The Recovery In-Sight Centre is a new socially-orientated enterprise which offers training products and training services, self-help and peer support, research, and advisory services on practice and service development in the area of recovery. Our team are all academically-trained mental health service users and people who care for service users. We are supported by our Advisors, experts in the field of recovery and business management.

It is based on the ethos that people who have lived experience of mental health issues are more aware of what is needed to recover and more able to offer appropriate quality services to enable those who are in recovery, and in so doing, they also progress on their own personal journey of recovery.

In offering advice and research on practice and service development, and in offering training services to mental health teams and training and self-help services to service users and carers, this lived experience coupled with highly-trained and experienced trainers and researchers, The Recovery In-Sight Centre aims to progress the standard of care provided to all people in their recovery from mental distress.

As a social enterprise, The Recovery In-Sight Centre provides a vehicle for a new way of enabling people in the community. From the website design to the training materials, from the research undertaken on the effectiveness of the training and from work undertaken in practice and service development, to training the current staff as trainers, researchers and peer supporters - all team members in The Recovery In-Sight Centre have lived experience of mental health issues.

The Recovery In-Sight Centre won first prize for Best Business Plan in the University of Hertfordshire’s entrepreneurial competition FLARE, held at Tower Bridge in London in May 2009 and won first prize for Recent Graduate Award from the Federation of Small Businesses in June 2009 (see News).

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