed me to stop for a few seconds, then interact, rather than just be reactive.” We also provide coaching skills training to officers in the gym at one London prison to improve their listening skills and enable constructive conversations. As one gym officer reflected: “I’ve learnt that helping someone to think is more powerful than telling them what to do.” 💪 PRT’s report also recommends increasing activities that build relationships and empathy between officers and prisoners. We have recently begun a pilot of The Conversation in another London prison, where we use Deep Democracy techniques to work with those who live and work in prison to support mutual dialogue and understanding. 💭 The work with prison gym staff pilot and The Conversation are both currently being evaluated and we look forward to sharing the findings in due course. We hope that the Ministry of Justice UK implements the recommendations of this timely report and we look forward to working with more prison officers and managers in the future, to support their professional development and create more rehabilitative prison cultures. 🤝 HM Inspectorate of Prisons Rosie Meek Unlock - for people with criminal records Unlocked Graduates Andi Brierley Zahid Mubarek Trust HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Paula Harriott Natasha Porter OBE Khatuna Tsintsadze Soruche Saajedi Adeyinka Olufemi L.

‘From a prisoner’s perspective, their quality of life can be radically altered - for better and for worse – by the actions and attitudes of a single officer.’ Brilliant to read this important report by Prison Reform Trust today, highlighting the importance of the right training and support for prison officers, so they can positively impact the lives of people in prison. That’s why at Spark Inside, we provide coaching support to prison staff, which the University of Lincoln found improved their well-being, confidence and communication skills. As one officer commented: “It allowed me to stop for a few seconds, then interact, rather than just be reactive.” We also provide coaching skills training to officers in the gym at one London prison to improve their listening skills and enable constructive conversations. As one gym officer reflected: “I’ve learnt that helping someone to think is more powerful than telling them what to do.” 💪 PRT’s report also recommends increasing activities that build relationships and empathy between officers and prisoners. We have recently begun a pilot of The Conversation in another London prison, where we use Deep Democracy techniques to work with those who live and work in prison to support mutual dialogue and understanding. 💭 The work with prison gym staff pilot and The Conversation are both currently being evaluated and we look forward to sharing the findings in due course. We hope that the Ministry of Justice UK implements the recommendations of this timely report and we look forward to working with more prison officers and managers in the future, to support their professional development and create more rehabilitative prison cultures. 🤝 HM Inspectorate of Prisons Rosie Meek Unlock - for people with criminal records Unlocked Graduates Andi Brierley Zahid Mubarek Trust HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Paula Harriott Natasha Porter OBE Khatuna Tsintsadze Soruche Saajedi Adeyinka Olufemi L.

You did it! Thanks to our generous donors, we have raised an amazing £83,090 during the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge24! The funds raised will help us to deliver our coaching programmes enabling us to support even more people living and working in prisons. THANK YOU! 🙏🎁

We are so grateful to ELEVATE CJS leader sandra johnson and her Spark Inside coach Michael G. Roper for sharing their coaching journey with us on Tuesday in an honest and thought-provoking discussion about the power of coaching. Read Sandra's reflections on her scepticism before starting life coaching, and how opening her mind allowed her to lean into her creativity and make great strides toward identifying and achieving her goals and aspirations: https://lnkd.in/eeeemGBK

We've hit 88% of our fundraising target for the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge24 🎁 Thank you! We're raising £80,000 to support more young people in prison to thrive through our life coaching programmes. DOUBLE your donation before Tuesday 10th December: https://lnkd.in/e3fGAZwe