WHAT WE DO
Lived experience is at the heart of our service with many of our staff and volunteers having started as a service user of TACT or other local support organisations. We understand when others don’t.
We are experts by experience, providing support with addiction recovery through one-to-one support, group support, peer mentoring, holisitic activities, volunteering and training.
Alongside the TACT addiction recovery service, we've developed Branches - our mental health and wellbeing support services - in collaboration with Telford and Wrekin Council commissioning teams and the NHS.
TACT AND BRANCHES OPEN ACCESS DROP IN SUPPORT
Our door is open Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm. We offer structured one-to-one and group support, AA and NA meetings and SMART recovery. We have a social room, a cafe, garden space and counselling rooms. We also offer holistic activities including gardening, arts and crafts, reiki and mindfulness sessions.
Local services hold drop-in advice clinics on-site including Telford and Wrekin employment support services, Trident Reach floating support services and Citizens Advice.
- For information about our addiction recovery and housing services click here
- For information about our other mental health support services click here
OUR STORY
TACT was founded in 2012 by Robert Eyers who experienced 20 years of addiction. During his recovery, Rob became aware of the lack of support available for service users in Telford. Rob started TACT voluntarily, securing a small amount of funding to deliver a SMART Recovery group and a Gardening group. This gave local people in recovery the opportunity to do something new and helped prevent them returning to their old lives.
Since then, TACT has continued to grow, successfully securing funding to develop and deliver services. Starting from a Nike satchel, Rob was able to move to a rented office and then to our current home - Strickland House - which is now owned by TACT.
