The Recovery Collective

The Recovery Collective are a Lived Experience Recovery Organisation (LERO) that promotes recovery through creative arts and Recovery Community Development. We are an organisation made up of individuals with direct lived experience of substance use. Over the past eight years we have successfully held Scotland’s first alcohol free festival Recovery Connects in Queens Park Arena in Glasgow, our annual event brings together a wide range of partners including service providers, and recovery communities to deliver the annual event. The event aims to challenge the stigma surrounding addiction and recovery whilst creating a safe family friendly environment for both people in recovery and the wider community. Over the years the event has grown considerably from its first year with 400 people in attendance to the last two years where we have had over 2000 people in attendance. 

Moving forward The Recovery Collective aim to bring our work into communities particularly Renfrewshire as that is where we are based. Through a series of creative workshops, our workshops will run between 12-16 weeks and create a safe space where people in recovery can grow and develop and express themselves creatively within several areas – song writing, screenplay, creative writing, drama, sound production. Our workshops will be completely organic and directed by the people in recovery attending but will all conclude with a creative output or product ie: live event, video, podcast, play, book.