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by Annemarie Ward | Dec 18, 2022 | Annual Reports, News
Please find our annual report here. Also please do not hesitate to get in touch should you have any questions, suggestion, or directions for our work. This is a summary of our work for the year but we are happy to talk to in more detail anytime. You can contact us at...
by Annemarie Ward | Nov 29, 2022 | News
We’re very excited to let you know that FiLiA has been selected to participate in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2022, the UK’s largest match funding campaign. Last year, thanks to generous supporters like you, the campaign raised over £22 million for participating...
by Annemarie Ward | Nov 21, 2022 | Advocacy, News
Please enjoy reading even though it will be very disturbing for the comfortable, but comforting to the disturbed. We are pleased to launch this report at the end of our first full year as the UK’s First & only addiction advocacy service. With...
by Annemarie Ward | Sep 14, 2022 | News, Recovery Month, Recovery Walk
At last — Starting point is 12.00 at Ceremonial Way (next to the Civic Centre) on 17th September 2022. We will walk down Ceremonial Way, to the City and then back to the park for the rest of the day. Join the Recovery Walk Newcastle 2022 17th September 2022...
by Annemarie Ward | Aug 24, 2022 | News, Recovery Month
The History of the Purple Heart Way back in 2012 we created the purple heart of recovery as our charity’s emblem to represent the bravery & courage required & practiced daily, by people in recovery & their families, friends & allies. Honouring...
by Annemarie Ward | Jul 6, 2022 | News
If the Scottish Government is truly serious about their national mission to save lives, then we should make every effort to learn from the things that have happened in England over the past 13 years. Politics and ideology have dominated this field for too long, and I...
by Annemarie Ward | Jul 5, 2022 | News
FAVOR UKs Response, as you know we cant work for free anymore. “A human rights-based approach places people and their human dignity and rights at the centre of all policy and decision-making.” (Corra Foundation, 1st July 2022) We...
by Annemarie Ward | May 30, 2022 | News
We have often heard that those of us pushing for a legally challengeable right to access treatment, through our Right to Recovery Bill, should focus on the Equality Act 2010 instead, specifically the exclusion of those in addiction from the protection the Act would...
by Annemarie Ward | May 30, 2022 | News
Yeah click under here incase you’re under the illusion of hype & spin ! Click here to see our Mythbusting booklet Today the *final proposal* for a Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill was submitted to @ScotParl after the draft proposal earned...
by Annemarie Ward | May 29, 2022 | News
A closer look FAVOR UK suggested the establishment of Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs) as one or our 23 recommendations to the Scottish Government in 2019, in our report – Working together to challenge stigma & save lives but cautioned: ” We recommend...
