If drinking is interfering with your work,
you are probably a heavy drinker.

If your work is interfering with your drinking,
you are probably an alcoholic.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves
to others that in the end we become disguised
to ourselves.

Addiction is addiction, and not to be flung
out of the window by any man, but coaxed
downstairs a step at a time.

Fear will hold you prisoner,
truth will set you free.

If you want things to be different, perhaps
the answer is to become different yourself.

Treat your mind like a bad neighbourhood -
do not go there alone.

Anything not attempted remains impossible.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other
side of every fear is a freedom.

Many of lifes failures occur when people give
up without realising how close they are to
success.

Insanity: - doing the same things over and over
again and expecting different results.

The chains of addiction are generally too small
to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in
fear, but around us in awareness.

Addiction Recovery Services

The Basement Recovery Project is an award-winning, independent, community-based organisation which operates throughout Calderdale & Kirklees. We offer those in addiction to alcohol or drugs a new way of life, free from the need or desire to use any mood altering substance; we call this RECOVERY.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update

Following all COVID-19 secure guidelines we are currently open with limited capacity both in terms of staff availability and client spaces.

Our complete Freedom Recovery Programme is now being delivered across our hubs in addition to Here & Now and SMART Recovery groups (selected hubs).  Keep up to date with our timetables by visiting the Timetables Post where you can download your own copy.

We will keep you updated here and via our Facebook Page.

Our phone lines remain open and you can also contact one of the hubs via our Contact Page.

Please also join the Calderdale in Recovery and Kirklees in Recovery Facebook Groups to offer, and receive online support.

For more information on Coronavirus see https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Our Recovery Hubs

Halifax

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Huddersfield

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Dewsbury

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Todmorden

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TBRP Lastest Timetables for Calderdale, Kirklees and Mutual Aid

TBRP Latest Timetables 2021

Here are the most up to date timetables for Calderdale, Kirklees and Mutual Aid meetings. You can download and print your own copy or ask for one at your nearest recovery hub.
Windmill Community Residential Service Kirklees

New Kirklees Community Residential Service

The new Windmill Community Residential Service in Kirklees is the perfect setting to support detoxification, respite care, stabilisation on substitute medications, community re-orientation following inpatient detox and hospital stays and longer-term stage 1 supported living.
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Gilly’s Recovery Story

After being admitted to hospital for physical alcohol problems; I knew I couldn’t get better on my own. I registered with CRS to get some help and started groups in Todmorden...
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Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

It's Volunteers Week and what could be more appropriate than to be recognised at the highest level with a royal award - The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service. Well done and a huge thank you to all our volunteers, especially through the past 12 months of a global pandemic.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2021

Partnership goes green for mental health awareness week

WY&H HCP is funding 10 Green Social Prescribing Projects, which help connect people to nature to improve their mental and physical health. TBRP is regenerating a disused and neglected piece of land in an area of deprivation...
Contact TBRP Halifax, Huddersfield

Recovery Coach

Following new Public Health England funding to support recovery, health and wellbeing and developing recovery pathways within the criminal justice system, TBRP is looking to recruit a number of recovery coaches. Full or part-time positions. Closing date: Noon, 26th May 2021 ...
Advert for free Alcohol Brief Interventions Training

How to have a conversation about alcohol

"Having a word" at the right time - can be effective in making people reconsider their drinking behaviour and cut their alcohol intake significantly. Apply for this FREE Brief intervention training for alcohol misuse.
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Want to learn something new?

The Basement Recovery Project is looking for a number of recovery apprentices to learn all aspects of our recovery services. To be considered, all you need to do is express your interest on one sheet of A4 and email it to our head office in Halifax.
Kelly - 18 months sober from alcohol addiction.

Kelly’s Recovery Story

I was 11 when I first started drinking. I turned to alcohol as a coping mechanism from an early age to deal with childhood trauma...

Events have Moved

Recovery Timetables are now on their respective websites:

(During COVID-19, please check with the office as the schedules are changing regularly)

Calderdale Recovery Timetable

View timetable on calderdaleinrecovery.com

Kirklees Recovery Timetable

View timetable on kirkleesinrecovery.com

What people have to say about The Basement Recovery Project

Because of what I have learned through counselling, groups, meetings and the pre-recovery programme I know my life is going to change in a massive way.

I feel great! The old me is back. Life is good and I’m really enjoying myself.

Massive thanks to both Recovery Steps and the Basement Recovery Project, not just from me but my family too. You have given them their dad and Kev back.

Picture of Kev for his addiction recovery story for The Basement Halifax and Calderdale Recovery Steps

I am a different person altogether. I’m that person I was trying to be all those years ago.

If it wasn’t for The Basement Project I would still be at home, lying on the couch, out of my head on heroin.

Mentally I feel fantastic, never better. I don’t have any anxiety attacks or fear of not drinking again.

It’s thanks to TBRP and the Recovery Programme that has allowed me to make more sense of the nature of my addiction and how it has affected my whole life. After eighteen years of drinking, I’ve not had a drop since.

I can’t believe my life today. All that was promised to me by my key worker has come true.

This detox house has been a sanctuary for me, a life-line to get back my focus and direction.

I feel there is a purpose in life again and I’m happily enjoying it. It has much more meaning now.

90% of my friends are in recovery and I recently held the most sober wedding reception you will ever see.

I am the happiest I have ever been and more importantly, I have the ability to handle the bad times, which, previously, I couldn’t. I have peace and good balance. I have a good relationship with everyone in my life.

After talking to people at the Basement, I felt they knew more about me in five minutes than my councellor did after 12 months.

I have a future to live for, and I embrace it every day. I am currently on an Access course at college hoping to attain A ‘Levels that will get me to university where I’m hoping to do a degree course in criminology.

I’m alive, clean, in recovery and being a proper dad to my kids as well as working towards a better life.

I’ve not seen anything like this, they do incredibly important work and make a huge contribution to the community here in Halifax.

I think what they do here could serve as a role model for other organisations around the country.

Shadow Justice Minister Visits Halifax's Basement Project
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If you or someone you know has a drink or drug problem then contact us now to see how we can help.