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Leading figures from recovery communities & support services will present
Learn how the Recovery Movement can contribute to the development of the ‘5 th Wave in
Public Health’ & hear how we can work together to support recovery & wellbeing in our communities. Participate in the development of a Manifesto for the Recovery Movement & meet Recovery activists from all over the UK.
9.00-4.30 The UKRF Community Gathering 49 presenters from Services, Social Enterprises,
Creative Projects & Recovery Communities. 5 interactive Wellbeing Zones: exploring how we can Connect, Learn, Take Notice, Be Active & Give.
Exhibitions, Displays, Performance, Art, Poetry, Photography & Film. An opportunity to connect, share & learn.
5.30-7.00
Preview screening of the forthcoming documentary ‘Dear Albert’, premiering at film festivals later this year. Trailer: www.facebook.com/DearAlbertRecovery
7.30-Late The 2014 UK Recovery Month Party
Music, dance, performance, great food, good company & lots and lots of mocktails.
The 6 th National UKRF Event co-hosted by the Leicestershire & Coventry Recovery Communities
Professionals £90 Service Users £25
Some bursaries available to Community Members
Contact alistair@ukrf.org.uk
for further details & booking www.facebook.com/groups/UKRecoveryFederation/ www.coventryrecoverycommunity
www.facebook.com/DearAlbertRecovery

The Programme (Confirmed Speakers):
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-9.40 Welcome from Leicester & Coventry Co-hosts & the UKRF
9.40-9.50 The Good, the True & the Beautiful Alistair Sinclair, UKRF Director
9.50-10.35 Re-making ourselves & building recovery
Wendy Dossett Chester University, Mark Gilman PHE Recovery Lead, Martin Murphy
London, Kingston RISE
10.35-11.00 Finding assets & opportunities for personal responsibility within deficit-based systems
Peter Sheath & David Ryan Emerging Horizons/Futures
11.00-11.15 Miggy Angel Poet (performance)
11.15-11.45 Break/Connecting
11.45-12.45 Five Wellbeing Zones 20 presenters from Services & Recovery Communities
12.45-1.45 Lunch/Connecting
1.45-2.15 Fallen Angels Dance Theatre & Risen Dance Theatre (performance)
2.15-3.00 Recovery, Past & Future - Jon Long ‘The Bristol Experience’,
Tim Leighton Director Education & Research Action on Addiction, Vivienne Evans Chief
Executive Adfam, Mark Brown Editor One in Four Magazine
3.00-4.15 Five Wellbeing Zones 17 presenters from Services & Recovery Communities
4.15-4.30 Building a Recovery Manifesto & Moving Forward UKRF
5.30-7.00 Exclusive pre-release showing of the ‘ Dear Albert’ Film
7.30-Late The 2014 UK Recovery Month Party
All proceeds from this event will be shared by the Leicestershire & Coventry Recovery
Communities (administered by Dear Albert & the Coventry Recovery Community) & used to support community-led activity in the two counties.
If you’d like a display/stand in our Service Area and/or would like to sponsor one of the
‘Wellbeing Zones’ please contact richard.maunders@ukrf.org.uk
or hello@dearalbert.co.uk

Confirmed presenters:
Hosts: UKRF, Jon Roberts (Dear Albert) & Simon Morgan (Coventry Recovery Community).
The Main Arena:
Alistair Sinclair Director UKRF. Martin Murphy London, Dr Wendy Dossett Senior Lecturer & Co-Director of
CSARS Group, University of Chester , Mark Gilman Strategic Recovery Lead Public Health England, Kingston
RISE http://www.kingstonrise.org/ . Peter Sheath Emerging Horizon’s www.emerginghorizons.org/ & David
Ryan Emerging Futures. Jon Long, Tim Leighton Director of Professional Education & Research Action on
Addiction, Mark Brown Editor One in Four Magazine http://is.gd/VCqKO5 , Vivienne Evans CEO Adfam.
The Wellbeing Zones:
Being Active: Kingston RISE, Carl Cundall Manager Sheffield ARC, James McDermott RIOT. Dear Albert.
Yaina Samuels Founder/Director Nu-Hi Social Enterprise South Wales http://www.nu-hi.co.uk/ , Eleanor Youdell
SoBar Nottingham, Jacqueline Bennett Founder Beyond Recovery, Coventry Recovery Community.
Giving: Poet Miggy Angel, Michaela Jones Director In2Recovery http://in2recovery.org.uk/ , Mags Burrett &
Lexi West Lancashire Affinity Magazine www.facebook.com/AffinityMagazine . Paul Husband Photographer.
Nicky Mortlock ArtiPeeps Cambridge www.artipeeps.wordpress.com/ Paul Bayes Kitcher Director Fallen Angels
Dance Theatre www.fallenangelsdancetheatre.co.uk/ & Phil Ashby Risen Dance Theatre, RIOT Radio.
Learning: John Jolly CEO Blenheim, Andrew Brown Director Policy Influence & Engagement Drugscope, Elsa
Browne CO SMMGP, Carole Sharma CEO FDAP. Martin Smith & Sara Bains, Recovery & Wellbeing Leads
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nigel Tedbury Development Manager Service User Involvement and Recovery Lead Cranstoun, Joanna Manning National Lead Substance Misuse The Children’s Society
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UKRF.
Taking Notice: Vince Cullen
Buddhist Recovery Network, Elham kashefi PhD
AiWA
& Dr Joe Delaney
Meditation Group.
founding member of Fifth Precept Group &
Founding Director
Consultant Principal Lecturer
Charter member International
The Tara Project CIC. Chris Shaw
CEO
in Integrative Medicine. Leicester Recovery Buddhist
Connecting: Peter Moorhouse Area Manager North Wales ARCH Initiatives, Leigh Proctor Wales Coordinator
SMART UK, Trish McKitterick & Damien Grainer Emerging Horizons, Coventry Recovery Community. Damien
Prescott The Olive Branch Wirral, Tim Sampey CEO 'Building on Belief’ London http://buildonbelief.org.uk/ ,
Catherine Ingram CEO Derbyshire Voice & Mad Pride Organiser, Dear Albert. www.facebook.com/groups/UKRecoveryFederation/ www.coventryrecoverycommunity
www.facebook.com/DearAlbertRecovery