testimonials from professionals

“I am a serving Police Officer with GMP and have been a law trainer for new police recruits for the past six years. On Wednesday 22nd Oct I attended Leigh rugby ground to watch a presentation from the Choose Life Project which was being delivered by Steve Duffy, a Prison Officer. Also delivering an input were two people named Brian and Julie who are ex addicts. 

“I would just like to say a big thank you to Steve Duffy and the volunteers who attended the two day talk. On behalf of my colleagues I would like to pass on our gratitude for the experiences shared with us throughout the two days. The volunteers were very brave, and it must have been very emotional for them to share their stories with complete strangers. It has definitely changed my views and will be very beneficial in our future roles so thanks again and we wish all the volunteers every success”. 

“This last week I had the pleasure to meet some extremely brave individuals. Not only are they finally clean of their evil addiction, they were brave enough to stand up and tell a crowd of strangers of their own personal life stories and experiences. Nothing can change their past criminal lives, but if they can reach out and prevent the same thing from happening to another, then they are truly on their own road to recovery. The project was a great insight into the past lives/daily experiences of these individuals and if it wasn’t for their honesty, we wouldn’t be able to understand how we can help and prevent others from traveling down that same path. Keep up the good work. I am already spreading the good word of the project to other organisations hoping that they too could benefit as much as I did. Thanks. (These are my own true personal reflections) P.S Steve, you’re a real credit to the prison service!!”

“I attended Bryn Deva today for the Choose Life Project and two things need to be mentioned.

“In all my experience working in higher education, I have not encountered such emotional and enthusiastic feedback from students”.

“This last week I had the pleasure to meet some extremely brave individuals. Not only are they finally clean of their evil addiction, they were brave enough to stand up and tell a crowd of strangers of their own personal life stories and experiences. Nothing can change their past criminal lives, but if they can reach out and prevent the same thing from happening to another, then they are truly on their own road to recovery. The project was a great insight into the past lives/daily experiences of these individuals and if it wasn’t for their honesty, we wouldn’t be able to understand how we can help and prevent others from traveling down that same path. Keep up the good work. I am already spreading the good word of the project to other organisations hoping that they too could benefit as much as I did. Thanks. (These are my own true personal reflections) P.S Steve, you’re a real credit to the prison service!!”

“Excellent manner with the young people, well able to engage with them, all young people commented they found it useful”.

“I attended the presentation at St Asaph on 07/03 and thought it was superb. The accounts from Peter and Paul were really effective and I have a lot of respect for them both. I hope to see the project in North Wales more often. Many thanks”.