Our volunteers hold a truly diverse range of meaningful roles. We have volunteer prisoners mentoring other prisoners, as well as volunteers protecting the rights of young people, driving mobile clinics and promoting and delivering our needle exchanges.
Following feedback from service users, we have started opening on a Saturday to improve access to treatment.
We have completed our first training session on peer-to-peer naloxone, which is a programme aimed at teaching individuals how to recognise and respond to opioid overdoses.
Emma Sharp-Lau, a representative from SMART Recovery, visit us at The Beacon.
"The turning point was hearing a person share their life experience in a recovery café within the prison. I identified in that moment that it was possible to break the cycle of drug addiction and crime."
