"You are probably aware that Community Service, in partnership with the Tank Museum, Weymouth College and our own ETE, won the Dorset Criminal Justice Board's Partnership of the Year for 2005. We were also nominated for the national award.

You might like to know that the partnership has been short-listed to the final three in the national awards.

The judging panel will be made up of Ministers and other senior representatives, including Baroness Scotland, Lord Goldsmith and Fiona MacTaggart MP and takes place on 25th October."