A Better Tomorrow CIC

A Better Tomorrow is a Community Interest Company; we are a residential abstinent recovery project that houses men who have decided to make a change having struggled with alcohol and or other drug addiction. We celebrated our 2nd birthday on 11th August 2016, it started with one house and one client. All this has been achieved without any external funding and through the hard work of our founders,

staff and volunteers. We have come a long way in 2 years, we have seen 90+ clients come and go, with only a handful of those not re-joining us following an unfortunate relapse. We now have a small office at Park Lane Centre in Woodside, Telford. We have developed our website and database, utilising the past life skills of our staff, all of who have come through their own recovery. We now work alongside several organisations such as Telford and Wrekin Council, Local drug and alcohol authorities, other recovery services, probation, police and prison services. Our aim to better our client’s lives, not only while with us, but more importantly, when they re-join society and move on. Definition of a Community Interest Company (CIC)…
“Designed for social enterprises that want to use their profits and assets for the public good’

This is what A Better Tomorrow is all about... We invest out time and dedication to our clients, which in turn will benefit the local communities by having our clients integrate back into the community in a positive way, through volunteering and eventually employment

We currently rent via private landlords, 4 bedroom properties which we fully furnish, including the internet and a computer, this means that we can literately take in clients who own nothing except the clothes on their backs. Our aim is to open 10 houses in Telford, this would enable us to help an additional 12 adult men with their recovery from alcohol and or other drug addiction. We also promote any skills the clients may have and are willing to teach other clients, we are looking to put future funds towards renting a kitchen and purchase supplies at Park Lane Centre to start a cooking project, where one of our clients will teach the others how to cook, we would also like to rent a space where we can start an art project, also run by one of the clients. In addition, we would like to start a fishing project and purchase all the tackle and licences required. We also play football once a week, and have been invited to play in other Recovery leagues around the midlands, some of the funds would go towards purchasing a kit and cover transport costs. Ideally in the future, we would like to be able to purchase a couple of minibuses to be able to transport the clients to the projects and days out that we would like to be able to do more of. As well as day to day support for each of the client’s 356 days a year, we actively encourage volunteering in local business and charities and help the clients get back into education through courses run by Telford and Wrekin Council’s Job Junction and have good links with the local college, Telford College of Arts & Technology (TCAT). Our clients can stay with us for up to 2 years, this means that we are heavily helping to reduce the short and long term impact on the ambulance services, NHS, police and prison services by greatly reducing crime, reducing the number of overdoses caused by addiction and benefiting the community when our clients volunteer locally therefore giving back to society.