A radical approach to positively influencing life-changing drug and alcohol services.
What is a community voice?
The beating heart of the commissioning cycle.
Made up of people with lived experience of addiction, Community Voice is an innovative forum which gives people the opportunity to make real impact on positive and radical changes within drug and alcohol services in Essex.
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What does the community voice do?
Our forum meets every three months to:
Discuss the needs across the county
Review the research gathered by our team of community researchers
Define strategic outcomes
Decide what resources are needed to achieve these outcomes
Allocate funding to services
Need a ride to Community Voice? We’ve got you covered
We are pleased to offer free transport to our re-arranged Community Voice event on 21st March 2025 in Chelmsford. If you need a ride, we have minibuses available with pick-ups from Harlow, Basildon, and Colchester. Spaces are limited, so we encourage you to secure your seat by completing our booking form here.
To reserve your place on the minibus, please complete the booking form. If you have any questions, contact Sarah at sarah@essexrecoveryfoundation.org.
“We can do more and achieve more by working with people with lived experience”
Ben Hughes, Essex County Council
Who can be part of the Community Voice?
We welcome anybody who has an interest in what we are doing to make a radical change to the commissioning of drug and alcohol services in Essex. This tends to be:
“Everybody has an important role to play in changing the culture of commissioning. We will make sure that this is a space where everybody’s voice is heard”
Sarah Tinker, Radical Change Lead at Essex Recovery Foundation
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Join us for the next Community Voice
Our next Community Voice will be held on Friday 21st March, 2025 in at the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford.