It’s a priority for us to raise awareness of our coaching work in prisons, so we’ll be looking to engage more with the media.

For all media enquiries and other bookings, please call +44 0)7936 362 619 or email media@​sparkinside.​org.

LATEST: National coverage of our new community coaching programme — read it here!

Byline Times Keeping hope alive is vital for prisoners facing a double lockdown.

Daily Telegraph Joint letter to the Prime Minister and Justice Secretary calling for housing for all prison leavers

The Justice Gap The pandemic has seen prisons emerging changed — and ready for more change.

Tortoise Digital ThinkIn: A world without prisons

Social Care Today The reality of life in prison during lockdown

Daily Telegraph Covid-19 has pushed prisons to breaking point

Russell Webster Life Coaching For Our Justice Heroes During Covid-19

Byline Times The Forgotten Consequences of those in a ​‘Double-Lockdown’

BBC’s The Big Questions: Should we put redemption for prisoners before retribution? Spark Inside CEO Vicki Cardwell makes the case for rehabilitation LIVE on the BBC. 

Byline Times and The Justice Gap Can our coaching programmes empower people in prison to escape a failing system? (January 2019)

Spark Inside: A Bright Future — The Exceptionals (May 2019)

Times Letters, Knife Crime Orders — The Times

Goal setting with a prison life coach — Prison Radio, We Are Straightline (February 2019)

Coaching in prisons — BBC Radio London, Breakfast Programme (3^rd January 2019)

Coaching in prisons - BBC Radio Five Live, Afternoon Edition (3^rd January 2019)

Prisons are failing. It’s time to find an alternative — Agenda, World Economic Forum

We have solutions to crime. We just need to scale them — Agenda, World Economic Forum

How young offenders make better choices thanks to life coaches — Children and Young People Now

Spark Inside: Believing In the potential of young people leaving prison — StartUs Magazine

Spark Inside — The Exceptionals

Unlocking inner heroes — Rathbones Review 

The women behind bars — Fabulous Magazine 

Life-coaching — a different way to empower young offenders — Magistrate 

As part of the Game Changers Women’s Leadership Summit, our Founder and CEO, Baillie Aaron, set out a passionate argument about why we need to overhaul our failing prison system in her latest speech at the House of Commons.

We are available to speak about our prison coaching programmes and their impact; the challenges and opportunities in prison policy; and our story of social entrepreneurship at businesses and organisations.

Our previous talks have ranged from keynote addresses to conference panels to company presentations, for organisations such as Impetus PEF, Triangle Trust, The Advocacy Academy, Rotary International and others. 

To request a speaker, contact us at media@​sparkinside.​org.