A charity founder has been given a lifetime achievement award for his tireless work getting prisoners to help the disabled.

Former probation officer David Brown has been awarded the Lord Longford Lifetime Achievement Award by the Longford Trust – named after the Labour peer and prison campaigner.

Mr Brown, who lives in Wilsden with his wife Susan, collected the award for his work with the Margaret Carey Foundation, which works with prisoners to recondition bicycles and wheelchairs for the developing world, at a ceremony in London yesterday.

The 68-year-old said: “I am flattered to have been given the award. It is a bit embarrassing because I didn’t expect it.”

Mr Brown worked in the probation service in Bradford for 27 years until he retired in 1997.

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