“Building Recovery Systems and Communities”

The Basement Therapeutic Community Project (TBTCP) is a safe, secure, practical and supported two stage residential accommodation for people who are in the early stages of recovery from alcohol and/or drug addiction.

The aim is to provide 24/7 recovery therapy, together with holistic support into stable accommodation, employment and/or training, enabling successful independent living in the community.

The TBRP Detoxification Centre is for those over the age of 18 who we have assessed to be low risk and who wish to participate in a physical withdrawal from alcohol and/or drugs, or who have a medical need to be stabilised in their alcohol/drug use. Clients should be motivated for change and want detox for the right reasons.

The project can accommodate those with limited mobility and wheelchair users, who are able to self-care. We are usually unable to cater for those who are Category 1 offenders.

Across our hubs, we provide weekly drop-ins for food to those who are socially excluded or homeless. Many are single, without dependent children, so they come bottom of the housing list. With low confidence and self-esteem, low skills, lack of employment, dependent on drugs and alcohol, poor mental and physical health and insufficient access to appropriate housing, they find it almost impossible to move on with their life.

In addition to The Breakfast Club we also offer advice from housing workers, routes into treatment for alcohol and drug dependency and a befriending service – for some, it is the only support they receive.

The Basement Project has a bespoke volunteer training programme that recognises “everyone is different”.  Many of our volunteers are recruited from our service users, and many have gone on to find employment externally and some within the Project itself.

Through our various programmes, volunteers (who have completed the Freedom Recovery Programme) now work as peer mentors to others coming through recovery, supporting our ethos of “the power of example”.

TBRP has developed a Community Champion Programme (we call our champions Recovery Builders) within the field of addiction services to promote our services to professional and public communities to help reduce the barriers and stigma faced by our clients amongst the wider general public.

Our Recovery Builders often participate in public promotions and stalls, private seminars and presentations and educational talks. We have provided many presentations for Huddersfield University and the West Yorkshire Police. If you would like to educate your workforce or just require more information about addiction, recovery and TBRP, please get in touch via our Contact Form.

Following our inception in 2006 The Basement Recovery Project (TBRP) has been at the forefront of pioneering new ways of delivering services and developing recovery communities in the Yorkshire area. Through utilising our model of ‘dig, develop and devolve’ TBRP aspires for people to become community assets, rather than community deficits, and we believe the environments we create are unique in supporting our ambitions for people. Today we would like to share our experience and knowledge with others to help to build communities and new systems across the country.