Our VisionCreate Recovery is about helping recovering individuals flourish and actualise their potential. We understand addiction to be a pervasive and destructive disorder and recognise the courage it takes to embrace change.
Our focus upon creative pursuits and the arts represents our belief that creativity is strongly linked to well-being and sense of self. We believe that developing creativity can strengthen self-image, self-worth and the ability to connect with others. Our vision is that through our charity individuals will have the opportunity to be part of a community: A community that nurtures creativity but also understands struggles with addiction and fully supports abstinence based recovery. Our programmes will give individuals the practical and financial support they need to explore and nurture their creativity. We will help people develop life skills and the confidence and motivation to sustain recovery and/or move into work, education or training within the creative industries. We are a work in progress. Please come back and visit our site in a few months, when our projects will be properly up and running across a number of sites in the UK. Please note our charity was originally called Freedom from Addiction (charity no. 115885). Our ProjectsWorkshops, mentoring, scholarships and research
We currently run a series of psycho-educational workshops at addiction treatment centres to develop life skills and creativity in early recovery. We are in the process of setting up a mentoring scheme. This scheme aims to connect people in recovery with others who are already working in creative industries. This scheme will conceptualise creativity broadly across the following domains: Visual arts, performance and theatre, crafts, music and dance, and creative writing. We are also working towards establishing a formal competitive annual scholarship and grant fund for training and education in the arts. Create Recovery also hopes to support high quality research into exploring the links between creativity and well-being, mental illness and addiction. Our People
Mike
Our charity was established in memory of Mike. Mike was a talented writer and aspired to become a filmmaker. He was known in our community to be highly creative, funny, compassionate and a great friend. We hope that Create Recovery will offer others opportunities, which are in line with Mike’s aspirations and achievements. 
Caitilin & Brian
Some of our fantastic Trustees 
Cassie
Project Co-ordinator [email protected] Please feel free to contact Cassie Hogan for further information about our current projects, how we could help you, and/or any suggestions you have about the future of our charity. Contact Us |
