To empower people with practical skills, tools and support so that they may manage their addictive behaviour and lead satisfying and meaningful lives.

• People make a choice to engage in addictive behaviours and can make a choice to stop.
• Everyone has the power of choice and can choose to change unhelpful or harmful behaviours.
• People are not their behaviours, so stigmatising language like ‘addict’ and ‘alcoholic’ is not used.
• People seeking recovery are empowered to choose what works best for them from a ‘tool box’ of methods demonstrated in meetings and also available online and in manuals.
• Participants are free to engage with any other services or mutual-aid groups which they find helpful; there is no one path to recovery.
• Once a healthy, positive and balanced lifestyle is achieved participants are free to move on and pursue other goals in life. Some may choose to volunteer and train to become Meeting Facilitators.

Through our Partnership Scheme, we work with most medium to large treatment providers across the UK as well as prisons, probation, rehab facilities, NHS and supported housing services. SMART Recovery Champions have helped to grow peer led SMART Recovery meetings, which in turn have helped their service users sustain the recovery gains they achieve within the treatment services.

The organisation is a Charitable Company, Registered with the Charity Commission 1160516 and Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator SC046247. The charity operates under its’ Articles of Association and a Memorandum of Agreement incorporated on 18 September 2014 and is governed by a Board of Volunteer Trustees. The Board of Trustees serve in a voluntary capacity and are drawn from various backgrounds to provide the expertise needed to guide the charity. Trustees meet regularly to guide the development, make strategic and policy decision, hold the Executive Director and staff accountable and manage any major risks to which the charity may be exposed. The Chair of the Trustee Board manages the Executive Director, to whom some powers are delegated to ensure the smooth running of the organisation. The Executive Director manages the staff team, meeting individuals regularly for supervision sessions and annual performance reviews. The staff manage volunteers, providing guidance, training and support as necessary. Our Central Office is located in Manchester and is run by the Business Manager with admin support.

A strategy review has been undertaken. Here is the final document that outlines our strategic objectives over the next few years.

UK SMART Recovery Strategic Plan 2023

UK SMART Recovery is committed to our meetings being safe, supportive and as effective as possible. We train and support meeting Facilitators and provide a range of materials to keep things on track, though as with any organisation, things can go wrong. This page describes how we handle concerns or complaints about any SMART Recovery meeting, volunteer or member of staff.

Complaints Procedure

• Complaints Policy and Procedure