Welcome to our next Weekly Bulletin. If you would like us to include something on our weekly news, please get in touch by emailing [email protected].
Unite for Recovery Campaign
Our Unite For Recovery Campaign started on Monday, to jointly walk around the world with the SMART Recovery Affiliates. As of this post going live, we have currently walked 949 miles out of 24,901. Please sign up here to help with our campaign. If you’d rather just donate, you can do this by donating here.
Online Meetings
The Friday National Online Meeting will not go ahead on 19/05/23. The Meeting on 12/05/23 will be cancelled if there is not a rail strike. If there is a rail strike, the meeting will go ahead.
Movement for Good 2023
The Benefact Group Movement for Good Awards is their annual programme of giving. This year they will be giving over £1million to charities and good causes and with your help, SMART Recovery could win. Please nominate SMART Recovery to win by completing the form here.
Research Just Published.
The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for family members impacted by another’s substance use: A systematic review and meta-analysis research has just been released. To read about this, please check out the following link here.
Online Film Premiere
“UK SMART Recovery would like to invite you to a special online premiere of CLEAN SLATE, a wonderful new documentary feature film about two blokes in a residential rehab facility who decide to make a film about their recovery whilst they are in treatment. Alternatively funny, heartbreaking and wonderfully inspirational. Hosted by our friends at RECOVERY MOVIE MEET-UPs.” It is on the 15th May at 6pm GMT. This link is all you need: www.recoverymoviemeetups.com/events
SMART in the North East
Jeni, as recently advised in the weekly news dated 21/04/2023, attended an event to let people know more about SMART Recovery and our services. Picture and feedback from that event can be found below.
“Great practical insight into SMART recovery”
“Very well explained, I found this really useful on my road to recovery”
“Never heard of this service before, amazing to hear how different it was from others”
“Interesting, but not needed for me, good to keep in mind though”
New Meetings
New Weekly SMART Recovery Meeting, Loughborough