UK Recovery Walk Sleep Over Blackpool 2017

Come and sleepover with us - Bring your own sleeping bags!

UK Recovery Walk Sleepover

Comfort Zone Community - North Shore Methodist Church Dickson Road Blackpool, FY1 2AP

will play host to a sleep out to help raise awareness of homelessness and recovery from addiction.

The event, held for the 3rd year, will take place on Friday 8th September 2017 and is organised by Faces & Voices of Recovery UK (FAVOR UK) in partnership with the addiction services in Blackpool.

The event seeks to raise awareness of substance use disorders and RECOVERY from addiction. The Charity Faces and Voices of Recovery UK's aim is to celebrate the achievements of individuals in recovery, and acknowledges the work of prevention, treatment, and recovery service providers.

Each September, and throughout the year, Recovery Month encourages recovery communities worldwide to spread the message that prevention works, treatment is effective, and Recovery from addiction is a lived reality in millions of people's life's.

We are a policy advocacy movement that is taking on issues of discrimination, social justice and service access.

We are also a public and professional education movement, intent on challenging stigma. We do this by delivering messages of hope to the cultures of addiction within our systems and treatment.

Please pay £10 to secure your place of which we will refund £5 on the day.

We have had significantly less funding in the last few years and regret to have to charge this small fee.