A 25-year-old businesswoman and mother-of-two is challenging herself to improve the prison rehabilitation system in Sutton.

Last month, Hannah Drury from Purley was awarded Young Franchisee of the Year and Franchisee of the Year at the British Franchise Association (BFA) HSBC Franchise of the Year Awards 2017.

Hannah became operations director of Caremark Sutton, a company caring for adults and children, in 2015 after her stepfather died.

Despite the accolades, she is refusing to get carried away with the success and is determined to achieve more.

She said: “It’s great to have recognition but I would like to use the recognition to have a purpose to do something.”

Being a mum, managing a business and studying for her psychology degree simultaneously isn’t preventing Hannah from undertaking more challenges.

She added: “I always laugh when I’m asked how I find the time.

“I just take each day as it comes and have a diary where I write everything down.”

There are no days off for Hannah as she works from home some evenings after picking up her children and she also does around five hours of work at the weekend, particularly for her psychology degree.

She laughed: "I don't go out much."

Hannah’s education was put on hold a few years ago when her sister died from a rare form of bone cancer.

She said: “The Open University has been brilliant, I always wanted to re-visit my degree."

The ambitious businesswoman has scheduled a meeting with Sutton and Cheam MP Paul Scully and a phone conversation with MP for Carshalton and Wallington Tom Brake to discuss the borough’s prison rehabilitation programme.

She said: “I watch a lot of Ted Talks, especially about rehabilitation and injustice in America."

Hannah is aiming to visit High Down Prison in Sutton to get a better understanding of how the system operates so she can then consider how it can be improved.

How did Hannah become so enthusiastic about helping other people?

She said: “It’s always been deep within me.

“When things are not right or fair it doesn’t sit well with me and it doesn’t sit with me to do nothing either.

"Some people don’t like to see those things but I like to know and see everything whether it’s good or bad.

"Now I have children I think it’s important that they see me being active in making society better because if we don’t pass these values to our children things will stay as they are now.”