The Recovery College are delighted to share our latest YouTube video! Next in our Day in the Life Of series, We interviewed one of our current students Lisa.   We asked her a series of questions about her journey here at the college. She discusses her initial thoughts about the college, her favourite course, and the CH...

Are you interested in Volunteering in your community... you can find out how by looking at our RC Hub! The RC Hub is a mental health, recovery, health and wellbeing resource library, for people living in the Black Country. It is ever-growing with new activities, leaflets, videos and other tools to help you. Access the Recovery College Hub here...

Help for Heroes: Veterans Moving Forwards The Help for Heroes, Veterans Moving Forwards course has been designed by Veterans for Veterans. This course is suitable for all military Veterans, regardless of when or where they served. By the end of the course, students should understand the true impact of their military experience and be equipped ...

The RC Hub is a mental health, recovery, health and wellbeing resource library, for people living in the Black Country. It is ever-growing with new activities, leaflets, videos and other tools to help you. Continuing in our Hub Highlights series, I'm going to show you an example of what you can find in the Accessing Social activities...

10th-16th June is Loneliness Awareness Week. The theme for 2024 is Random Acts of Connection, this theme is encouraging everyone to increase those simple, everyday moments of connection which help us feel happier and less lonely.   Loneliness is something that can affect every person at any point in their lifetime. Each exp...

Great news! We have several job positions available!  Deadline for Learning Support Assistant Roles is Friday 21st June. We have extended the Facilitator Role deadline to Friday 28th June. 3 x Facilitator Roles (Permanent, Full Time)1 x Facilitator Role (Permanent, Part Time)1 x Facilitator Role (12 Month Fixed Contract)2 x Learning ...

Next in our RC Hub Highlights series, I'm going to show you three resources from our next category - Accessing Help in My Community. You can access all of our resources for free, download and save for later! Through this series we are shining a light on the amazing resources you can access on the Hub to help you on your recovery journey. ...

For National Volunteer Week we want to express how grateful we are to our volunteers and how they contribute to The Recovery College. Darren is one of our volunteers, he has been with the college for a number of years, helping with co-production and as a volunteer co-facilitator. In April the marketing team sat down with Darren to di...

Louise has been a volunteer for The Recovery College for a number of years and she wants to share her volunteering journey and perhaps inspire others to volunteer too! In this fantastic video for National Volunteer Week you can read Louise's journey, how she discovered The Recovery College, why she enjoys volunteering and how she would describ...

A Day in the Life of..Donna English A Recovery College Volunteer

At The Recovery College, our Volunteers are an important part of the college. Earlier this year, we sat down with Donna to film a series of videos about her time at the college as a volunteer.  In our conversation with Donna we covered topics such as what she has learned as a volunteer, her previous volunteering experi...

It's the 40th anniversary of Volunteers Week! We are celebrating the amazing contributions volunteers make to communities across the UK and most importantly for the Recovery College. The celebration starts on the first Monday in June every year. It's a chance to recognise, celebrate and thank the UK's incredible volunteers for all they co...

Continuing with our series about our RC Hub, the next category is Learning about my mental illness.  The Recovery College Hub (shortened to RC Hub) is a mental health, recovery, health and wellbeing resource library, for people living in the Black Country. Every resource that is uploaded to our hub has you in mind. If you have any resourc...

Our Gardening students are working very hard to transform our green spaces, have a look at the photos below to see the difference two sessions can make!  Did you know?...At each of our bases we have a garden patch that students can access. If you would like to learn more please get in touch. Call 0121 543 4061 or email info@therecoverycol...

The Recovery College Hub (shortened to RC Hub) is a mental health, recovery, health and wellbeing resource library, for people living in the Black Country.  The next category we are going to dive into is Staying Safe.  All of our resources are separated into categories under the RC Hub tab to help you find what you nee...

Come and meet members of our friendly team on Zoom, this Friday from 1pm - 2pm. Here you will get to hear a bit about what we do, our ethos and the courses we can provide to help individuals with their recovery journey. We will also discuss where our bases are around the Black Country as well as our social media presence and handy website links. Th...

Co-production is one of the most important elements of our work at the Recovery College. Co-production means working together to do something different. It is about people with different views and ideas coming together to make things better for everyone. In the recovery college we take a co-production approach, meaning people with personal exp...

Throughout Mental Health Awareness Week We are hearing from different members of the team and how they find #MomentsforMovement in their lives. Today I'm going to write about my experience with running! In April, I travelled down to London to support some of my friends and family who were running the London Marathon. Watching thousands of people ru...

At The Recovery College, Our staff love to support and encourage you on every step of your recovery journey. For this Mental Health Awareness Week, our staff want to encourage you to find #MomentsforMovement.  Today's message comes from Lisa, one of our Facilitators, she shares how she finds Moments for Movement i...

Next in our RC Hub Highlights series, I'm going to show you four resources from the fourth category.. Living a Healthier Life. You can access each of these categories on The Recovery College Website under the RC Hub tab. You can download any of these resources and save for later! Through this series we are shining a light o...

 It's Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme for this year is Movement. #MomentsforMovement Throughout this week, 5 of our staff members will be exploring how physical movement has an impact on their mental health. Our first message is from The Recovery College Principal, Kerry Wilkes. Kerry writes - Movement and physic...