Press release: Revolving Doors Agency shortlisted for Guardian Charity Awards
National charity, Revolving Doors Agency, is delighted to be shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Guardian Charity Awards.
The Guardian Charity Awards 2016 are open to UK social welfare charities that can demonstrate excellence and achievement in what they do. The judges were particularly looking for, amongst other criteria, innovative causes, evidence of impact and overall contribution to social welfare.
Revolving Doors exist to change systems and improve services for people who have multiple problems in contact with the criminal justice system – ‘the revolving doors group’. Problems such as mental ill-health, drug and alcohol abuse, crime, homelessness and domestic violence can reinforce each other, and people easily end up in a downward spiral. Our cause is different to many others’ as we don’t just look at one problem; we see the whole person and all their needs. Innovatively, those who have faced this cycle of personal crisis and crime now help us to change our country’s services for the better.
Christina Marriott, Chief Executive of Revolving Doors Agency, said:
“We’re delighted to be recognised for pioneering this cause. From being an ‘invisible’ group as late as the 1990s, those suffering multiple problems are now the subject of national discussion, and Revolving Doors is proud to have played a leading role in this.
To be nominated for the Guardian Awards will hopefully further much-needed attention to the often overlooked, marginalised and stigmatised revolving doors group. It would allow us to show more clearly that despite a system sometimes feeling stacked against them, those who are determined to escape the revolving door can do so, and can go on to make a wider difference to others at national level.”
The Guardian’s winning charities will be announced at an event in central London on 13 December.
Revolving Doors has also been shortlisted for this year’s UK Social Enterprise Awards, with the winner to be announced on Monday 28th at a national awards ceremony with the minister for civil society, Rob Wilson MP.
