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Fancy a Sober Spring?

Sober Spring is a three-month alcohol-sabbatical starting from 20 March.

Sober Spring is free, and you can sign up to receive weekly motivational emails with inspiration and advice from Millie Gooch and other Alcohol Change UK ambassadors, influencers and experts. It's the perfect follow-up to Dry January. It's a route to changing your relationship with alcohol long-term, a way of trying out life alcohol-free, and a chance to throw off the pressure to drink.

New handbook on Alcohol Assertive Outreach

Our new handbook illustrates the huge benefits that can be gained from effective alcohol assertive outreach. It is drawn almost entirely from the voices and experiences of people involved in assertive outreach in the UK and provides a framework for practitioners.

Alcohol Awareness Week 2023

The theme for this year's Alcohol Awareness Week is 'Alcohol and cost' and the week takes place from 3-9 July 2023.

There are so many ways for you to take part. Please sign up to our Alcohol Awareness Week newsletter so that we can keep you posted on ways to get involved and more.

Cycle for Alcohol Change UK

Join us to take on the London to Brighton Bike Ride on Sunday, 18 June to support Alcohol Change UK. It’s our first time being involved in this iconic event, organised by the British Heart Foundation and now open to all charities, and we’d love you to join us to make it a very special day.

Fundraising single

Charlie, aka Lulla HF, has released a single in support of Alcohol Change UK. Read more about his story, the track, and how to donate for a download on our blog.

Alcohol news

Impact of alcohol marketing on people in recovery

Alcohol Focus Scotland has published a new briefing highlighting that people with or at risk of an alcohol problem are at increased risk from alcohol marketing. Evidence indicates that the more someone drinks, the more likely they are to pay attention to alcohol cues, which, in turn, leads to increased cravings, creating a vicious cycle.

Is the government’s new funding for alcohol treatment across England enough?

The UK Government has stated that an extra £421 million of funding will be made available through to 2025 “to improve drug and alcohol addiction treatment and recovery.” Local authorities across England are to receive the funding for drug and alcohol treatment, with areas of highest need prioritised, the UK Government has announced.

However, findings from our research report, The Hardest Hit, published in 2018, showed funding of treatment services has suffered substantial cuts of between 10% and 58% in recent years - with one treatment provider saying local areas were “paring back to a skeleton service”.

The government said in the announcement: “The extra funding means that total local authority funding for treatment will have increased 40% between 2020 to 2021 and 2024 to 2025.”

Even though the increase between these time periods could be sound, this fails to acknowledge the scale of the cuts since 2010 and the re-tendering process for alcohol services which has led to delays in treatment.

Latest blogs

James' story

James struggled with anxiety and depression and began to use alcohol as a coping mechanism. Now, alcohol-free for five years, he is a support worker for others in recovery in Wales.

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Debs' story

After drinking regularly for over 25 years, Debs reset her relationship with alcohol by signing up to Dry January. Debs has improved her sleep and no longer has night-time worries.

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