The charity won the Innovative Quality Outcomes Award at the 3rd Sector Care Awards Ceremony held at the London Marriot Hotel Grosvenor Square.

The award was given to Safe Families for their new way of addressing care; bringing volunteers into people’s homes to help support struggling families, to prevent their children being taken into care.

The 3rd Sector Care Award judges commented: “It is a social movement that is innovative, and changes not only practices but also lives.”

Since 2013, Safe Families has improved the lives of more than 4800 children living in the UK.

More than 2000 vulnerable families who are struggling to cope have been supported by the charity’s volunteers.

Keith Danby, Chief Executive at Safe Families for Children told Premier: “It was really just fantastic news, we had been nominated for a number of awards this year but to get to the final and to win it as just incredible.”

He described the process leading up to the victory, saying: “I had to go before a very experienced panel and be interviewed for 30 minute and they asked lots of questions – pretty daunting!

“Well, we were in the final…and they announced that we’d won it.”

Regarding how the charity helps families, Keith Danby explained: “Often we will have known very little about them, other than that we’ve had this referral.

“We go out and meet the family, we link the family with a volunteer and they support the family through whatever challenging times they have.”

Mr Justice Mann on Thursday suggested that journalists could argue that detail should not be kept from the public just because the 77-year-old singer wanted to keep his financial affairs secret.

The judge issued the warning at the latest in a series of preliminary hearings at the High Court in London after lawyers representing the Christian entertainer asked him to bar journalists from having access to part of a document which contained personal financial details.

He said the details contained in the document would remain private at this stage of the litigation.

But he said the position may change at a trial.

Sir Cliff is suing the BBC over coverage of a raid at his apartment in Sunningdale, Berkshire, in August 2014.

Lawyers representing the singer say he has suffered ”profound and long-lasting” damage.

BBC editors have said they will ”defend ourselves vigorously”.

A spokesman said the BBC had reported Sir Cliff’s ”full denial of the allegations at every stage”.

Lawyers have told how, in late 2013, a man made an allegation to the Metropolitan Police, saying he had been sexually assaulted by Sir Cliff at Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane football stadium, in Sheffield, when a child in 1985.

Metropolitan Police officers passed the allegation to South Yorkshire Police in July 2014.

Sir Cliff denied the allegation and in June 2016 prosecutors announced that he would face no charges.

Mr Justice Mann has overseen a number of preliminary hearings.

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The 250-year-old Protestant Reformed Church in Waedenswil, near Zurich, agreed to stop ringing its bells every 15 minutes after a local couple complained about the chimes.

The unnamed couple who lived closed to the church in Switzerland had sought a halt to the hourly and quarter-hourly clangs between 10 pm and 7 am.

They also wanted the early morning ringing to be delayed from 6am to 7am, which the church voluntarily agreed to.

However, many locals were seemingly unphased by the chimes as more than 2,000 residents campaigned against the decision and took the dispute to the federal court.

The court, in Lausanne, overturned the earlier 2015 ruling on Wednesday, stating that reducing the amount of night-time chimes would have a limited effect on the quality of life.

It also said the nightly bell chimes were a part of Wädenswil’s culture and local tradition.

Responding to the court’s decision, Peter Meier, a member of the church’s council told the BBC: “We are delighted with this decision, not just for us, but for the town and the whole community.

“The bells are an important part of the town’s feeling of home, and have long given a rhythm to people’s lives here.”

Thirteen of the churches being helped are on the Historic England ‘At Risk Register’.

Churches receiving grants from the National Churches Trust include:

• St Botolph, Boston Stump, in Boston, Lincolnshire towers over the fens as a landmark to sailors and pilots received a £40,000 to help fund urgent repairs to the tower roof and clock and to refurbish the kitchen.

• St James’ church in Burton Lazars, Leicestershire contains the grave of the Zborowski family, whose racing cars were the inspiration for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, received £10,000 to install a toilet, kitchen and meeting room.

• St Mary de Castro, Leicester, where King Richard III worshipped, received £30,000 to help fund urgent repairs to the roof and drains, to replace the floor and to install underfloor heating.

Huw Edwards, Vice President of The National Churches Trust said: “At the heart of communities in cities, towns and villages, churches are a treasure trove of architecture, history and faith.

“I’m delighted that the future of 93 churches and chapels in England, Scotland and Wales is being safeguarded. What a great Christmas present!”

Christian charity Open Doors UK, along with an Iraqi pastor and Conservative MP Dame Caroline Spelman presented the Bible to Mrs May on Wednesday in Parliament.

Their goal was to highlight the plight of Christians and minorities in the Middle East and ask for help in securing a better future for them.

Father Daniel from Erbil in Iraq gave Mrs May the Arabic Bible, which was found at St Mary’s shrine in Karamles, Iraq, after been burnt by IS.

Open Doors said the survival of the Bible symbolises the hope which the Christian community in Iraq continue to hold on to.

Father Daniel with the Bible burnt by Daesh and presented to Prime Minister Theresa May.

Fr Daniel later spoke in Parliament to assembled MPs, Peers and church leaders along with Caroline Spelman, Labour MP Kate Green, Conservative MP Alistair Burt and Open Doors CEO Lisa Pearce.

The event came after 808,172 people from 142 countries signed a petition, launched by Open Doors, asking the UK government and the United Nations to ensure that Middle Eastern Christians -and other minorities – enjoy the right to equal citizenship, dignified living conditions and a prominent role in reconciling and rebuilding their society.